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I regretted the surgery the few weeks out also. Now I'm 6 months out and I don't miss food, I don't crave food and I look at food as a fuel for my body instead of something I need psychologically. I lost 62lbs, feel AMAZING about myself and my confidence has skyrocketed. I'm with everybody else who says hang in there. Surgery is a very emotional thing. Your body is all out of whack from the changes going on and you just need to give it time and give the surgery a chance.

2 months out of surgery and I have esophageal stricture and kidney pain that ER docs ruled out kidney stones and infection. Both are new diagnosis so I haven't been to specialist to even see if it's related to surgery yet but I was curious if anybody had either of these problems after surgery??????

I have Reglin I think it's called? For stomach and nausea, a nausea patch and ondansetron so three different kinds of nausea meds. I felt fine the first 3 weeks I'd say but now it's all day and comes in waves. It's getting to the point where I don't even want to eat because I know one bite and I won't be feeling good. It's impossible to be in a social setting right now. I hope it gets better I just want to feel normal again...I'm a slow loser also so right now I'm regretting surgery a little bit.

I have an app with him next week. Any idea what could be wrong?

First couple weeks after surgery I felt amazing, everything went down well the more I graduated into soft foods. Lately though the last two weeks I'd say everything I eat I take a bite and get nauseous. I throw up probably twice a week and not because food is stuck (trust me had that happen I know how that feels) or just I'm full it's literally my first bite and just because....I didn't read anything about this being a side affect, is this normal???

I'm glad somebody can relate to me! You're right the skin is easy to hide I have some amazing jeans from Kohls that suck everything in lol! My boobs are the main thing, I am a low BMI sleever, now 180s so my boobs were always my thing I didn't like being heavy but I loved how huge they were lol so I miss them but I am def going to try some of those natural simulators hopefully I can get some fullness back.

This is great advice thank you!!!! I know I can't do anything right now anyway it's just frustrating

I am only a month out of surgery, 25lbs down since then but my body is already changing and I have mixed feelings about it.. I obviously love the smaller figure already but my excess skin around my belly from carrying my two 9lb babies is getting wayyyy worse and my boobs have already went from a D to barely a C in just that small amount of weight loss. I'm almost not excited to lose more weight because I know my boobs will just get smaller and my stomach will just get worse. I can't afford any surgery right now because we are in the process of buying a new house so I am stuck being discouraged about my new body

omg crackers and cheese sound amazing! Lol it's TOM and I want everything. Usually this is where we have chinese food twice in one week but as good as general tso chicken sounds right now I'm pretty sure it's not on my liquid/mushy diet! Lol you are right nobody said it was going to be easy, only thing that keeps me going is the 17lbs I already lost

When I was in the hospital for the dehydration the Dr. let me have eggs. They went down fine so I have been having things like eggs, burrito insides and cheez-its because they dissolve easily in my mouth. My biggest obstacle is the hernia repair make my opening to my stomach the size of straw so if I don't chew things good enough or take a big bite of even apple sauce it gets stuck and hurts like heck. I actually have some b-12 dissolve pills so I'll try it and see if it works. Thanks!

Happy I can relate to somebody lol. I don't enjoy food at all right now and I just hope it gets better. Like you said I want a meal, a small meal but eating something without feeling lousy after would be nice. I am tired too, literally ALL THE TIME! I had to take a nap every day since surgery which was 2 weeks ago today. My husband went back to work Monday and I'm struggling with fatigue and taking care of our two toddlers. I just don't have any energy to run after them and keep the house up so currently my house is a mess. I hope it gets better for us!! The doc at my post op app told me I had to stay on full liquids and some mushies like eggs for another 4 weeks but I just can't wait to eat something normal I feel like an outcast when the rest of the family has to cook something different for me when everybody else has a steak lol.

I'm two weeks post op and having a hard time with this new stomach. I can't drink anything without getting instantly full and then I feel either nauseous or lousy when my stomach is full. I was already in the hospital for severe dehydration which IDK how because I always have Water next to me. I can't get enough Popsicles or water because I am SO THIRSTY! Before surgery I guzzled water all day, water bottle after water bottle. In 2010 I had 3 surgeries to get rid of a kidney stone the size of a ping pong ball so ever since then I make sure I get enough water. Now it seems impossible since more than a tiny sip makes my hernia repair and sleeve upset. Because I'm taking in less water my kidney stones are back! ughhhhh what did I do to myself? Thanks for listening to me rant and rave lol. Hope it gets better from here

Hope everybody is doing well! I had my post-op appointment today and I was kindof bummed when he told me I had 4 more weeks of liquid diet! I thought I could do purred now but guess not. Other than that I am feeling good and down 17lbs a week and a half post op plus the week of liquid diet so feeling good

Lol they were suppose to leave the monitor in me. It was a device that stayed in for a couple weeks to measure how much acid comes up to see if I needed my hernia repaired also. The device was a little bit bigger than a pill and it was suppose to just come off my esophagus and digest but it got stuck in my hernia repair then bounced around my sleeve causing some pain.

I had mine St. John on Moross Rd. Good because I didn't have a roomate on the surgical floor which made my stay really easy.