BioEngineeringChick

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I thought I was going to fall over so I had to get out. When I sat down my heart was racing with over exertion. Before the surgery I was severly overweight but a very active mother of two children under the age of six. I walked daily and had no co-morbidities... good blood pressure, no diabetes, no sleep problems, no depression/anxiety. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted now that I just sit and cry thinking that I have ruined my life with this surgery. I feel defeated and I wonder if the exhaustion and racing heart will ever go away. I have to start work next week and I don't know how that is possible the way I feel now. We are a single income family and I have no other choice but to go back to work... Please have any of you experienced this? Does it go away? Suggestions on what will help? Thank you so much!

You are so right! I did that for two days and I felt so good I went for a trip to Barnes abd Noble and went to church today. I did 6 loads of laundry and vacuumed the house with energy to spare! Thanks!

Thanks all! Turns out I was severly dehydrated so Iam doubling my water intake

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I thought I was going to fall over so I had to get out. When I sat down my heart was racing with over exertion. Before the surgery I was severly overweight but a very active mother of two children under the age of six. I walked daily and had no co-morbidities... good blood pressure, no diabetes, no sleep problems, no depression/anxiety. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted now that I just sit and cry thinking that I have ruined my life with this surgery. I feel defeated and I wonder if the exhaustion and racing heart will ever go away. I have to start work next week and I don't know how that is possible the way I feel now. We are a single income family and I have no other choice but to go back to work... Please have any of you experienced this? Does it go away? Suggestions on what will help? Thank you so much!

I am a 10/15 er...everytime i see a pizza commercial i hate myself for having surgery lol....i crave food but i am not hu gry. I think i hurt myself today. I was bending over a lot sorting laundry and moving the piles into the laundry room and when i bent ovet again it felt like my stomach was on fire burning on my right middle. When I laid down it felt better bur i dont remember hearing not to bend at the waist....did you?? I was trying to do too much but I didnt lift anything heavy... hopefully its not serious. The weight loss was great at first but has been slow going this week.

Hi Susan, I had my sleeve done the same day as you and my biggest problem is all of this gurgling... so annoying and loud. This def was not in my surgery packet or I might have reconsidered. A large part of my job involves taking business partners out to dinner. I already accepted that I would be ordering soup but having my tummy be such an embarrassment is scaring me so much! I don't want to get laughed at or made fun of anymore!