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I think Grammy is just poking at the protein shake container with a sharp stick, Melissa. They can be difficult to deal with when you can't have anything else. I am sitting here queasy from my eleven millionth freaking protein shake so I am in total sympathy with her.

You might need a different PPI. The same ones don't work for everyone

WalMart has some protein powder that has 60 grams per scoop. You could try that.

I agree about the smells. I have always had a really good sense of smell, but now I feel like I could compete with a hound dog. I feel like I can pick out the undernotes of what I eat. I really liked the Unjury chicken soup prior to surgery, now the smell makes me feel queasy. I told my husband just to put it on the shelf where I won't accidently open it.

I had thyroid surgery a few years ago and they did the same thing to me. It hurt way worse than the surgical site. I couldn't even talk for days. I had to ask for pain medicine with hand signals. I think it lasted about a week, getting better every day. I know how much that hurts. Ask the doctor if there is some lidocaine spray or something they can spray in there to deaden the pain.

Totally normal. I take two sugar free chewable fiber pellets each day. Equate brand, fruit flavored. No fiber, no go.

I was sleeved 2/4/13. For the first week, I felt like I was swallowing air with every sip. I tried various ways of sipping but every time a big bubble of air would seem to go down first. I spent more time burping that week than I can remember doing the whole rest of my life. When I started being able to take more normal sized swallows of liquid, it mostly abated.

Powdered peanut butter? That sounds wonderful! I am going to look that up online since I am 2.5 hours away from a Whole Foods.

My sympathies. It sounds like you really went into a shame spiral over your sugar binge. I would think that if it was going to be really damaging to your sleeve, you probably would have felt it then. And no dumping? At least you didn't have that to add to your shame load. It sounds to me like you have picked yourself up and are ready to get back at it. I am only 9 days out and fear keeps me from straying off the path right now, but I'll say it again: if we had good self control we would not have needed our sleeve to help us. Thank you for sharing. I know all these stories will help me when I get there. I hope you have a better day tomorrow.

My surgeon ordered a reasonable pre-op diet. In the manual he handed out to patients, it was supposed to be for one or two weeks prior to surgery. I followed it (more or less) for one week before. Another girl in my office did not even pretend to follow it. Two days before surgery, I saw her at her desk eating a huge pile of hot wings, french fries and drinking a huge coke. Her surgery was not cancelled and neither of us had to be converted to open incision.

I have had a partial thyroidectomy and I take 50mcg of Synthroid a day. I was sleeved 2/4 and in the days since, have lost 11 pounds. I think that is comparable to what most others have lost.

To the original poster: no judgment from me. I am only 9 days out and haven't even been cleared to eat solid food and I have felt sorry for myself from time to time. Fear of harming my sleeve is keeping me in check at this point. And my dreams are small. As I have mentioned several times, I think I would be satisfied by a cracker or a bite of scrambled egg. When I am cut loose to eat food again, it will be much harder. We all have already surrendered and admitted we cannot sufficiently control ourselves. That is why we all got the surgery, to have control imposed on us to a certain degree. We each have to make our own way. Thank you for sharing your bump in the road. It helps the rest of us following behind you know where to look for danger.

Did your surgeon do a liver biopsy as a part of your surgery? If so, maybe the cyst is related?

I am only 9 days post op so I am a long way from worrying about this but this thread has answered a question for me. My daughter was over here yesterday with her baby who is just 5 months old. She is doing a fantastic job taking her baby weight off but she still has at least 25 pounds to go. She proudly told me she squeezed into her size 6 jeans today. I just smiled even though I found that doubtful. Size 6 back in the day was obviously much smaller. The last time I weighed 125 pounds, I wore a size 10. So this thread has turned out to be an educAtional experience.

How far post op are you? The first few days after it is critical that you DO cough to avoid pneumonia. But obviously you don't want to cough so hard you hurt yourself. I agree with JerseyGirl, I would probably at least call the doctor for this problem.

Yep. I had that, too. I had surgery exactly one week before you. It lasted a few days and has now gone away. It may be your blood pressure being elevated due to the pain. If it really scares you or doesn't go away with a couple of days, you could call the doctor. I felt it especially when I was laying down. Like it was in my neck. Like listening to the ocean through a shell.

I am 8 days post-op. I had myself a minor meltdown on day 5 because I wanted a cracker and I couldn't. Not rational. But I think we have to keep in mind that in the first couple of weeks after surgery, we are trying to heal our bodies on almost no calories. Even for those of us blessed to not feel stomach hunger, we are still depriving our bodies of sustenance for the first time in our lives. If anyone has ever watched Survivor, those folks all go a little cookoo from hunger. If you look at it like that, it would be strange if we didn't have moodiness or weepiness during this time. Luckily, I am at home and not at work, where my secretary would certainly slap me silly if she caught me weeping over a stupid, damn cracker.

My blood pressure went high enough for them to give me medicine too. They put a lot of fluids in me and that had a lot to do with it. My blood sugar also shot up high enough that they gave me a shot of insulin. Within 24 hours, my blood pressure was normal and my blood sugar normal.

I agree with you 30 years! That pre-op diet that I thought was so miserable seems like a feast now! I almost think they make us do the pre-op diet to ease us into the reality of post-op.

I know my doctor's pre-op diet was much easier than most. Shakes for two meals and 4oz lean meat, 1/2 cup starch and 1 cup veggies for dinner. If a snack is necessary, another shake. Even though the patient manual said everyone had to do the pre-op diet for one or two weeks prior to the surgery, when I went to my final appointment with the NUT pre-surgery, there was a man sitting next to me who was having surgery 4 days later. He mentioned to the NUT that he guessed he better get started on the pre-op diet. She told him to just do the best he could. I tell you this because I obsessed terribly over the pre-op diet. I was so hungry and I was convinced that if I deviated in the least, I would ruin the whole thing. I had visions of waking up and being told that the surgery could not be done because of my big fat liver. It made me miserable. I have heard the stories about surgeries that were not done, but I have never met anyone that it has happened to. In retrospect, I cannot believe that if I had eaten a string cheese or a couple of extra ounces of protein that it would have made a difference.

All the old tummy feelings seem to mean something else now. I guess we have to learn what the new meanings are.

How far out of surgery are you? They gave me some blood thinners in the hospital.

I wondered if you were on a really restricted liquid diet and that was why you were starving. The doctor will probably love how many liquids you are getting in. I tend to believe the other posters who say acid feels like hunger. I know from my own experience that not all PPI meds work on all people. Sometimes you have to try a few before you find the right one. I seem to be fine with Prilosec but it does not work for my husband. He has to use Protonix. Maybe your PPI is not working.

I wondered if you were on a really restricted liquid diet and that was why you were starving. The doctor will probably love how many liquids you are getting in. I tend to believe the other posters who say acid feels like hunger. I know from my own experience that not all PPI meds work on all people. Sometimes you have to try a few before you find the right one. I seem to be fine with Prilosec but it does not work for my husband. He has to use Protonix. Maybe your PPI is not working.

30 years, Is there anything you are allowed to have that appeals to you?