10 days out fluids and exhaustion

[iowagirl 0]

I am 10 days out from my sleeve. Took me a week to lose the 15 pounds of IV Fluid pumped into me and the scale finally moved down from surgery weight by 6 pounds! Yay! I can swallow all my pills without breaking them open, get all my Protein and liquids in and walking well. BUT.......

Starting about day 5 I could drink liquids like before I had surgery - 8 ounces takes 15 minutes, 20 minutes max, same with Protein shakes. This is not gulping or guzzling - I just take a normal drink, set the bottle down, swallow and in a couple of minutes take a drink again. I have no feeling of restriction, no discomfort, no chest tightening nothing......is this normal? Can we stretch our sleeves with liquid? My surgeon says to consider myself lucky that I'm one of a few who have no problems with fluid intake and drink away - that restriction really comes with food. Anyone else like this with fluid? Can it hurt my sleeve in any way?

And the exhaustion! The last 3 days have been terrible. I get up and need a nap within 4 hours. Does it get better the longer out from sugery I am...or perhaps when I can start on mushies and actually get some food in? Not to mention the emotions! Heck I feel like I could literally jump out of my skin....nervous, anxious - thank god for Xanax....LOL...or I would be a mess. Handling it ok but wanting these feelings to go way far away......and soon!

Feel free to tell me I'm paranoid.....or wierd....just tell me something.....I can take it:cool0:!

[mp8btpc 33]

First off you and I are in agreement. THANK GOD FOR ANTI-ANXIETY DRUGS POST OP! i took about a half of one each night the first 12 days or so. I have since only taken two halfs the last 2 weeks. It helped me sleep a lot more soundly a few nights ago. I woke feeling really refreshed.

I think everything your talking about is not out of the norm. Everyone experiences things differently but some things are very common. I too was anxious about leaks and just in general the first couple weeks. It has gotten better the next couple weeks. I was moody from the post-op diet restrictions, lack of calories and I unlike others did not get all my Protein very often the first two weeks. I am getting it now through food. My energy level creeped up once on mushies. Now that I am treading lightly into normal foods it is getting stronger but if I have a day that I overdue it...you can bet the next day I can feel it. I am taking my Multivitamin but it is a huge chewable that I would like to chuck in the trash. I may just bite the bullet and get some of those Gummy kind everyone talks about. I am also taking a sublingual B12.

I started my exercise this week and I already feel more energized just from that activity. I get tired after the high wears off but it is good for the psyche also.

I'm rambling. You sound normal to me. I don't know about the intake of the fluids, but if your doc says it's fine then I don't see why not.

Take Care!

[wannalise 15]

It is so funny that we all come up with the same worries and questions. Your sleeve is not stretched. You will feel PLENTY of restriction soon enough. A lot of the initial restriction that people talk about with fluids is swelling. I had a hernia repair while they were in my guts and that left my internal self very swollen and I was absolutely convinced that I would never be able to drink a satisfying drink again, but as the swelling went down the drinking part of things really leveled out.

I too needed a little calm me down time with xanax. My first day home from the hospital I paced the hallway for hours while my mom and boyfriend just stared at me, then I took probably 6 baths hoping that would calm me down, by the end of the day I called my doctor and by that night I was very relaxed and maybe even floating a little.

But....to respond to your original worries you are lucky with regards to Fluid, and normal with regards to exhaustion. Be nice to yourself and allow yourself time to heal. your body has been through a lot!

Best of luck to you!

Anna

[sleevegenie 0]

Completely normal, when i first had mine done i was convinced that all they did was cut me but didn't do the sleeve because there was NO restriction, until i ate my first egg, OMG then i believed i had a sleeve, liquids go right through you, real food will fill you up. I was also exhausted so i took an Iron pill which you should take with vit c and i made a big difference. So relax, and give yourself time to heal, you'll be fine jeani

[sleeve 4 me 910]

Today is my 14 days out and the FIRST day I feel normal again. I went to my post op appt just YESTERDAY and came home and went to bed, I could only go out every few days for an hour at the most, I was so tired. I don't know what happened from yesterday to today, but I haven't laid down once today WHOO HOO! Everyone here kept saying it will get better with time, and it did :thumbup:.