The truth about GRHELIN!

[Filosophia Scandinavia 1]

LilMissDiva, you are a clever girl. Thank you!

I just talked with my surgeon 10 minutes ago, booking the operation. And I asked about this.

He told me, it was true.

That other hormones- who were located in the intestines, and had to do with hunger, did increase over time, when the ghrelin decreased.

But not in the first 18 month. And in the first 18 month, you loose almost all of the excess weight.

It was almost impossibel to gain weight again after the 18 month, because of the small stomach.

BUT, he said, a lot of the patients didn't experience the same hunger as before the operation.

Just like you decribe!

Yeah, that made me calm, It is not like before the operation. Something has changed.

I like the way, you decribe your hunger. I would simply LOVE AND WORSHIP that missing feeling forever.

Just 30% less of the hunger, I have know, would help me to loose weight.

I understand, why you consider the plication. The pressure receptors works fine in a sleeve plication. So why cut the stomach out? You cant cut the ghrelin out. Do the decrease in ghrelin work just as fine in a plication?

Anyone?

I really feel, that I have made the right choice - I am so thankful that I found this forum

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

I definitely am not hunger-free after my sleeve. I still feel hunger (real hunger, not head hunger) 3-4 hours after I eat, depending on what I had and how much. Yesterday I was at the clinic all day and didn't have time to eat for about 5 hours in a row....I definitely felt it. Even if I didn't have belly hunger, I was definitely starting to get a bit of a headache, probably from low blood sugar, so I would've noticed it either way. I would say, however, that 1) that hunger is less intense than the kind I had before surgery - it's a lot easier for me to make healthy choices when I'm hungry 2) I get satisfied much faster. So yeah, I'll feel hungry, but it's not as bad, and once I've had a Protein Bar, I'm good to go - whereas before the surgery I would've needed much more food.< /p>

[mp8btpc 33]

So if we keep sipping on Water periodically throughout the day it will keep the pouch full and give the pressure receptors of the stomach the sensation of having had a meal?

I feel hunger it is easily satisfied now though so I don't stress about it. It seems the hungrier I think I am...the less I usually get down before I am full lol.

[lunarose 97]

Oddly enough I feel more hunger now then I did pre op. Pre-op I rarely ever felt hunger but then I also rarely ever felt full now I feel both.

[Filosophia Scandinavia 1]

It is interesting to hear someone who IS hungry after the operation. Even in a different way.

Perhaps a little optimistic, I hoped for no hunger the first half year. But mayby I am lucky. Will see.

ABOUT WATER

Mayby I have misunderstood it. BUT:

My surgeon told me, that fluids will not stay long in the stomach, it wil go directly through

- it is not long enough in the stomach, to produce the needed pressure.

Something solid will do it.

It is also so important not to drink calories, but we all know that

[NtvTxn 1,262]

I'm one of the lucky ones that never experiences true hunger, EVER. I was constantly hungry with my band. I would eat, be "full" for about an hour and then here came the hunger, AGAIN, once that lovely food fell through the craptastic pouch that the band offers. I know not every sleeve patient loses all of their hunger, but those patients are few and far between all of us that have lost all of our hunger.

I'm with you Tiff....I haven't experienced TRUE hunger since my surgery five months ago. My "new" hunger as I call it, is an empty feeling I get once in a while. I can eat or not eat, but I will feel empty and know that it's time for some nourishment. It doesn't happen every day, and I don't know what triggers it, but it isn't an uncomfortable feeling....just empty. Strange. I hope it stays like this forever!