Is it just me or is this not as easy as it seems?

[myrori 55]

I had lots of surgeries prior to VSG, so I knew abdominal surgery was going to be painful. The thing I was not prepared for was the gas they used to open the field as prior surgeries were open. Now if I had to compare gas pain to the pain of open abdominal surgery, there is no comparison. The gas is more like an annoying left over pain, where as the pain from the large incisions was intense and required lots of narcotics and recovery time.

I went in knowing that I had to go through the discomfort to achieve the goal of weight loss I so deeply desired.

That frame of mind keep me from focusing on every pain and new uncomfortable feeling I had after the surgery. I would just say " and this too shall pass, and I will loose weight!"

By Day 7 this will all be just a thing in your past and you will be well on your way to your weight loss goals!

[climbthestairs 0]

I also dont think this has been easy at all! I had surgery on 26 April and 1 May I was in the Emergency room and diagnosed with dehydration and pneumonia. I am 3.5 weeks out from surgery and just starting to feel better. Its been a very rough road for me and I did not know it would be this hard. I am still on liquid diet, its been more than a month now including the pre-op diet. I was told to start on cottage cheese and yogurt and then after another week of that to add tofu and eggs. I also had to give myself 2 weeks of Heparin injections (3 times per day) and my tummy is sooo black/blue and severely bruised. I really do look like I have been in the boxing ring..and lost!

I read so many posts about people feeling great a few days after the surgery...but that has not been my experience. I lost 5lbs last week and my doctor said I should have lost 7. So, if I am already not loosing enough and only on liquids then it really makes me scared to eat food! Is that only going to slow my weight loss down??