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Why are some people still hungry after their surgery? I thought that you no longer produced grehlin which makes you hungry. Is this just for the first bit while on liquids only?

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I don't fully understand this either. I was sleeved 2 days ago, and I'm hungry, My stomach is growling 'out loud'. lol BUT I don't want to eat. I don't even want to drink, but I'm definitely on the hungry side.

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Sometimes what we have always perceived as "hunger" is actually acid churning in the stomach, you may need a PPI like Prilosec to calm it down.

I know my tummy was incredibly noisy the first month or so out and it always made me thing "Gee I'm hungry" but I would stop and evaluate the actual sensations and realize I was NOT and was just using the old clue of "tummy rumbles" as a trigger to eat. I was actually NOT hungry and DID NOT want to eat, I was simply sliding back into an old BAD learned behavior.

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Sometimes what we have always perceived as "hunger" is actually acid churning in the stomach, you may need a PPI like Prilosec to calm it down.

I know my tummy was incredibly noisy the first month or so out and it always made me thing "Gee I'm hungry" but I would stop and evaluate the actual sensations and realize I was NOT and was just using the old clue of "tummy rumbles" as a trigger to eat. I was actually NOT hungry and DID NOT want to eat, I was simply sliding back into an old BAD learned behavior.

Oh thanks for this! They did give me a PPI, but I didn't want to worry about taking that until a few more day. I didn't realize that would help with that. I was just thinking of reflux, and I didn't expect to have reflux until I added more solids. I'll take that right now!! Thanks again!

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Yes it is common but not universal issue with most sleevers.

The stomach is reduced in size and the acid pumps are thereby reduced but the amount of acid that is produced by those remaining pumps can sometimes tend to produce too much for the small space and make the sloshing feeling we confuse with hunger.

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