5 DAYS POST OP AND STARVING

[irish princess 0]

Hi all you fellow sleevers!!! I'm on the other side now!!! :>)

I survived the surgery and all the lovely gas pain for the first couple days post. I am now 5 days post-op and have been following my clear liquid diet perfectly and have even been getting in about 40 grams of Protein per day. SF popsicles have been my lifesavers but I am starting to get a little tired of them. By 9:00pm I am absolutely starving... stomach growling, feel weak, and just want to eat some solid foods. Is this hunger pains or could it be acid? I take one Prilosec a day in the morning. I see my doc on Thursday for my first post op visit and am pretty sure that he will advance me to full liquids and pureeds. Will I still have these same feelings once I can advance to a little more solid food. I really am interested in hearing what all you expert sleevers have to say! I'm goin' out of my mind! Thanks!

[DrMommy 4]

Me too!! I am 6 days post op and I think I have figured out the difference between gas pains, acid pains, and hunger pains. For me, the hunger pains are a rolling sensations. I think our brains and our stomachs are completely out of whack. Our brains are smelling foods or monitoring the lack of calories in our bodies and asking for food (survival instinct) and do not realize our new, baby tummy's aren't ready to handle real food yet. It kinda sucks for me to be honest. But I am CRAWLING along until the soft phase when I feel I can al least try and satisfy my hunger with "real " food.

Hi all you fellow sleevers!!! I'm on the other side now!!! :>)

I survived the surgery and all the lovely gas pain for the first couple days post. I am now 5 days post-op and have been following my clear liquid diet perfectly and have even been getting in about 40 grams of Protein per day. SF popsicles have been my lifesavers but I am starting to get a little tired of them. By 9:00pm I am absolutely starving... stomach growling, feel weak, and just want to eat some solid foods. Is this hunger pains or could it be acid? I take one Prilosec a day in the morning. I see my doc on Thursday for my first post op visit and am pretty sure that he will advance me to full liquids and pureeds. Will I still have these same feelings once I can advance to a little more solid food. I really am interested in hearing what all you expert sleevers have to say! I'm goin' out of my mind! Thanks!

[irish princess 0]

Me too!! I am 6 days post op and I think I have figured out the difference between gas pains, acid pains, and hunger pains. For me, the hunger pains are a rolling sensations. I think our brains and our stomachs are completely out of whack. Our brains are smelling foods or monitoring the lack of calories in our bodies and asking for food (survival instinct) and do not realize our new, baby tummy's aren't ready to handle real food yet. It kinda sucks for me to be honest. But I am CRAWLING along until the soft phase when I feel I can al least try and satisfy my hunger with "real " food.

I am soooo glad to hear that you feel the same way. I think it SUCKS too. I keep telling myself that it will get better and honestly, I thought by now, that I would be feelin' a little better than I do, but I know from what everyone says that after you can start eating soft foods, it will be a brand new day! I never thought I was gonna look forward so much to some cream of wheat but to me that is gonna be like having a huge juicy steak!!!! Best of luck to you. Hang in there!!!!

[Rainydayz 27]

It gets better when you start pureed foods. I was starving the first week too. I even cooked ribs for the 4th of July and couldn't eat any! Boy it smelled good! But when I started mushy foods I was able to get satisfied. I'm almost 5 weeks out now and the hunger is a whole lot less. Some days I have to be reminded to eat.