When Did You Feel Yourself?

[gmanbat 5,889]

is this normal?...

i just talked with my doc yesterday about getting the sleeve... i imagined being able to get back to bodybuilding well before 8 months out... (i'm a female, i know my comment there makes it sound very masculine, but i assure you folks i'm a girl. lol) anyway.. wow.. :/ if and when i get sleeved, i want to return to exercising as soon as humanly possible. how long are you usually weak like this? i don't mean that as offensively as it came out... (i don't mean it to be offensive at all, honestly).. just shocking that you can't do crunches or situps and it's 2/3 of a year!

I am not offended at all. I have been wondering about it myself. While considering it tonight I think I figured it out.

I went through 45 external beam radiation treatments in 2009 for prostate cancer. I know it weakened my hip muscles, that was evident early on. I believe it weakened my lower stomach muscles as well. As I exercise it is getting better, just very slowly.

So my experience may very well not be yours as I believe the soreness is not related to the sleeve.

[deltadawn817 106]

I didn't read what everyone else wrote. I have had two c sections and it is sorta the same but with VSG I was TIRED more than with my c sections. I would say you are will be fine just as long as you can nap ... heck I feel asleep every time I sat down and I am never like that. I took me a whole 6 weeks to not be exhausted.

[healthiermom 27]

Thankyou all, i feel much better about my upcoming surgery,.i start pre-op diet tomorrow whoo-hoo!