How Long til Hunger Nerve comes back?

[Beach Lover 1,084]

I am 4 months post op and do not have hunger pains as of yet. If I do not eat for a long period of time then my stomach will feel hollow (best way I can describe it) and obviously it is. However I do not have hunger pains.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Beach Lover

[JessO221 14]

Really? Did your surgeon tell you he did this?

The vagus nerve is usually left fully intact with VSG surgery.

Yep, he told me he was cutting the nerve but that it would grow back/regenerate within a few months and that is typically when my hunger pangs would start to return

[No game 14,437]

Yep' date=' he told me he was cutting the nerve but that it would grow back/regenerate within a few months and that is typically when my hunger pangs would start to return[/quote']

I find this interesting.., like I said typically the nerve is left intact. But with VSG the fundus is taken out which is the main producer of ghrelin

(Hunger hormone) Though the fundus is the main producer of this hormone other parts of the body produce it too and it will even out (become greater) after time because the other producers of it will kick up production....

All in about the same time (months to a year)

I did read some experimental stuff about the vagus nerve but... I've not heard of a doctor doing the procedure on a sleeve patient.

[JessO221 14]

I find this interesting..' date=' like I said typically the nerve is left intact. But with VSG the fundus is taken out which is the main producer of ghrelin

(Hunger hormone) Though the fundus is the main producer of this hormone other parts of the body produce it too and it will even out (become greater) after time because the other producers of it will kick up production....

All in about the same time (months to a year)

I did read some experimental stuff about the vagus nerve but... I've not heard of a doctor doing the procedure on a sleeve patient.

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*shrugs* All I know is what he told me lol

[PGee 318]

I'm 10 weeks out today.......felt hunger 4 days ago for the first time since being sleeved.

Have really enjoyed not being hungry.....I don't like feeling it again, not one bit LOL