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I got my surgery done on April 28th and wasn't allowed to drink anything until the night after. Once they started giving me liquids I didn't know if I was hungry or if I was just gas pains. I'm home and 3 days after and I'm taking my stomach medicine which is helping me pass gas. However I'm still not sure if the stomach noises in having are from hunger or just because.

Any advise would help. Xoxo

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You are only four days out and probably still on full liquids. Your tummy is mad and swollen. The gas and tummy noises will last for a while. I said before that mine sounded like a dinosaur fight for two months.

I did not feel hunger until I was well into regular food, after my tummy had healed and the swelling went down. Still, it is the size of a small banana, a bratwurst sausage - something like that. It really helped me to see the images when I had my one year barium swalo follow-up. I could actually see that my sleeve was small and narrow and shaped like that small banana.

If I am eating properly with my Protein first, then I typically am not hungry again for about three hours. At fifteen months, I still weigh and measure and log. There is a scientific principal that helps me with this: You cannot control that which you do not measure.


swallow......I can spell but I cannot type.

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6 months out and if I feel hunger, drink Water first to see if it is actually hunger or if I am just thirsty. The gas does take some time to get completely out and will sound like you stomach is growling but probably not hunger growls. I also did not "feel hungry" till about 2 or 3 weeks into eating real food.< /p>

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I'm thinking it's more gas and thirst than hunger...I personally didn't really feel any true hunger until I was fully healed and started working out. The more I worked out, the more I felt hunger...made sense, according to my nutritionist. Of course you don't want to go overboard, and once you're post-surgery, you pretty much can't really, as long as you follow instructions and directions from your surgeon/nutritionist.

I hope this helps, and I wish you very best success!!!

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