Surgery in a few hours can't believe it's happening

[Sajijoma 1,324]

Congratulations and good luck!

[Cdominguez 26]

Thank you so much everyone just having a hard time with the soreness in my belly

[Cdominguez 26]

Also I can't tell if I'm full or not how can you tell?

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Don't even worry about "full" now. Nothing is normal now. Your stomach is terribly swollen. It's nothing like it will feel in a month or three or six or twelve months. It's much smaller, traumatized, with severed nerves and blood vessels, newly stapled and newly stitched. It's freaking out!

For now, concentrate on taking small sips of Water all day long.

Also, as long as you're on a liquids-only diet you likely won't ever feel full. Only when you start eating solid foods (and your stomach is healed a bit) will you start feeling the restriction of your smaller stomach.

But your body's diminishment of ghrelin (which was produced by the part of your stomach they just removed) means you shouldn't be feeling real hunger right now either.

Seriously -- this is a time for recovery from major surgery, not trying to identify what "full" feels like.

[Cdominguez 26]

Thank you so much I just wanted to make sure I'm doing everything right ☺️