How long before you felt normal again?

[destiny_77 43]

I had my sleeve on the 28th. I have been very compliant with walking, choking down my crushed meds, and sip sip sipping all day long but I feel so out of my zone!! My stomach feels hungry but I'm not hungry at all. I still have gas but was able to finally pass some last night which felt wonderful. I'm just wondering how long it will be until I am back up and at it like before or better than before. Oh!! And the lethargy!! I am extremely tired all day but I still make my self get up and walk. Any advice from those of you who are newly sleeved and hadn't forgot about what you went through in the beginning but been sleeved long enough to say when you started feeling like your old self again. TIA!!

[HopeandAgony 566]

The first 2 weeks for me were very rough. I was miserable. The 3rd week I started to feel better. I didn't feel fully 100% myself with no residual pain until week 5. I had a ton of scar tissue from 4 prior abdominal surgeries so I had some extensive lingering pain.

Weeks 3 to 5 weren't horrible, I just wasn't 100% yet. Week 5 was a life changer for me. I am now almost 7 weeks post op and better than ever.

Hang in there. It's a rough go for a while. Keep drinking. Best advice I have.

[shriner37 249]

Everyone is different. I started to feel better about day 4 post surgery, and began improving fairly rapidly after that. I would say my full energy didn't come back for a few weeks though. The good news is when it did I had more energy than I've had in years!

[Babbs 14,681]

I concur with @HopeandAgony. I felt almost human at about 5 weeks.

Just keep in mind, this is only temporary. The way you feel now is not going to be the way you feel at 3 week, 3 months, 6 months...it just keeps getting better and better!

[cdsjjotn 516]

2 weeks for me but like babbs said everyday gets better

[The Candidate 3,215]

I was pretty back to normal in about two weeks for everything but exhaustion. That took about six weeks to dissipate. Hang in there!

[ocgirl15 667]

I was two weeks on 12/28 and felt tired and foggy. The dr had me start my bari mult Vitamin on 12/29 plus puréed food. Within 48 hours the lethargy and brain fog lifted. I feel great today! You will turn the corner soon! Keep up with your fluids!

[SweetPotato 142]

I went back to work on day 6 and felt pretty good at that point. Felt completely normal by day 10.

[tracy amanda 8]

To start feeling normal again ie not tired not in pain and to start eating normal food it took me 7 weeks. t 7 weeks I started to have loads of energy too . Best of luck x

[Dub 9,922]

@@destiny_77 I had an abdominal hernia repair done at the same time as my sleeve. The hernia was the only source of pain and soreness. The sleeve felt fine from the recovery room to right now.

It took a couple of days to get the surgical meds flushed outa my system. Stuff had me drowsy and lethargic.

It took over a week to get most of the surgery related inflammation flushed out, too.

Somewhere around week 3 I started to have issues with low blood pressure. It was low for the first time in my adult life. Low because of the fast weight loss that sped up on the pre-op & post-op liquid diet. The doc cut my blood pressure meds way down and those odd feels were done and I was instantly good to go.

The really good feeling showed up around week 8-9. I think the weight loss had reached a point where my back and knees were getting good relief and I was seeing the benefits to the surgery.

Improved vascularity, happy state of mind and overall relief knowing that 2016 was going to be the best year I've seen finally set in.

The pre-op periods sucks.

The first month afterwards is hum-drum.......everybody gets sick of the liquid life.

Somewhere shortly after that, though, normal sleeve life takes over and the improvements become evident and grow from there.

Hang in there and stick with your program. You'll be so far past the "no fun" part of the deal really soon..............

[destiny_77 43]

@@destiny_77 I had an abdominal hernia repair done at the same time as my sleeve. The hernia was the only source of pain and soreness. The sleeve felt fine from the recovery room to right now.

It took a couple of days to get the surgical meds flushed outa my system. Stuff had me drowsy and lethargic.

It took over a week to get most of the surgery related inflammation flushed out, too.

Somewhere around week 3 I started to have issues with low blood pressure. It was low for the first time in my adult life. Low because of the fast weight loss that sped up on the pre-op & post-op liquid diet. The doc cut my blood pressure meds way down and those odd feels were done and I was instantly good to go.

The really good feeling showed up around week 8-9. I think the weight loss had reached a point where my back and knees were getting good relief and I was seeing the benefits to the surgery.

Improved vascularity, happy state of mind and overall relief knowing that 2016 was going to be the best year I've seen finally set in.

The pre-op periods sucks.

The first month afterwards is hum-drum.......everybody gets sick of the liquid life.

Somewhere shortly after that, though, normal sleeve life takes over and the improvements become evident and grow from there.

Hang in there and stick with your program. You'll be so far past the "no fun" part of the deal really soon..............

Oh to be able to get around with much less pain in my back and knees!! Definitely looking forward to that benefit. Thank you for your detailed response, it helps ease my mind a lot!! I must be doing something right during this first stage of madness because I'm already down 5 pounds since the 28th . Woo hoo!! Pre surgery, I would fight tooth and nail to drop 5 pounds so I'm happy with my progress so far even though this has been tough!! I really think I might get violent if anyone tells me I took the easy way out!! Again, thank you for your input! Helps a lot

[MABox 2]

Destiny I too sleeved on the 28th and had a hernia repair. The pain I felt came from the repair and lasted two days. I have been lucky thus far. Suregery dayI slept all day. Day one I had some problems getting the protien shakes down however, I watered them down a bit and they went down better. Day two I went home and sipped sipped. Day 3 i filled up my two 32 oz insulated Water bottles with protien drinks and got thru 3/4 of my 64 oz I also had some protien broth. My energy is coming back. The thoughts I am having is as long as I make up two bottles a day with 64oz of fluid/protien and work on getting them down the less I worry about doing the right thing. I am calling this my new normal. I am taking it slow and steady and am in no hurry to move on to mushy foods or real food. If I keep doing this for a few weeks I think it will be beneficial in the long run. Now that pesky gas, belching and gurggling of the tummy yup that has to go!!!

[FancyCakes 46]

I had my sleeve on the 28th. I have been very compliant with walking, choking down my crushed meds, and sip sip sipping all day long but I feel so out of my zone!! My stomach feels hungry but I'm not hungry at all. I still have gas but was able to finally pass some last night which felt wonderful. I'm just wondering how long it will be until I am back up and at it like before or better than before. Oh!! And the lethargy!! I am extremely tired all day but I still make my self get up and walk. Any advice from those of you who are newly sleeved and hadn't forgot about what you went through in the beginning but been sleeved long enough to say when you started feeling like your old self again. TIA!!

Just as a side note, I came home from surgery and I was starving. I would try to eat and it wouldn't go away. It was stomach acid. I take omeprazole and now I don't have any fake hunger pains. Be sure your hunger is really hunger and not stomach acid.

[meganmom 169]

Destiny_77 today was the first day I have had energy and felt normal again. I felt great overall. This is week 3 1/2 for me. It gets better I promise. I had no energy last week.

[destiny_77 43]

@@FancyCakes, I, too, have a script of Omeprazole that I take faithfully daily and I still feel hungry but I am sticking to my liquids. Thank you for the tip just the same though. @@meganmom, have you started regular foods yet? I'm wondering if the energy is coming from the Protein in food rather than our shakes... Thanks for the responses guys, I can use all the help I can get!! I will say, that I am feeling a whole lot better than I have been! Hope y'all are doing well!!

Edited January 6, 2016 by destiny_77