Just venting

[sbg224 318]

I am 1 week short of 6 months post vsg. I have lost 76lbs, including preop. I felt like I was losing so slowly in the beginning, but now I am pleases with the weight loss so far. I have about another 45-50 lbs to go. Anyway there were times after the surgery I was able to eat quite a bit. I once at about 4 ounces of steak and 2-3 ounces of chicken at one sitting at a korean barbecue restaurant, and just felt full, not stuffed. Anyway 12/22/15 I had a total knee replacement, and it has been, as someone on here put it, brutal. I never imagined it was going to be this painful. this is my 3rd major surgery, and I recovered rather quickly and painlessly, but not this time. I am still taking norco 5 weeks out. I have felt in the past 5 weeks so much more restriction. I somedays can only eat 500-700 calories and do not get in my Protein or fluids, but I just can't. Before the knee surgery I was able to eat 1000-1100 calories and always got in 80-100 gms of Protein, fluids have always been a little bit of a problem. I was just wondering, and I have emailed the NUT and the nurse practiontioner, and have not heard back yet, on any ideas why this restriction is so much more now. Is it the narcotics possibly. If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them. It is funny, I would read on here how so many of you could only take a few bites, and I wondered why I could seem to eat so much more, and now i am feeling like this is how it originally should have been right after surgery, so I have gone backwards, lol. Thanks for any thoughts

[FrankyG 1,450]

I am absolutely not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I think you might be right about the drugs they have you one for pain interfering with the amount you feel like eating. narcotics/opioids are going to suppress your appetite and lower the hunger signals, and I'd not be surprised if you got full faster on less food as well since it's likely screwing up your full feelings too.

So sorry you're in more pain and having a longer recovery. My mom had total knee replacement many years ago, and I remember it taking quite some time for her to be up and around and doing okay.