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Yesterday I started to feel hungry. And today too. Sure it was easy to handle, an ounce of Protein, but isn't it too early? I heard people waited months to feel hungry...

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I felt what I think was hunger the first two weeks or so. It was probably stomach pain from the surgery as the stomach contracted. Hard to tell for sure. Since then I haven’t been hungry at all (four months out).. occasionally I’ll get what I remember as hunger pangs but they last literally a few seconds and are gone.

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I heard that stomach acid can seem like hunger and my surgeon prescribed an antacid for the first six months. Are you taking an antacid?

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Yes, that gnawing feeling I had post- op was alleviated by omeprazole.

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I have felt hunger since day one. It doesn’t take much to fill me up though (protein is my go to for hunger). I don’t feel hunger like I used to though, which was all day, everyday, but I typically feel hungry at least once per day. I wish I didn’t get hungry, but like I said, it is easy to fix with a bit of dense Protein.

Hope all goes well with you!

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I had no appetite at all for two weeks. My cousin, on the other hand, ate a chicken wing before leaving the hospital! There's no hard and fast rule.

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On 10/18/2020 at 11:35 AM, ZeeWP said:

Yesterday I started to feel hungry. And today too. Sure it was easy to handle, an ounce of Protein, but isn't it too early? I heard people waited months to feel hungry...

I get hungry but it abates with the smallest portion of anything lol. I would say though im hungry im less hungry than id get prior to surgery

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Yesterday I started to feel hungry. And today too. Sure it was easy to handle, an ounce of Protein, but isn't it too early? I heard people waited months to feel hungry...

Me too! I'm on day 7 and literally feel hungry all the time I'm so tempted to try regular food I feel like it wouldn't even affect me why am I feeling this way

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I am exaclty one week post op and I was surprised and disappointed to be hungry within this time span. It's easy to fix it; I'll have some broth typically it I'm between meals. But it's definitely hunger. I'm already taking Prilosec so I know it isn't stomach acid. You are not alone.

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Im hungry too and that concerns me. I feel like if i just ate a soft scrambled egg it would go away but my surgical instr. say one more week of Clear Liquids. From what i can tell every surgeon is different. I feel like ive been WAY under educated for this surgery tho because the purpose of mine was for preparation for abdominal wall reconstruction once ive lost enough weight...

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