Energy Levels

Capegin, yes!  Those first few days, I felt like I could do anything!  It's a mean little trick our bodies play on us, I guess. :)

This takes awhile, Steph - be patient with yourself!  I had surgery on a Friday and was back to work within 10 days and felt pretty good.  But I definitely ran out of gas by noon or early afternoon for the first week or so back in the office.  

Most people on here report feeling back to almost-normal at 30 days post-op.  But there are others *****port fatigue a lot longer.  If your'e already walking a mile eacy day I would say you are well on your way to a speedy recovery 

Thanks, Tracy!  I go back to work on Monday and I have a feeling I'll have the same issues as you. 

I was pretty listless for a good 5 weeks, myself.  I had spurts of energy, but they were short-lived.

My surgery was a week ago today, and I think I'm in a similar boat as you, StephK10.  The day after I got home (POD3), I did dishes and went on a bunch of errands with my SO, but I only had a couple hours of steam before I lost all energy. Then I slept like whoa.  Definitely pushed myself too far that day.  The past couple days, even though I'm taking things much more slowly than that, the energy seems to have dropped to near zero. I've been feeling so puny. Just weak and tired. I'm meeting my fluids goal and *almost* meeting my protein goal daily, and I'm tolerating all my vitamins, so it must be the healing. 

The thing I try to keep in mind is that not only are we asking our bodies to heal multiple stab wounds, preserve and heal arts and crafts projects done on our internal organs, flush all the anesthetics (which are harsh chemicals), and provide us enough energy to walk as much as we're supposed to every day -- we're asking our bodies to do all of that while starving. It's a pretty tall order, so we should probably cut our bodies a break and do the best we can. While I know this is all normal stuff (I've been a lurker for years and have seen people talk about the energy depletion time and time again), it helps to see that it's probably nothing to worry about through the recent posts of others who were sleeved around the time we were.  Because all this information hits home in a very different way post-op than it did pre-op. 

We're living it now. >_>

You know what's funny, Helen?  I'm a nurse!  I know all this stuff.  But when it's me, it's different, I guess.  I forget all that stuff.  Thanks for the reminder - especially the part about the stab wounds, which made me laugh! :)

We're living it, alright!  Go us!