What does full feel like? And where?

Yay! I'm 5 days post RNY and feeling better every day. I don't feel anything that I recognize as "full" but I'm not hungry. I think the pouch is near my lower left ribcage? I'm feeling something down there. Anyway I would appreciate some help knowing what it feels like when I feel full.

My lower rib area on both sides is still sore, and I have a bruise at my lower left incision, but I think it's going away. All normal, right?

At 5 days post-op, you're still healing from having all of your nerves severed.  You can't trust your stomach for anything, since it's a liar.  You're also unlikely to feel any sense of fullness until you're eating solid foods.  

This is why it's super important to weigh and measure everything you eat right now, since you don't have any reliable signals to listen to and you don't want to damage yourself by overeating.

That's a relief. Thank you! 

You should be having very light diet right now. And you will feel full in a matter of weeks, and it won't take much.

I've had the gastric sleeve so i don't know if you will feel the same, but I can tell you when I'm full. I feel it under my chest a little maybe right under the breat bone. When I really over eat and to full it feels like its under my rib cage very painful like Thanksgving stuffed not regular full ... and most times i get heartburn if I have overeaten.  

I can feel it now, at least sometimes.  I think it was a combination of the healing process, plus eating very soft and liquid foods.  A meatball fills me up, even though I chew chew chew.  I can even feel water and pills now, so I'm thrilled.  Down about 40 overall, 10 pre-surgery.