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Lady Lithia
on 3/25/11 1:19 am

I think that while the nerves are growing back from the cut stomach, your body wants to send out signals when you eat too much, but the normal pathway is blocked, so sometimes it just sends out a red-alert that all the nerves pick up on, and they don't know what to make of it, so the simplest message to send up to the brain is the burning sensation.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
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Kelly S.
on 3/24/11 11:29 pm

RNY on 05/15/09

How come I can eat way more when I have PMS than any other time? Do hormones make your pouch more elastic to accomdodate more food?

20 pounds lost during two week pre-op diet.

Lady Lithia
on 3/25/11 1:21 am

Excellent question.... icould eat an entire zebra at that time.... I've heard your metabolism is UP during that time, so you naturally DESIRe more food, and perhaps even your stomach/pouch work harder to push the food on through so you can get more food in to accomodate the "natural" need your body perceives.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

clsino
on 3/24/11 11:38 pm

RNY on 10/06/09

Kelly

Do you notice that your sense of smell has changed since surgery? I have noticed mine has really changed and from what I have researched smell and taste are tightly intertwined. I have no idea why my sense of smell has changed because as far as I know my surgeon left my nose alone, but it is what it is. Just a thought. Maybe that nerve they cut has something to do with smell?

Christy

poet_kelly
on 3/24/11 11:51 pm - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Only temporary. Smells just seemed way stronger. I don't have a clue why though.

Kelly

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Ambria
on 3/26/11 8:08 am

RNY on 06/29/10

I agree about the smells. I now can smell, of all things, something burning. It's strange. I ask my husband a lot of times if he smells something burning. He says no...it always smells like wood burning.......hmmmmmmm, why do I smell burning things?

hazy43
on 3/24/11 11:46 pm

RNY on 09/24/09

Why do I start sneezing when my pouch is full?

Pam T.
on 3/24/11 11:58 pm - Saginaw, MI

RNY on 11/13/07

It's pretty normal to get a new "signal" for fullness (or hunger) after surgery. Because the nerves in the stomach were damaged during surgery, the body needs to find a new way to talk to us until those nerves heal and start working again. We all seem to get a different signal, but some of the most common are:

** sneezing
** hiccups
** burps
** a psychology knowledge you shouldn't eat another bite

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Lady Lithia
on 3/25/11 1:23 am

you forgot "running nose" as one of the common signals.

most of the time I got to where I knew I should be and couldn't eat more because I KNEW it could mess with me and I didn't want to be messed wiht.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

bubbylucy
on 3/24/11 11:56 pm - Raleigh, NC

RNY on 12/14/09

Ok here are some answers I know. Our taste change in the very beginning from the extreme ketosis. The gases come out our mouth and change the way we taste things. Later on in the process i think our taste are different because of the extreme chemical changes, not only from what we no longer absorb but to the decrease in the enzymes we produce.
I think hormones in females have alot to do with how much we can eat, although we all seem to have our big pouch days and small pouch days.
I believe we sneeze or start a runny nose when we are full because of the location of our pouch and the pressure it puts on certain nerves, unlike when our stomach was in our mid section we would need to unbutton our pants and feel like we could not take a deep breath.

Hope that helps some
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