When will I start to feel full??

MarthaMyDear
on 4/16/13 6:32 am - PA
RNY on 04/09/13

I had surgery on 4/9 and still on full liquid diet. I can't tell when I feel full. When does that kick in. My computer is blocking up so it won't let me search here for my answer and I know I seen it before. Thanks

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 4/16/13 6:38 am - OH

It varies from person to person. You will invariably get an answer about the nerves being cut during surgery, but it is much more difficult to feel full when you are on liquids that are just going through your pouch into your intestines. You don't FEEL full because your pouch doesn't GET full.  It is like a funnel. I was eating soft food three days after surgery, though, and eating solid food by a week out, and I could definitely feel when I was full at that point in time.  Most of my surgeon's other patients reported the same experience, so I think the liquids versus solids affects it more than cut nerves healing.  

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Dee.spunk
on 4/16/13 6:56 am, edited 4/16/13 6:57 am - Sacramento, CA
Your nerves were cut so you won't feel anything until that heals
I just saw Lora's post. What Lora said.

Height:5'1.5 RNY:11/30/11 HW:307 SW:234 CW:136 GW:140 (LOST 73 Lbs. PRE-OP)

 


 

Saandraw
on 4/16/13 10:56 am
I had surgery on 1/9/13 and never feel full. They say everyone is different. Good luck
honestlinzel
on 4/16/13 11:12 am - CA

so is it strange that I feel full constantly? :/

RNY Surgery was on 4/12/2013. Now currently on the Never hungry ever bench

Starting weight: 320lbs

Current Weight:  203lbs

 

tarsanne
on 4/16/13 12:14 pm - MO
On April 16, 2013 at 6:12 PM Pacific Time, honestlinzel wrote:

so is it strange that I feel full constantly? :/

Ditto! I had surgery the 9th and I haven't NOT felt full yet! I have to really make myself drink even cuz I am just too full to want anything going in! I started puréed today and I ate about 1/4 cup if cream if wheat this morning about 10. At like 7:30 tonight I thought oh dang I should eat! Didn't want anything!

I might add that I still feel VERY bloated and maybe that's why???
aquapeach
on 4/16/13 11:14 pm - Germany
RNY on 03/13/13

Im right along with you.. I dont feel full. I had surgery on 3/13 and have progressed through the full liquid diet - onto soft foods and now "real" food, but I dont feel the sensation of being full.  Ive heard many reasons for this-- they all make sense.. the vagus nerve being cut, the pouch as a funnel for liquids.. Im hoping I get that feeling back soon... best of luck to you!

            

chulbert
on 4/16/13 11:18 pm - Rochester, NY
RNY on 01/21/13

My surgery was on 1/21/13 and I still rarely feel full on the amounts I eat.  However, I was in a rush a time or two and gobbled down the same portion rather quickly and sure felt full!  More like plugged but it passed.  :)

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