can you tell your insides are rearranged?

Kind of a dumb question, I know there is pain after any kind of surgery but do you feel like your insides have been rerouted? I am getting anxious about the cutting and rearranging of my parts.

Not really.  I mean, can you feel where your intestines are now?

I think that is what I mean. When I had the lapband put in ypu can feel the port from the outside. They are going to take that out and do a RNY. I guess it is still weird to me that I am rearranging my perfectly good organs. Lol. Just anxiety Im sure.

For a short time after my RNY drinking water felt kind of weird. Kind of gurgly and while I couldn't tell about my intestines, it seemed like I could tell my stomach was different. That went away pretty fast though and 15 mos out I don't feel any different WRT my innards. :D

Jen

I felt this way up through about 6-7 weeks.  Like if I rolled over on my side, I could feel things moving and stuff like that.  But after I was fully healed, I feel totally "normal".  The only way I can even feel that I had anything done is when I forget and drink water a little too fast.

That happens to me too! I never forget I have a tiny stomach when I'm eating. Small bites and chew chew chew. But every now and then I forget and take a big swig of water. Not fun!

No questions are dumb questions!

And no, I can't "feel" the difference!

I can feel my pouch if I overeat or get something stuck - it's not where I felt my stomach was but underneath my sternum - it does feel weird!  Walking around normally feels ... normal!

At coming up on 8 years out, I can still feel my pouch if I eat too much because the discomfort is up much higher and feels different than a full entire stomach did before surgery, and if I drink something really hot or really cold, I can tell that the patch it takes is different than it was for the first 45 years of my life. Other than that, though -- neither of those things happens terribly often -- no, I don't feel like my insides have been rearranged.  

As Kelly said, we couldn't feel our intestines before, and we cannot feel them now. I understand how it might seem mentally weird, though.  I would think it would also be mentally weird to know that your remnant stomach was removed if you had a sleeve done, though.  

Lora

The first thing I realized after surgery was I never knew how my intestines were hooked up before and I never felt anything different.