Freezing!!

I'm four days post op (I think, do you count the day of your surgery as 1 or the day after?) and I'm freezing. I remember reading this here, an it's so true. Heat is at 69 and I'm wearing a sweatshirt, pants and socks. My hands are freezing!! Does it get better or not?

I'm 4 months post op and am cold all the time. I hope it does get better! Take care...

16 months and I'm still waiting for it to get better.

I have a heated throw blanket that is LOVE. I put it between the sheets and turn it on so that I can get into a warm bed.

Hubby still looks at me funny when I say I'm cold.

I'm glad you posted this, I thought I was the only one. At work I was known (before sleeve) to always keep it cold. Now I'm always freezing hee hee!

I was always the hot, and I don't mean sexy, sweaty girl with sweat droplets falling from the back of her neck and short hair. I just bought an electric blanket for the first time in my life. I had to make a run to WalMart because I didn't sleep at all 3 nights ago because I was so uncomfortably cold with heat on 68 overnight, socks, flannel pj's, down comforter. My hubby likes it chilly at night so now I am cocooned in my cozy electric blanket at night. Right now, I live in sweaters, thick socks and fleece throws wrapped around me when I am home. I would much rather have this problem than to be morbidly obesity and sweating. Sometimes it is hard to be thankful for being icy cold to the bone though. I feel ya.

Good news! It does get better! In the summer, outside, but not in air conditioning.  Seriously, your body has just sustained a huge shock and it does respond this way. I had this surgery in Aug. when it was quite hot and thought I would freeze to death. I went from the previous week wearing tank tops to sitting out side wraped in a heavy blanket. It did get better, just before the cool fall weather. You may get some relief for a while but count on getting the chills as you lose your weight. You can join me in wearing warm shirts beneath my heavy hooded sweatshirt, heavy jeans, two pair of socks, (I wear the ones they give you in the hospital and put better looking ones on top) while under that heavy throw. I am fortunate that we have french doors into our living room so we can keep those shut when we are in there. It holds more heat from the furnace and we have an electric heater to boot.

Do what you have to do to survive. BTW I eventually warmed up about a year out from losing all my weight with my band but since I lost an additional 20 pounds I am back the other way.

Good luck!

I'm over 2 1/2 years out and I'm still cold.  

I used to be hot all the time.   Now I can only wear short sleeves on the hotest of days and I make liberal use of my mattress pad warmer (turn it on before I get in bed and turn it off before I go to sleep).....best invention EVER!  I actually bought the heater for my husband before my surgery, but I use it now more than he ever has.  We always used to tease him about being cold, but I'm now colder than he ever was!

I'd still do it again in a heartbeat!

 

Thanks everyone.  I think I'll pick up a heating blanket at the store.  If this is my "side effect" I'll gladly take it. 

I'm over 9 years out, and I sleep under an electric blanket, on top of a heated mattress cover, about 9 months out of the year. I wear wool socks, even in the summer.

go to Costco and get the parabolic heater they sell that thing will cook you

my hubby had surgery a few years ago (not wls) and drove everyone crazy for a few weeks , turn the fan, on turn the fan off, the ac is to high the ac is to low

your body went thru a major shock and takes time to adjust to it