Hey Guys

I intro'ed myself a while back when I was just starting the process but then I stopped coming by. So  I thought I would reintroduce myself.....I jam 25 and ust had surgery on the 19th making me 9 days out now. I know everyone is normally ecstatic abt having surgery and have no regrets but im still in the wth did i do to myself stage.....I havent weighed yet....maybe once i do that ill feel better. I hate the way i feel and i cant get the potein in or the liquids....there is a taste in my mouth that will not leave and all i want to do all day is sleep.....I'm hoping it will get better.

Im two weeks out and it is really hard for me to get my liquids in right now too. Part of me feels like that part will never get better. IM sorry I have no advice for you Im so soon out, but hang in thier.My doctor told me this is very common place right after surgery, but that it does get better.

Hey, just so you know, it gets so much better and easier. I had surgery on 9/13/07. The first month, I kept asking myself the same thing, why did I do this to myself? Well, I'm right at 100 lbs gone and I can eat most anything now, just not much of it. Don't get me wrong, I don't eat a whole lot of junk food. I typically get in my protein first and if I'm not full, I may eat a carb here or there. But occasionally, I may have something sweet here and there. Unfortunately, I don't dump, so I don't have that to keep me from eating sweets. Still, tho, in 3 months, your attitude about having the surgery will change. You'll realize that you did the best thing possible to increase your quality and length of your life.

Welcome back and Congrats on being on the loser bench! The taste will your mouth shortly... I had it for about a week... nasty!  Sleep is good... its healing :)

Hey there!  This is totally normal...I went through that "AH, WHAT DID I DO TO MYSELF?  I WANT TO BE NORMAL" stage for a few weeks...I found that getting up and walking made me much stronger and helped in the long run even though it was soooo hard to get out of bed sometimes because I just wanted to sleep.  I'd say I finally felt "normal" after two months...and have no regrets whatsoever!  All I can say is it will get better and do your best to get support from people!! Good luck! Kim

oh god - I hated that phase! I think I brushed my teeth and used mouthwash after everything I ate - at least four+ times a day...lol... I hit the OMG what have I done to myself at day 5 in the hospital when something went wrong and they declared I had to have another surgery, my veins started collapsing because of too many IVs, and the &^%$^% tube up my nose into my pouch started causing scabs on my nose and in my throat and I STILL could not drink any water. (Spent a total of 13 days in the hospital, 5 in ICU and had major surgery to go back in and take out a torsion/twisty in my intestine that formed-they actually took out about 5 more inches of my intestine.) I don't think it was until I started my "semi-solid" to "normal" diet phases and being able to start sleeping on my side/tummy again at about 4-6 weeks (read: just in the last 2-4 weeks) I've started to finally feel - ok, THIS is why I had the surgery, this is what i thought it was going to be like.  Also it was at this time that it became "official" that my co-morbidities were GONE FOREVER... YEAH!!!! PS: I love to eat now  - I only eat when I'm hungry though and like crasz16 I don't really dump or have reactions except to tuna, shrimp, chicken, steak, protein shakes - ok, but that sounds worse than it really is - lol...I like them, don't get me wrong, my pouchie doesn't like them . ---------- Cass "I'm a light-weight and proud of it!"  RNY 11-05-2007 before/pre-surg/current/goal 205/200/171/125

I don't think too many people feel ecstatic at 9 days out....The grogginess could last up to a month, and it takes up to 12 weeks before your pouch is really healed, so until then it will be hard to tell what life will really be like. For most of us though, by about 5 to 6 weeks out we start feeling a lot better then we did before surgery. Then you will have about a six to eight month "honeymoon" period of rapid weight-loss! That's the fun part!

Congrats!! The first few weeks are the hardest for me the first 6 weeks was awful. But after you get past that- Look out!! It is very hard to get all your protein and liquids in but just do the best you can.  Thats all you can do. It will definetly get better.

Welcome to the losers bench!!!! The awful taste does get better and go away.  At 5 months post op I still go in and out of Ketosis to where I get that taste for a week or so. It's really ick.