These first few days

Feb 07, 2017

I didn't expect it to hurt this much.  So many people say they hardly had any pain.  Maybe it's the combination of band removal + rny + small hernia repair all at the same time?  Or I guess we're just all different.  Tylenol barely makes a dent.  Oxy gives me the relief I need but I only have a small amount and of course don't want to get addicted so I'm trying to just suck it up as much as possible.

I expected to lose weight.  I'm on day 6 post op today and am still 3 lbs higher than day of surgery.  The scale hasn't moved since I got home on Friday (2 days post-op).  I hear it will come off, just need to keep sipping my fluids.  It's still depressing that others seem to be showing big losses right away.  It'd probably bother me less had I been warned in advance.

I'm on 'full liquids' which means protein shakes, non-caloric drinks, and pureed broth-based soups.  I'm not hungry, which is awesome!  But I also am thinking about all the food I wish I could have right now.  Food-mourning stage.  I'm told it goes away once I'm on the long-term full solids, esp at 3 or so months out when I can have raw veggies and such.  

So far I'm not seeing changes in taste that others are talking about.  But my diet is very limited.

Very much looking forward to healing and getting back to exercise!  I am able to do short walks now but they tire me out more than before as I'm still healing. 

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