post-op questions

[Guest guest]

I have a few post-op questions. I am 7 1/2 weeks out from surgery and 32

years old.

1. I seem to be able to eat such tiny amounts and I wonder if it is normal.

For breakfast I eat 1/4 bagel with peanutbutter. Lunch is salad with meat

(about the size of my fist). Dinner is about 5 bites of meat, 2 bites of

veggies and one bite of potato. No snacks or desserts. I try and drink

water all day long and I do tend to stop 30 minutes prior to meals. I get

full so fast and I sometimes have to make myself eat because I am not hungry.

Is this normal for this stage?

2. What happened to my taste? I used to love sugary stuff and would eat Ben &

Jerry's as an appetizer. Now anything with sugar is just too sweet and

hurts my mouth. I have tried so many different candies, juices, etc., but

they all taste bad.

3. Has anyone had a tummy tuck after losing their weight? What kind of

results do you get? How bad is the pain compared to DS surgery? I am hoping

to be able to have one done when I am about 18 months out, around Christmas

of 2002.

4. Does anyone else have dreams about being able to eat too much or gaining

weight? I seem to have them almost every other night. Last night I dreamt

that I got on the scale and had gained all the 40 lbs. I lost back. Now I am

too scared to step on the scale for fear that I did gain. I know that I

can't possibly be eating enough to gain, but the mind can do strange things.

5. Am I the only one who seems to obsess about all of this?

Kathy M.

DS 7/19/01 Dr. Hares

213 pre-op

173 9/6/01

[Guest guest]

I'll answer the ones that I've experienced.

> 1. I seem to be able to eat such tiny amounts

What you're describing is very normal. Soon you'll notice you can eat more

and more.

> 2. What happened to my taste?

My tastes changed, too. Right after surgery I likes things that before I'd

turn my nose up at and the things I liked tasted bad. I also had a funny

taste in my mouth which I later found out was from all the meds and the dry

mouth. It took a few weeks for it to go away but finally my tastes did

return to normal. Now, I like the taste of all that junk but I just don't

want it.

> 4. Does anyone else have dreams about being able to eat too much or

gaining

I dream about my hair! LOL! I think your dreams are normal, stemming from

your concern that this surgery will really work. Trust me...IT DOES!!!

> 5. Am I the only one who seems to obsess about all of this?

You aren't the only one. We all have obsessed about something at one time or

another. You're perfectly normal!

Micky

post-op questions

> I have a few post-op questions. I am 7 1/2 weeks out from surgery and 32

> years old.

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