Glad to hear your surgery went well.  Welcome to the losers bench!

I feel like I'm spending my entire day chewing...LOL.
I'm happy to hear that everything is going so well for you!!
Oranges sound so good...I have to wait a couple more weeks. My nut said no fruit with membranes until after my next appt. (Apr. 19).

My mom has always been anemic her entire life.  From the way the PCP described it, she was afraid they would cancel the surgery, but they didn't.  Her hemoglobin was 11.0 but went down to 10.4 post surgery.  After the surgery and before my surgery (we both had RNY) we went to the gym and the paramedics had to be called.  Her iron was so low, it was affecting her BP and it was low (96/55).  She eventually had to be prescribed extra iron and got one iron infusion.  This really helped and she had no more problems.

Maybe you need to take your pain meds? I don't think you need to suffer like that.

One thing you could try is when you are trying to get out of bed. First put your feet over the bed then slowly "walk" your upper body up with your hands. Try not to use your abdominal muscles to get up.

Hope you feel better soon.

I would say you are doing amazing! 25 lbs down is wonderful. Keep up the great work. I was down 20 lbs at my 3 week post op surgeon said most people loose between 10-30 the first 3 weeks.