Post OP - 4 Weeks Thursday .

This Thursday will be 4 weeks from my surgery day . Right now I am feeling like crap . I now have a summer cold and trying to get my strength back . I have sharp burning pains in my incesion - Doc said is nothing - as they did a Cat Scan . Is anyone else out there post op @ same time as me . How are you doing . Weight loss is great - I am down 36 lbs . Not complaining there . But I want the normal good feeling me back . Thanks , Nat

Hi Natalie. My name is Carrie, I am from Green Bay, Wi. I am coming up on 4 weeks post op. I just thought that I would drop a line to say hello. I was reading the posts and came across yours. I am also down 36 lbs I really didnt have any pain with the incision its my ribs that still hurt like mad when I cough or sneeze. I know how you feel about the normal feeling back. I still have trouble eating slower and end up with chest pain and I hardly eat my food. Congrats to you and I hope you start feeling better.

Well I am 4 weeks today and I have those same crappy days. I have pain that has come from somewhere in my shoulder and I am having break through bleading that I was not having normally. I had lost 32 pounds at my last dr. visit on last thursday but I just don't feel like myself right now. I hate to continue to complain but I am just ready to get over the slump that I am in

I will be 4 weeks on Thursday. I completely lost my energy this last week. I am taking my vitamins, but I am completely exhausted. I'm back to work, so it is challenging. Otherwise I was lap, so I'm not hurting there MNgal 254/226/??? - 28 Lap RNY/choly

Add my name to the "Wants to feel normal" list. I've been doing pretty well up til this weekend, but now I feel nauseated a lot of the time and I started today by up my vitamins. The total fatigue "hibernation syndrome" has definitely settled in-I feel cold, want to sleep ALL THE TIME, and get kinda grouchy when I am made to do much. I am fighting this by struggling to get my still-oversized booty up to walk at least once a day. I get some oweeeees in my incision as well-mostly when I'm moving around (in bed, of course... ), and I spend an inordinate amount of time wondering if my incision is going to open up like I've read about on here. It hasn't. It won't. I just like to worry. I think there's also some sense of reality that my relationship with food is gone forever. I read so many posts about this before I had surgery, so I was just waiting for the moment it would set in. I miss my old favorite foods, but every time I think about them, I think "well, GOOD that you can't have those, since that's how you got this way in the first place!" Still, knowing it rationally and accepting it are not always the same thing. Good news is that in feeling frozen and chilled tonight, I reached for a zip-up sweatshirt my sis-in-law got me for Mom's Day. It zipped but was too snug and looked bad-back then. Tonight it looks pretty good. Might even be a bit too big. Thanks everyone for posting your own stories-it makes me feel better to know I'm not alone. Hugs, Susan -24

Sign me up for the "Wanting to Feel Great" list - I had surgery on the same day (5/27). While I don't have pain anymore, I get tired and I miss my old comfort foods (that part is so, so hard). I unemployed with no hope of current employment soon....so it is hard for me to feel so sorry for myself now....I have so much to be grateful for but I miss working and I miss feeling at least normal (though I'd like to be as good as I was pre-op and then BETTER - more energy). I also eat to fast - feel like that steel beam is stuck horizontally across my chest - OUCH. Then I worry I've stretched my pouch or the stoma....yadah yadah yadah.....sigh. Then it rained today and alll I've done is cry all day....Only managed to exercise 2 days last week - when does it get to be more fun? Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I'll get over it - I guess. Hugs, Ann

You guys make me feel better. I went back to work half time today. It totally kicked my butt. I had to come home and crash on the couch. I want to feel that energy. I want to be able to exercise. I can eat. That's not a problem. But.....I want to feel normal.

Tuesday is my 4 week date. I too have a "summer cold" Not taking a dam thing to help it either. Just me and my box of mentholated kleenex. I LOVE THEM! I am not as tired now that I am "self-medicated". I've been drinking a B-12 drink. I was supposed to start B-12 my 6th week but I felt compelled to take it upon myself to be my own doctor and I started it on Friday. It really does give me a boost. I also have been more aware of how little I've been drinking and up'ed the liquid intake. Water seems to FINALLY be agreeing w/ my new lil pouchie. We'll see if I can get in 8 glasses a day. Wish me luck! I of course feel like a slow loser, but am losing none-the-less. Official weigh in is every Tuesday after I wake up and pee. I'm crossing my fingers that I will also have a BM before I weigh in. Seems like I do that less and less! Gonna try drinking a glass of coffee each morning to see if that get's me "moving". (in more ways than one!) I try to go to bed around 10:00-ish each night. I started back at work a week ago (at 3 weeks out) and I seem to be doing okay. I swear I have 50 mother's there all wondering "should she be eating that?" BITE ME IT'S PUREED CHICKEN!!! geez. Still chuggin my protein shakes...well maybe not chuggin but at least they are still going down. Gonna take some more pics since I'm one month post op. Maybe I'll finallly get some posted. We'll see. Good luck my new skinny friends! Cheryl

Hi Natalie, I am 4 weeks today. Can't say I've been a happy camper. I've had a very hard time eating and drinking. Can't seem to get it in me. I've been to the hospital 3 times for IV fluids from dehydration. I'm getting a little better about it now. I guess I average around 30-40 oz fluids per day. Mostly 30 though. I've lost 40 pounds so far. I've felt so lousy, that dosen't really impress me yet. I've got around 0% energy. I think I'm going through some depression thing. I don't even want to shower and dress everyday. I made myself do some light housework today and I promised my sister I would take bath and shave my legs. Here it is 2:00pm and haven't done that yet. Oh well! I did so much research before this surgery and I'm really surprised I ended up this way. I know I did the right thing in my heart, but my head hasn't been to cooperative. I guess we just have to keep plugging. Listening to everyone on here, we know it will get better. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers for a better recovery SOON!!!!!! God Bless You