4 weeks out and still feel awful!

Have you contacted your Doctors office?

For me I had a few issues the first couple of months....I was very tired, no energy, they found out my B1 not B12, B1 was very low, so I had to get weekly injections for a few months.....Also I had pain in my side, that was due to the muscles, they just needed to heal so they gave me some liquid Percoset pain medicine to help bare with the pain.......I could only eat 1-2T. per meal of food for the 1st 2 months, then full.....I also ended up in the ER due to dehydration.....

Not sure what to tell you other than call your Doctor, if you haven't already......The most important thing is to get in your water, if you get dehydrated that can bring on a ton of issues.....

Good luck, Kelly

I would call your surgeons office and make an appointment.  You need to be checked out to be safe.  Don't take any chances of something being wrong.  If they say no demand it................ Good luck sweetie and keep us posted!!!!!

Hugs,

Marsha

Tess,

I don't mean to minimize what you're feeling now, because it's 110% legitimate.  Not every one comes through WLS feeling immediately fabulous.  Over the 3 years I've been on OH, I've seen many cases of post-op issues that were sometimes very serious - a few even life-threatening.  Maybe some who have had such experiences will share their stories with you here, or at least encourage you to read their profile for their story.

But in 3 years here, I can honestly say I'm only aware of ONE PERSON who, to this day, regrets ever doing it.   That person has had an insane medical history since WLS - I'm not familiar enough to know whether or not the issues have been related to WLS or not.  Some people have issues that may have come about whether or not they had WLS, but blame their WLS for the issues.  I'm not in any position to judge, I haven't walked in those shoes. 

The moral of my reply?  Hang in there.  Be pro-active with your doctors, by all means!  But keep doing what you know you need to do to "work" your tool, and I would be willing to bet that some day, you will be able to sincerely say you do NOT regret doing this.

I have said I'd do it annually if that's what it took to maintain my 170# loss, and I mean it.

If I recall, I didn't start feeling better until about month 3. But I wasn't exercising as I should have been, and I over did it with lifting too much early on.  If you still have some of that left side, muscle pulling type pain, wear that binder again.  If you're not exercising, DO.  As much as I hate it, it did and does give me energy.  I was envious of other people who seemed to bounce right back right after surgery.  You'll get there and feel better, maybe just not as quickly as you like.

Sounds like maybe you're not getting enough nutrition. (If the headache and nausea go away when you do eat as you should.)  I remember having stages where I felt like anything I should eat, I had no interest in, and anything I craved I shouldn't /couldn't have.  Have you moved to to the solid food phase already?   Eating wasn't fun or enjoyable in the beginning, it was work, and you've just got to do it to feel ok. Try to get your joy from other things. My hormones felt way out of wack too. I got teary over little things and was quite the b*tch sometimes. No energy, feeling like crap, and not being able to eat all that "good:" stuff you used is hard. 

You'll get better, it just takes time. In the meantime, just come here to complain. Writing it out and sharing helps alot!

My heart goes out to you.  Feeling unwell and having no control over it can be overwhelming.  I don't want to tell you that it will be 'all better' soon.  I was one of those for whom it took awhile, several months in fact.  What I can reassure you of though, is that it doesn't last forever.  I was told by my surgeon that it would have been irrational for me to be happy about a surgery given the complications I went though, but that someday, I'd feel it was the best thing I've ever done for myself.  He was right, but I sure didn't believe him at the time.

Seven months out from surgery and I'm feeling pretty darn good.  I'm down to 195 and a size sixteen.  A neighbor noticed me at the store and said I was looking 'skinny'...SKINNY?  Wow, skinny...

I don't know about that, but it sure felt good to hear.  Yesterday, on impulse, I took a jaunt down to my brother's house which is almost a four hour roundtrip.  Before the surgery, I avoided long trips because my back would be out for several days thereafter.  I had a blast, and today, I'm still in the land of the living, a little pain, but I'm smiling and functional.  I'm able to shop without using the motorized carts.  I don't know, just so many changes, good ones.

You'll make it, kiddo.  You feel like hell right now, so I'll give you no advice and instead just offer a little sympathy and a big hug, something I sure could have used after my surgery.