ATTENTION : ALL postops that had problem with eating too much please respond...

I went to the doctor today and I made sure that I mention to her just how much I can eat. This was my 8 week appointment, but I am really only about 7 weeks post op right now. I told her how I could eat 6 chicken nuggets at one meal, and she said how--"your going to stretch your stomach", and I told her that I was just that hungry and still had an appetite, and that other days I feel like I can't eat that much. She said where the new stomach "pouch" meets the intestine had "slothed off" and where that hole was for food to pass from the pouch to the intestine has gotten bigger or "slothed off". This means that I can eat more, BUT where if I eat 5 nuggets I still only absorb 2 OF THOSE. So, in other words I eat 5 only absorb 2 which is what I would absorb if I eat 2 nuggets. I said so that can be good right? and she said well you probably will never stretch your pouch out because it can't get full enough from the bigger opening allowing food to just pass right through. Apparently, this is a problem often with patients, and they don't know why. She assured me that I will still make it to goal weight. In fact, she said that they can do surgery to correct the larger opening, but she said the only reason that the patient had revision on the opening was due to "foul" smelling stools. It seems to me it could be bad because you can't or don't hold food in your pouch as long, due to the food just being able to pass right through. HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF THIS...I need to learn more about this. Can someone help me??? Thanks a bunch!

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