Hello all....I had the surgary on Oct 16th (one month and 1day ago) and I am finally starting to feel "norman" again. I have my good and bad days. I have lost a total of 34 lbs since I started the two week semi-liquid diet on Oct 2. But my weight loss has significantly slowed down in the last 2 weeks (only about 4 lbs) which is really frustereateing. I have my first post-op appnt with the DR on the 22 of Nov and I have lost of questions for them. I was very well prepared ( read everything I could find) but nothing prepared me for the loss of a friend( food). And for how horrible I felt....I had to have a blood transfusion due to loss of blood during surgery which ment that I stayed in the hospital for 4 days.....and then the second week post -op I got some kind of a intestinal infection which caused constant diarrea ( which when your not eating AT ALL is more like fire coming out...stomach acid) sorry to be so grafic but this is real life after gastric bypass. If I had known how I would feel having these complications I cant say that I would not have done this because I was committed but still the reality of it is it sucks for about a month. I would love to communicate with others who have had this done and ones who are considering it. GOOD LUCK- Gwen
