Up 8.6 lbs in 3 days! Omg... I just got out of the hospital for my Gallbladder Surgury so.... Hoping

debbiem1966

Please someone help me understand such a huge gain in just 48 hrs.

Alatariel75

Water retention! Your body retains fluid (water) for repair. You're recovering from surgery! Your body is freaking out, and holding onto what it thinks it might need.

Stay off the scale, be kind to yourself!

Corina1143

All that they do to you during surgery. All the meds. All your body goes through. Now is not the time to worry about weight. Take care of your body. Eat at or even above tdee to fuel your recovery.
Best wishes for a quick and easy recovery!

Retroguy2000

Did you eat 33,000 calories each day?

If not, it's water.

AnnPT77

I "gained" water weight after gallbladder removal. For me, it took a little longer to drop off than most water retention, maybe up to a week or two, but drop off it did. It's water, not fat, no need to stress about it. Prioritize healing.

Please eat at maintenance calories during the acute phase of healing, small number of weeks at least. I didn't, instead tried to keep losing, and that was a bad mistake. Be smarter than I was.

yirara

IV fluids, healing, opioids used in anesthesia and pain control thereafter cause constipation, so many other things. Relax. Give your body time to heal.

ythannah

IV fluids and whatever else they pumped into you.

I needed emergency surgery in early 2021. Didn't know I would be getting surgery so I didn't remove my rings before heading to Emergency. They asked me to take them off before the op but there was no way those rings, which are normally pretty loose, were coming off my sausage fingers. I caught a glance at myself in the mirror and almost didn't recognize my face, it was so distorted by puffiness. And this despite not having eaten in over 24 hours at that point. I was on hardcore pain meds and an anti-emetic so not sure if it was those or the saline that made me swell up so badly.

Relax. It'll go away.

vingogly

FYI, a gallon of water is 8 pounds. So you have a little over a gallon of water weight. I had emergency surgery to have my gall bladder out years ago, and they couldn't do the surgery for a few days because I was on coumadin. I had two IVs in me during that period and I have no idea how much fluid they pumped into me as they tried to counteract the effect of the coumadin so they could get me into surgery. My pants wouldn't fit when I left the hospital, and they had to find a pair of huge pajama bottoms in the lost & found so I could be decent. Took about a week for the fluid to work itself out of my system.

totameafox

Don't worry about what you weigh after having surgery. You also should be eating the calories you require for the day until you are healed. Trying to lose weight while healing will only slow your healing.

claireychn074

When I had abdominal surgery (not for gall bladder) I naively thought I’d lose weight and come out of hospital smaller. I didn’t expect the swelling and fluid retention, so my clothes didn’t fit. I had to be wheeled out of the hospital with my trousers only pulled up to my thighs, and a towel and bag over my mid section to hide my bare tummy. Since then I’ve always had one bit of advice for anyone going in for surgery - BUY BIG UNDERWEAR!!

ETA: my surgery was quite big so it took me probably three months to lose the swelling and for the muscles to fully heal - during that time my weight yo-yo-ed up and down with the healing process. I held water weight each time I pushed the physical tasks as my body recovered. So don’t be surprised if it takes a while to completely settle.

jillybean4689

This is fluids. This happens when ypu have an IV. I left the hospital after abdominal hysterectomy and my ankles were huge. Weighed at home and i was 8lbs heavier! But the good news? The weight falls off very quickly, within days for me. So it is not weight gain just fluid.