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

debbiem1966
debbiem1966 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Please someone help me understand such a huge gain in just 48 hrs.

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,553 Member
    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
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,069 Member
    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
    Retroguy2000 Posts: 1,926 Member
    Did you eat 33,000 calories each day?

    If not, it's water.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,009 Member
    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
    yirara Posts: 10,029 Member
    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
    ythannah Posts: 4,376 Member
    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.
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 183 Member
    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.
  • jillybean4689
    jillybean4689 Posts: 1 Member
    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.

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