Congrats, Grateful, and welcome to the group. A couple of questions.... what was your starting weight? where are you now? what was your average A1C prior to surgery? Were you diabetic?
I ask the blood sugar questions because you are describing ME on a regular basis. My surgery was 2 1/2 years ago and I am below my goal weight, fighting to try to gain some back and hopefully maintain about 135 lbs. After I'd lost about 100 lbs I started crashing. I was so intent on not screwing up that I did it to the letter. If the menu said an ounce of this or a cup of that or drink this or that, I did it. So basically, I was getting so little natural sugar and almost no carbs (because I have never been able to eat much). The first time I crashed was horrible. I just felt like garbage. All I wanted to do was sleep. I did call the surgeon's office. I went to see him and following the visit with his nurse practitioner, she escorted me to the nutritionist.
What it came down to was I just plain wasn't getting enough to eat, my blood work was just fine, within the norms but on the lower end of things. I'd started feeling...icky. I can't even really describe it, but I understand what you mean when you say you just don't feel good. Unless you've been there, there is no way you can know what that means. Bottom line, my blood sugar kept taking dramatic drops. End result...I now carry those little pixie sticks of sugar and/or hard candy with me. Everywhere I go, I have at least one piece of something sugar. If I start to feel like I really don't feel well, I pop a candy. For me, that works. I would never have done that had the nurse practitioner and nutritionist not said it was okay.
Pat is so right, cut out the caffeine. We aren't supposed to have that...and certainly no carbonated drinks or alcohol. Re-evaluate what you are eating and drinking. Go talk to your nutrionist. You could always print off what responses you have here and show them to her/him and see what advice you are given.
I hope you do find some relief for feeling so poorly. It's horrible to feel icky and makes one feel so helpless. Please keep us informed on how you are doing.
Letrell
