After battling morbid obesity for over 20 years, I have decided, one year ago, to have gastric sleeve surgery. This surgery makes the stomach a lot smaller so you can't eat a lot, and also eliminates the parts of the stomach which produce ghrelin, the hunger hormone.
I have lost a great deal of weight - 50% of the body weight was gone within 1 year.
I weighted 326 lbs (148 kg) one year ago, and I now weight 163 lbs (74 kg), so, at a height of 172 cm, I now have a BMI of 25 (normal weight).
I'm very happy with this result. I worked very hard for it, been very disciplined with my diet and did everything the doctor told me. I have taken a high quality multivitamin, fish oil and protein shakes every day.
However, I have a few problems:
- I feel extremely tired, no matter how I eat or how much I rest. I have very low energy. It's hard to get out of bed in the morning and very hard to work for 8 hours every day (I'm a computer programmer). Also, after work I barely have the energy to do anything - I just go home and sit in bed.
The situation improved a bit by taking armodafinil (300 mg) in the morning, but not by much. At least I arrive at work in time, most of the days.
- I look a lot older than I used to. Skin quality is bad.
- My face skin is very brown / dark yellow, like in old people. Picture included below. I used to have white skin.
- Depression. Perhaps due to the lack of energy and due to the fact that all I do is work and stay in bed.
Blood test results come out ok, including liver enzymes which are ok.
How can I fix the problems above? Will they ever improve? What can I do to fix them?
Edited by Dan1976, 02 September 2016 - 06:33 AM.