Four years along with gastric bypass surgery. Am I seeing a new situation right now?
If I don’t eat enough I get stomach aches. They are literally hunger pains. When I eat something, they go away.
Every so often something in my metabolism (maybe?) changes and instead of being able to go a few hours without getting any pain, I get maybe an hour and a half or so. I get pain much faster, and it’s a little more severe. This has happened 3–4 times since the surgery. It lasts about a week then it stops and goes back to “normal”. I assume I have a virus or something that affects my metabolic rate and I just have to ride it out.
I’m in one of those periods right now and it’s lasted a couple of weeks. Longer than usual… if usual is even a thing. I think there was one instance where it was longer than this but it’s hard to remember. This time though… am I seeing something different?
When my stomach is hurting and I eat something, the pain goes away. When I drink though… drinking water didn’t used to have much of an affect at all. This time? I think I am starting to notice that drinking water actually makes me feel worse. Even more, there have been a couple of times in the last few days where I was feeling okay, I had a drink, and I started hurting?
What?
Water hurts and food helps? What the fuck, stomach? I’m ready to go back to “normal” now, thanks.
In other, unrelated news, our HBO Max subscription (which is a bundle with Disney and Hulu) doesn’t include House of the Dragon? Really? The fuck?
Inside the Red Head's Head 
This was both fascinating and relatable to read. Four years after surgery, you’d think your stomach would have signed a long-term peace treaty with you by now, yet it still manages to surprise you with new plot twists!
What struck me most was your honest observation of the patterns and changes you’ve experienced over time. The fact that food brings relief while water seems to aggravate things right now certainly sounds puzzling and understandably frustrating. Our bodies can be wonderfully resilient and incredibly mysterious at the same time.
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