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@cdnmom Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. How discouraging to expect a certain time frame for recovery, only to find out that is not the case. You picked a great conversation to be a part of.

Have you asked your physician if they can check for gallstones? They have done studies that show an increase of gallstones and gallbladder disease in patients who have had stomach/intestinal surgeries.

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Not yet, but I will ask when I next see him. I will say that I increased my water intake to the maximum amount I could tolerate, and that seemed to help (thanks for the tip!) . Also, nearly exactly at the three month mark, my stomach finally released the stiffness it had had since surgery, and I had a few days of it being soft and palpable. I immediately added in exercise probably too quickly, and noticed that on this fourth day it has stiffened again a little bit, but it’s still better than it was. So there’s one story for those searching about how quickly you can expect recovery. In terms of how far along my recovery is, I can walk about one or two miles flat right now (hills continue to slay me), I’m allowed to do five minutes on the bike, and my physiotherapy still looks mostly like stretches. But I’m feeling pretty good.