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Anyone having issues with gaining weight after liver transplant?
Transplants | Last Active: Dec 13, 2025 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
My transplant is 8 weeks ago
And my weight is down 50 lbs. I get around just fine but food is just now starting to taste good. Liver transplant.
Anyone else have this problem
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@chuckhorse absolutely i lost 60 lbs and I was at 123 from 185 and it took awhile to gain back weight. I drank very high calorie protein drinks 480 calories ea plus it had the vitamins I needed. After almost 3 years food is tasting better plus everything i liked before wasn’t on my new doctor recommended diet,stay away from all fast foods and restaurants, no sushi or undercooked meat all well done, im back to 185 and staying healthy my surgical scar prevents me from getting fat or it’s very painful, I don’t get hunger pains so i just graze during the day and a very small dinner good luck with your health and recovery it’s gonna be at least a year
@chuckhorse, congrats on the new liver. You might also be interested in this discussion related to taste.
- Loss of taste after liver transplant https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/loss-of-taste-after-liver-transplant/
I'm glad to hear that your sense of taste has started to improve. How are you doing?
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@chuckhorse
Yes. I just told someone else in this chat the same thing.
After being 245 lbs. before liver transplant and rejection 10 months after I was 133 lbs.
Food and I didn’t get along.
It will pass. You will get your tastebuds back in no time. It gets better every day and one step at a time.
Be well and be blessed.