Question:
Why does this happen...am I doing something wrong?
Hi all. I have asked similar questions like this but I am still so frustrated. This morning I ate a piece of toast. This is the first time I have eaten bread in 8 weeks. The toast went down fine, I felt fine. However, about half Hour later I tried to drink some liguid and it would not go down...or should I say it went down and just felt stuck and I had my spitting episodes and now I feel fine...but why on liguids??? Please help...somedays I feel really good about my decision and other days I wish I had my old tummy back!! Denise Open RNY 7/1/03 256/200/140 — Denise D. (posted on August 30, 2003)
August 30, 2003
A half an hour may be too soon for liquid after toast for you. I know that
if I tried to eat bread before 18 months out, it took FOREVER for it to go
through my pouch!! Liquids made me feel so gross, even an hour and a half
after!! Perhaps you need to consider doing without bread at all for at
least a year... it isn't so bad!! :~) Hugs!
— Sharon m. B.
August 30, 2003
I find this happens to me if I drink too soon after eating. I would try
waiting a little longer to drink. I did not eat bread until recently at 4
1/2 months out - I was scared it would get all gooey and get stuck in my
pouch.
— Barbara C.
August 30, 2003
(1): You are drinking too soon after eating
(2): I am seven months out and have only had about three peices of bread
the whole time. I didn't have any until about four months out.
— Delores S.
August 30, 2003
You drank before your puch had time to evacuate the mushy toast. Why on
liquids? the toast acted as a damn and the liquid had no where to go.
— M B.
August 30, 2003
10 mos post op and still cannot do bread. The upside to this: I don't
even WANT it. LOVE this surgery!! I hope I NEVER can do bread again.
— Ginger M.
August 30, 2003
I agree with everyone else - I think you ate bread -even toasted too soon.
It tends to gum up and is forming a dam keeping the fluid from going
through. I personally almost never eat breat. I amd 20 months post op and
had half a bacon sandwich this week - first sandwich I've had since
surgery.
— Patty_Butler
August 30, 2003
I could not do toast until 6 months. Bread is still touch and go for me.
Some days I can eat a couple of bites and then I have to stop (like with a
sandwich) and other days I can eat slowly, chew well and get down a whole
half of a sandwich. I've never eaten a whole sandwich. At six months I
was able to do one slice of toast with tea when I was sick and not eating
anything else but normally I can't do bread and liquids within hours of
each other.
— susanje
August 30, 2003
Hey Denise, your not doing anything wrong. Remember carbs are the enemy.
The surgery is just reminding you of that. I'm 6 months post and still get
queasy with just a bite of bread...Nea
— gyneasmith
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