trouble with food & drink?

anyone else have trouble with eating & drinkin? i am calling my surgeon on tuesday. enough is enough. some days aren't too awful bad on eatin, others i feel like i am gonna die! i sure hate to think this could always be this way!

HI Bonnie! I too have days where things go well and then the days I try and eat something I have had before and it either gets stuck or makes me ill. I have read that tolerating foods one day and then not being able to another is normal but it is frustrating. I go back to my Doc on Tues and I am pretty certain I am not getting enough food in daily and he going to say that is why I have not lost more. I am trying to have faith things will get better! Kelli

kelli, hi! it's not even handling food 1 day & not the next. it is almost all foods. i know i am not getting my fluids in, i can't! if i drink too much or too often, i get the foamies.ackkkkkkkkk! i definetly cannot handle meat! veal was the only thing i have handled so far, but that is not an everday meal! i am quite sure i will end up with an i.v. here in the near future, but there is nothing i can do to prevent it! i cannot do popsicles, either, they make me gag. i can only chomp on so much ice a day! lol next i will need a dentist! sorry to complain, i am just tired of feeling sick! hope you are doing MUCH better with this than i am!!! bon

Hi I am sick every day. The bad breath and tolerating food and liquids is a constant battle. On wednesday I will be 4 weeks post op. I struggle every day. I am soooooo sickened with nausea and diarrhea. I do not sleep at all. I was readmitted to the hospital last Thurs and stayed overnight. Nothing helps. Now I have the worst hemmoroids. I am beside myself. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them. I am starting to believe that perhaps i made the wrong decision. Rose

rose, i went to the e.r. today, i was sure i was dehydrated. my potassium was very low. i did get an i.v. & a bag of potassium. i honestly do not know if i feel better or not. i made some homemade mashed potatoes & they are helping, i also made homemade chicken & dumplins. i cannot eat the chicken, but the dumplins helped. i know these are starches, but i have lost 33 lbs since the 4th of august, so i am not gonna worry about it. i do miss meat, terribly, i miss ALOT of things! but i can live without them for a while. the e.r. dr. gave me a prescription, for reglan to help me eat. also gave me a nausea suppository (oh joy!) for when the reglan doesn't help & i am throwing up. i know the also make patches for nausea, you might look into that. if ya want any of my homemade recipes for the comfort foods, let me know. it's better to get something in, rather than nothing at all! good luck, bonnie

I had open RNY 8/23/2005. Today my body didn't like the canned chicken with diet miracle whip at all and I felt I had horrible indigestion so decided on safe strawberry yogurt. I am throwing that away, feels hard to get down. I am going to make another fresh peach Protein drink and finish the day with liquids. Nobody seems to say how hurtin the ribs are and the stomach area feels like the brax and Hix contractions when you are pregnant. I have heard so little about people with PAIN after. My Dr after much phone calls finally authorized a refill of pain killer altho this is a lot more mild than the stuff I got after the hospital release. Do any of you have a horrible sharp pain when you breathe deeply like in your lungs? I guess since I already knew I had ZERO pain tolerance I am experiencing my inner body sore from being touched when I was opened up to take out the gall bladder and do the pouch. ANY BODY ELSE OUT THERE IN CYBER WORLD who has a very hard time with the healing of our inner body??????