pouch

there are some people that tell me you stretch your pouch.If this is so how and what do you do to cause this?Pam

You can stretch your pouch by eating to much. Your pouch will stretch a little on it's own but if you are over eating you will stretch it yourself. Be careful not to eat to much ... that is why we had the surgery to begin with!

Something I have learned is not to drink any carbonated beverages at all. Even diet soda. The carbonation can stretch your pouch.

Pam, First your pouch will stretch over time. My surgeon told me that by six months after surgery my pouch will have doubled in size. My stomach immediately after the operation was about 30 cc's which holds just a few teaspoons of food. I specifically asked my surgeon about stretching the pouch from overeating. He said, it can happen, but you would have to continiously over eat, large amounts of food for it to happen. I can't imagine myself, why anyone would want to eat so after surgery..cause one bite to many as I have found is very painful and very uncomfortable. Would not want to subject myself to that! Cheers, Gen