Back home after RNY-9 day update

sidsid
on 5/24/12 9:00 pm
Hi Everyone, thanks so much for the support!!!!!!!!!!

Been a rough 9 days but getting some repreives now where I don't have nausea.
Been impossible to eat or drink much with the nausea, during the few mild nausea hours want real food like 5 pieces of penne.
So sick of yoghart, not interested in anything sweet ( apple sauce etc) makes gag.
Weight is falling off, probably most of it is water and couldn't/can't stomach much food
13 lbs in 9 days - toooo fast.
If at 9 days you can tolerate soft solids ( penne ) can start adding them carefully???

Had 2 sips of a McD. fruit smoothie yesterday, tasted and felt great ( needed calories, isnt that a change in thinking hey?) Experienced dumping for the first time.
Wow not 5 mins later had terrible left sided abdo pain for 30-45 mins. Guess it was sweeter than it tasted. Wow hard introduction to dumping.
Incisions healing beautifully.
So sick of TV ( and my own company), anyone else get nausea for so long?
lisaterr
on 6/20/12 10:43 am - Canada
Hi I am new to this site and so glad I can talk about my surgery and hard times i go through. I am post-op 6 weeks and I still have nausea, I noticed that well i have a major infection so I think or hopee its the perscription thats making me sick goes away. I have been reading your message and I find it that my nausea never started till 2 weeks home. I cannot tolerate my vit pills anymore but I take them I gag everytime i take them do you experience this as well? I cannot even drink those ensure drinks at all they make me sick to my stomach. I agree yogurt is just blah now, How are you coping with keeping up with your protien and vitamins?
sidsid
on 6/20/12 11:28 pm
 sorry to hear you are still nauseous, there is nothing worse. If the nausea started at the same time you started this prescription, get another antibiotic. There are many types, I remember having one (years ago) that was rough on the stomach. That's my suggestion anyway.
As for the vit. pill, it seems go down okay if I take it when I feel okay,no consitant timing. The flavor is there as it dissolves.
Protein is still a challenge, I am trying to eat more shellfish (scallops, smoked oysters on a cracker etc) as shellfish is really high in protein.
i eat what I crave and that is not sweet stuff eg ensure tooooo sweet, protein shake too sweet. So I am eating cheese and meat/fish/shellfish every meal. A meal might consist of 2 ritz crackers loaded with cheese, 1/4 beef soup. Such tiny meals. I know I am not getting the protein in. I visited a friend the other night, she is over a year out. She can eat 2 cups of food now, I will be thrilled to get to 1 cup ( long way off ) then you can look like you can eat.
I wasnt able to return to work at 3 weeks. I will go back on Jul 3rd. 
was so weak, now getting stronger. I think my blood sugar was so low it was making me sick too. I am not a diabetic but if I tried to force down some ensure with coffee ot anything sweet I was so sick. The dietican thought that I was so sensitive to the sugar spike so I now drink/sip a perrier/pure OJ mix and it seems to have helped even out the blood sugar so ot so hypoglycemic.
I am hoping to go to Popeyes today and get samples of different proteins, I plan to hide in soup or coffee or something. Can't do hot drinks yet, you noticed your taste is heightened? hope I drnk coffee again one day.
eating is such a challenge, I am going to eat what I crave because I have to eat. So yesterday made thick beef tomato borcht, cheese crackers and pickles, a perogy, if I cant desire the food I will not get it down pyschologically. Mt dietician is very supportive, that helps a lot.
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