NEED HELP WITH PROTEIN!!!!!!

Well, finally after two months of puking, feeling nausea all the time, and my stomach and side feeling like I am being stabbed,they have finally figured out that my gallbladder needs to come out. YEAH!!!! I didn't think I would be happy, but I have never felt so sick for so long in my life. Thank goodness Dr. Geller is going to take this thing out, but I have to wait at least two more weeks!!!! His office is so busy and he is short staffed that they have not scheduled my surgery yet. I had to wait 1 1/2 weeks to get the results from my Hida Scan, but I only trust him to do surgery again, so I will have to wait. I am still having HUGE problems getting my protein in. With being sick all the time, I can't eat or drink much at all. Went to my PCP last week because I was so swollen and gained 2 pounds. I couldn't believe it. I have lived on 20 goldfish crackers a day and a little water for over a month. I am walking almost 2 miles a day and do water aerobics 3 times a week. He told me my body is in starvation mode and hanging onto whatever it can. I have tried countless protein shakes, bars, and even soups, but in less than 20 minutes, they come back up, and I am sick for the rest of the day and in pain, but my PCP tells me that I need to get more protein in asap. or I will be in big trouble. Does anyone have any ideas what, if anything I can try. It was so difficult for me to decide to have this surgery and now that I have, I don't want to mess it up.

hi ana, i use gnc gold standard powder,it had 24 grms protein, i mix it with carbcount down milk and a bananna in a blender and i add a little splenda, i freeze the milk in a cup just till it is slushey,it makes it taste like a milkshake,the powder comes in like 5 flavors,vanilla ice cream,choc,choc peanut butter, i use the choc in the morning times,i mix it with milk and warn it up like hot choc........they will let you return it,if you don't like it.........................vickie r. 242/150/136

Hey Ana so sorry to hear how sick you are. I had my gallbladder out several years ago and I thought I would die before getting it out. I use Body Fortress from Walmart. The chocolate is really good with skim milk, tablespoon peanut butter, half a banana, and some ice cubes. It is really smooth and I don't get an after taste. Hope you find one that works, I can't imagine how bad I would feel without them. - Vicki

Ana I am so sorry you are having such problems. I swear by the unjury. The unflavored worked good with tomato soup , really and of the can soups. I still to this day, 8 and half months out drink 2 unjury shakes a day. I love the chocklate and vanella. I use my hand held mixer with a few pieces of ice sometimes with the chocklate I add a spoon of peanut butter. It is hard especially if the taste bothers you. The unjury is the only one I could use and of course you have to order it on line but they do have samples you can try. Good luck, I pray that everything goes well. Jane 296/166/154

Ana, we all have different taste so you will probably try lots of things before you settle on something you like.. I went to websites that advertise here on OH..like profect, bariatriceating.com. Vitalady.com.just to name a few. They will send you samples to try or you can purchase packages for around 1.99... I never purchased tubs of it until I found what I liked, that took me almost a year! I am further out and can do different types now... At 3 yrs. out I still do at least 1 a day, I have one for breakfast everymorning but the rest I get from meats. Hang in there and keep searching for something that strikes your taste.. I think the first one I did was from GNC..can't remember the name now but it wasn't think like most of them ...if you stop in often times they have some made up for you to try ..at least that;s how I did it. Brenda

I just came back from my 3 month check up & I had protein ?'s too. One of the nurses at Georgetown has liquid protein that has 25 grams in it & it's like 3 oz. I don't know how it tastes but she said she sales a lot of it. Their # is 888-868-0008. Good luck Ana.

I'm having protein issues too. I got one today and thought I was going to be able to drink it but before I was half way through the bottle of water (with the protein added to it), I had to stop. The mix (which is liquid) smells like death. I am NOT kidding. I've never smelled anything we are suppose to put in our mouth smell so horrible in my life. I told the nurse it smelled like death, she smelled it and said it smelled like walking up to a corpse. It's horrible. I have a $30.00 bottle that is unopened I HOPE they will take back. Brenda, I'm going to check out the sites you said are here. I am not getting any protein in in the form of shakes/drinks right now. The doc and his nurse both told me today that I HAVE to have protein supplements because the meat, eggs, etc... will not give me enough protein throughout the day. I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle here with the protein issue and was resigned to just give up and do the best I can with Tuna and stuff. I hope I can find something my body can tolerate. Going to check it out now. Gale