Water -post op

After surgery do you always have to take small sips of water, or can you drink like you normally would. I am not talking immediatly post op, but down the road. If it is small sips only I would think a water bottle would be glued to your mouth all day.

Thanks in advance.

I'm 8 weeks out and I can take large drinks of water.. aka a "normal" drink... however I haven't tried to guzzle it like you would if you were super thirsty, mostly because I'm no longer EVER super thirsty.  I don't know about others but sitting at a desk all day I keep a 1 liter (33 oz) bottle of water right beside me. I know I need to get one of those down by lunch, then work on the second one and sometimes the beginning of a third by the time I go to bed. You find a kind of rythm to your drinking, if that makes any sense.

It makes perfect sense- after all, we share a brainwave I was REALLY hoping I would not be stuck with the itty-bitty sips for life.

Thanks

You won't be. I can drink "normally" - I can even guzzle. I'm 2 1/2 years out.

lol.. well I'm GLAD someone understands me!

I started guzzling at about 3 months out.  I was always thirsty and it was hard for me to slow down!

I'm already able to take bigger sips, not normal swallows yet, but definitely more at each swallow.  I'm also able to drink cold again.