new "teeth" and chewing worries
Good morning,
Everyone did such an excellent job in answering my letter yesterday, I am going to change the subject today. In addition to getting as ready as possible for my surgery this summer, I have also been having a lot of dental work done, getting a new lower partial plate. Finally yesterday, I got it put in, after weeks of prep work. I have been worried from the beginning of my journey towards surgery about all the required chewing. I know that this device will become more easily worn as time passes, but right now, I can't picture being able to do the fine chewing necessary. I am sure that others have faced similar problems, so let me hear from you. I can, of course, grind things up in the food processor, but I have been told that I should not depend on this for very long. Plus, I have to be able to eat out, etc. I noticed on the Today show this morning that Al Roker was eating some Chinese fare, and he didn't appear to chew it very long at all. He appeared to eat very normally, and quickly. As time passes, are we able to do this??? I have never been a very fast eater, which should help me in this way.
As a kind of second part to my morning question, I also went for the long visit to my nutritionist yesterday and even though I have been trying to get my head wrapped around all of the aspects of surgery for a very long time, I felt myself worrying about remembering each little detail. Especially the rules of those first few days and weeks. I guess that those days will really make me turn to all of you nice people! However, I know that the "rules" of eating are very different from surgeon to surgeon, so I might get conflicting answers. As one reads from profile to profile, I can't believe the vast differences in those first few months of eating.
Well, I have to run off again, for almost all day, so I will be anxious to return home this evening and see what everyone has to say!
Have a wonderful day! And thanks! Cathy
Everyone did such an excellent job in answering my letter yesterday, I am going to change the subject today. In addition to getting as ready as possible for my surgery this summer, I have also been having a lot of dental work done, getting a new lower partial plate. Finally yesterday, I got it put in, after weeks of prep work. I have been worried from the beginning of my journey towards surgery about all the required chewing. I know that this device will become more easily worn as time passes, but right now, I can't picture being able to do the fine chewing necessary. I am sure that others have faced similar problems, so let me hear from you. I can, of course, grind things up in the food processor, but I have been told that I should not depend on this for very long. Plus, I have to be able to eat out, etc. I noticed on the Today show this morning that Al Roker was eating some Chinese fare, and he didn't appear to chew it very long at all. He appeared to eat very normally, and quickly. As time passes, are we able to do this??? I have never been a very fast eater, which should help me in this way.
As a kind of second part to my morning question, I also went for the long visit to my nutritionist yesterday and even though I have been trying to get my head wrapped around all of the aspects of surgery for a very long time, I felt myself worrying about remembering each little detail. Especially the rules of those first few days and weeks. I guess that those days will really make me turn to all of you nice people! However, I know that the "rules" of eating are very different from surgeon to surgeon, so I might get conflicting answers. As one reads from profile to profile, I can't believe the vast differences in those first few months of eating.
Well, I have to run off again, for almost all day, so I will be anxious to return home this evening and see what everyone has to say!
Have a wonderful day! And thanks! Cathy
Lower dentures are always difficult to adapt to.....we don't have as much gum for them to adhere to, so that's why they don't fit as good as uppers....
My dietician told us at first when we started "real" food to take a full 30 minutes to eat a small meal, chewing meat at least 25 times per bite. Now at nearly a year out, it is okay to take 20 minutes for a meal, but I still chew dense
meat at least 25 times....somethings just grind up easier than others.
I applaud you for asking lots of questions, Cathy. It know it sure helped me to ask about things.
Pat R.
My dietician told us at first when we started "real" food to take a full 30 minutes to eat a small meal, chewing meat at least 25 times per bite. Now at nearly a year out, it is okay to take 20 minutes for a meal, but I still chew dense
meat at least 25 times....somethings just grind up easier than others.
I applaud you for asking lots of questions, Cathy. It know it sure helped me to ask about things.
Pat R.
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You will only break the rules once or twice before you are hit with a huge pain in your chest. Food not chewed well, sits in the pouch and hurts plus, you may be like me and be unable to eat dense protein like steak. I go for the alreay soft foods like lunch meat, tuna, cottage cheese, and chicken that is falling off the bones. Yep, and the rules are easy to follow. Youeat sugar, you hurl. You don't chew, you hurt. You eat to fast, youhave to lie down. Youeat to much fat, you get the ****s. simple. LOL
Thanks for your replies. I am sure that things DO need to be chewed well, but I was mainly wondering if anyone else had limited chewing abilities, and how they managed that. I know that even now, I swallow a lot of things that are not nearly chewed up as well as one should. Alas, another thing that happens to us when we age! I know that I will have to be very very careful.
I think you will have to get use to cutting things much smaller than normal...especially protein. I have a hard time eating things tha are not "slippery"...I put mustard or sauce on my meat and salad dressing on my chicken.....that helps, but cutting things very small is the best for you. It is good you eat slowly.
Hugs, Marti
ps..did you "Move to Lose" today? I did weights today.
Hugs, Marti
ps..did you "Move to Lose" today? I did weights today.
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone is fighting some kind of battle"
I have dentures upper and lower. I've always been bad about chewing so I've asked my husband to start now before my surgery on Sept. 9th to remind me when we are eating to chew my food really good. This is helping me get into the habit of it now so hopefully I won't have any problems after surgery.
Hope this helps.
Sherie
Hope this helps.
Sherie
Hello Sherie,
I appreciate finding your message this morning about chewing, etc. I see that your surgery is the day before mine, so maybe we could compare notes along the way, if you would like. I am hoping that as time passes, I will adjust more to my partial plate. Right now, it is all new to me, and feels like George Washington's wooden teeth! I only got it on Monday. I am supposed to go back today for some further adjustments. I wore it for a little over 5 hours yesterday, and ended up taking it out.
I looked at your profile and it looks like we both like little white dogs! I have a ****zu named Abbie, who is like a real second daughter to me. She was a rescue dog last year.
I still have scary thoughts that maybe I will regret this surgery, but I hope that I will feel like most of the people I read about, who say they would do it all again.
Well, good luck to you and hopefully in a few months, we will both be well on our way to a much more healthy life.
Have a great day! Cathy
I appreciate finding your message this morning about chewing, etc. I see that your surgery is the day before mine, so maybe we could compare notes along the way, if you would like. I am hoping that as time passes, I will adjust more to my partial plate. Right now, it is all new to me, and feels like George Washington's wooden teeth! I only got it on Monday. I am supposed to go back today for some further adjustments. I wore it for a little over 5 hours yesterday, and ended up taking it out.
I looked at your profile and it looks like we both like little white dogs! I have a ****zu named Abbie, who is like a real second daughter to me. She was a rescue dog last year.
I still have scary thoughts that maybe I will regret this surgery, but I hope that I will feel like most of the people I read about, who say they would do it all again.
Well, good luck to you and hopefully in a few months, we will both be well on our way to a much more healthy life.
Have a great day! Cathy
Hi, I had to have a large molar removed couple years ago cuz I could not affort a root canal. Now I'm only able to chew on the left. I've thought about getting a partial but now with surgery in my near future, I want to wait till I lose wt then get that taken care of. I'll just have to take more time chewing and find out what my limits will be as far as texture/amts.
You'll do fine. Just be mindful of what the texture is of the bite that you are chewing before you swallow. If heard that it should feel like no texture left by the time you get done chewing properly.
You'll do fine. Just be mindful of what the texture is of the bite that you are chewing before you swallow. If heard that it should feel like no texture left by the time you get done chewing properly.
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