Upcoming Roux-en-Y

I'm good, thanks. It was nice to see a good core of people here when I came back. How are you doing?

yeah, many are hanging in there. I'm good. Health wise and other wise. Just older every day!

Ain't it the truth.

Some of us discovered that drinking plain water after RNY or any other surgery can be challenging. Even now, 15 years post op I often need to "flavor" my so I can drink 100oz or more.

Every one of us is different, some needed ice water, others did best with warm water, and there were the pones that wanted room temperature water.

Initially I needed to use some very mild flavoring, i.e. ginger tea (diluted), that not only helped with me being able to drink it - but also with nausea. Some used crystal light others Mio water, others - decaffeinated coffee or herbal teas... Whatever worked. It was easier for me to drink warm diluted chicken or vegetable broth than plain water.

Even now - I can sip on plain water but I can "guzzle" green tea, coffee, herbal teas, carbonated water (I don't recommend that in the first-year post op), and so on. Water infused with Fruit or vegetables can be great also.

Dirking enough liquids needs to be your job in the first few weeks. No matter what it takes. If nothing else worked - I ate SF popsicles.

I normally avoid artificial sweeteners and flavors - "crap" added to water, but first few months it was "whatever helped me drink my water that day".

Many of us post op WLS - developed aversion to sweet things. Suddenly. right after surgery, drinks we enjoyed just days before surgery - were completely undrinkable. Too sweet, too much "chemical taste:" - all together wrong. That eventfully passed for some protein drinks but not for others. Some protein drinks - ready- to- drink (RTD) or powders, made me gag or months after and I just gave them away, or changed for some I could tolerate. To this day - I develop on and off either craving for some foods - or aversion to foods that I used to love. Thankfully that is now on and off with no long-term aversions.

i.e. there was app 6 months that I had to have yellow mustard with anything... I would "eat" 2-3 jars of yellow mustard per week... It was mustard with meat... But as the cravings started suddenly - one day - they were gone. I'm more of a normal mustard person now. One jar of yellow mustard lasts me a year or 6 months.... lol. Then there was a month for "peanut butter"- I could get enough. These 2 are my most bizarre cravings. And no, I wasn't pregnant nor was there a possibility I could have been. Just crazy hormonal changes as my body were changing long term. These cravings happened a few years after I had the original surgery - most likely my body ran out of some minerals - micro-nutrition that my body felt were essential, but not typically tested during blood tests that my body needed.

Be prepared for a journey of your life.

Interesting, I have heard about taste buds changing right after surgery, but nothing about the cravings like you had. This is all great info so I know what types of things could happen even if they don't. I have a tendency to go wayyy overboard with looking into things, I'm a test engineer and digging into things to understand is pretty much my life at work, lol.

lol. I am am engineer myself. I HAVE to understand why most of the times. Some things - cant be really explained. I had to get used to it. Some things can be way too complicated and can change as times goes... we don't know enough about too many things...

Im a bit a "special case". I was dealing with and deal with different issues that either came to light because I had RNY,. or because I'm getting older, or just because. Some may be connected to some surgeries I had, as in surgery caused long term changes in my brain , even though they did nit operated on my brain. (i.e. post surgery effect, anesthesia long term side effect, meds combination+ anesthesia long terms ide effects...or getting to a supper low body fat% , getting a in total hormonal depletions state due to ???) And so on...

Too many variables that can show association but can't be proved as causation...

Absolutely, I have hypothyroidism, which has made my weigh a much bigger issue than it should be. My wife is a nurse, and when we first got married I was feeling horrible constantly, would sleep all day and still be tired and she forced me to go get a physical that I was long overdue for. Turns out my thyroid was completely dead. So after getting to the correct dose almost a year later I had gained over 80 lbs in one year. Yo-yo dieted a few times after and could never keep it off even running 3-5 miles a day and eating salads, one slip up and boom, 10 lbs that took months to get rid of.

You have received a lot of good advice about what needs to go into your body after surgery. But you also need a plan for how things are going to come out of your body. Between weight loss, Low liquids, painkillers, iron and calcium, postoperative constipation can be brutal. You should have a plan to deal with it and those little red Ducolax tablets that the hospital gave out weren't a plan for me. A significant portion of the RNY patients here use Miralax or a generic equivalent.

Yeah my doc said to get miralax so that's what I have on hand. Just woke up from a nap, surgery was no big deal. I'm sore around my diaphragm and the incision sites. One interesting thing I have experience that the anesthesiologist warned me about was an acid reflux like pain for a day or so afterward. The big issue with this pain he says is none of the pain killers they've tried worked on it. He said 1/10 ppl get it and I'm the lucky 1...