6 days out. pureed questions.

So, I made it! I'm 6 days out now, my surgery was on the 6th. Everything went well, no surprises My recovery is going great. I'm up and about, have been since the day after my surgery ( I was cruising in that hospital!) and have minimal pain. I took pain medications maybe once a day until today, and I didnt need it today. I'm on the liquid diet still (ugh, im tired of it!). Its hard because I dont get hungry but its hard to tell if your "full" when your on a liquid diet you know what I mean? Well here are my current issues: The Pureed Diet. I'm finding alot of people are surprised when I say my liquid stage is only a week. A week from the day I passed my Upper GI, so that means Sunday I can start Pureed food. The Pureed diet lasts 2 weeks. Soft foods follows that, for another 2 weeks. Then its all foods as tolerated. Alot of people are on liquids I guess for 2 or 3 weeks ??? Here is my question. I'm tired of liquid. I can go to pureed on Sunday. Would it hurt if I started a couple days early, just a little bit? They said I can have things like, mashed taters, yogurt, cottage cheese, ect. Do I need to blend them? Like, yogurt is pretty much soft as it is, would I still need to put it in the blender? Thats about it. Oh, does anyone know if you can have Crystal Light ? At the stage I'm at right now. ????

hey.. i know u dont want to hear this... but id totally wait the few days.... because honestly.. i had the liquid stage for TWO WEEKS BEFORE surgery... that was it.. all liquids, EWWW. And two weeks after! it was h3ll but it was worth it! really... I just had surgery 7 weeks ago.. i mean, the first 2 weeks after were still liquid, and then 2 more of soft pureed... cottage cheese, apple sauce, mashed taters.. lala. So really.. just wait :D everything is going great u said, so make sure it stays that way, ya know :D It does suck, and i know its hard, but itll be worth it... And as far as crystal light.. everyone is different.. but they gave me crystal light at the hospital even... i took home little packets... I'm almost positive its fine, it was for me, but ask to be sure :D Good luck, and congrats :D

Well, its only a couple days. I'm just impatient. lol. I talked to them and they said I could have jello now, so that makes the two days not so bad. lol. But thanks for the input, and Congrats to you too!!

see my doctor is putting me on the purred food from the get go... i dont have to do a liquid diet :/ so i think it all depends on your doctor...he know how big he make the stoma...and how much can pass through. i would just listen to his "rules".

The liquid part i think is the worst. Moving from the liquid to the pureed/soft foods was super difficult because i had to learn how much and what i could and couldn't tolerate. I was pretty much on the pureed diet for the first 3 months because my stomach was so senstivity to everything except fat free refried beans, cottage cheese, yogurt, and queso fresco. I think that you should just wait till just to make sure, you know. I mean I doubt anything would happen since you passed the upper gi but bring foods will make the equation a little more difficult at first. Plus it allows your new pouch a little more time to heal. I had crystal light the first day out of the hospital on the liquid part. I even started to make crystal light poplicles and italian ice.

I did talk to someone at the surgeons office and they said I could have Crystal Lite. Thank God I was dying for some flavor!! Thanx to all the answers. But I have another question. Do all the foods on the Pureed list need to be pureed? Like cottage cheese? Maybe this was answered, lol and I'm missing it ?

Bleh, I was supposed to be on a pureed diet for 6 weeks (right out of the hospital) but I ended up eating any remotely soft foods withing 2 or 3 weeks. I was just rather paranoid about chewing a whole lot.