Puking up foam, not able to keep anything down 3 days post-op..
hello community! I am a 26 year old female who just had gastric sleeve on Wednesday 08/16/16. First day post-op I was in ice chips only, yesterday I tried two sips of apple juice and felt unwell. So now I'm third day post-op tried to have a Popsicle, puked it up with foam.. Had a sip of water, puked it up with foam.. Now tried a small sip of protein shake and can't keep that down either. Is this normal with this surgery this early on? I'm worried I won't get my fluid or protein in.
UPDATE! Fourth day post op I feel much better and was able to have a cup of chicken broth and a green passion smoothie. ? Thank you all for the help in responses. I'm grateful to you all that I don't feel so alone with that scary situation. I would delete this, but not sure how. Thank again!!!! ??
If you can't keep anything down even with taking only small sips, you should probably call your surgeon's office. While I struggled to get in all my fluids the first few days - felt uncomfortable going down because of the swelling, it never came back up. have you tried different temperatures? maybe room temp or slightly warm - I will say barely warm broth was the easiest thing for me to get down intially.
I tried room temp water and it doesn't work. I'm going to try broth and see how I do. Thank you!
Thank you all for trying to help me I feel much better now today being my fourth day post-op!!! I was able to have a cup of chicken broth AND a green passion smoothie, taking small sips but it all went down. I'm happy I know I can hydrate!!!!! Thank you guys again! I'll be taking the post down soon..
