Question:
I think my stomache is stretched out? Comments please? Thanks

   — whatnow (posted on January 23, 2007)

January 23, 2007
Carol, you can find out the size of your pouch by doing the Cottage cheese Test. On an empty stomach with a unopened container of Low Fat Cottage Cheese. Weigh/Measure it. The sit down and begin to eat Non-Stop. When your totally full. Weigh/Measure it again. This will indicate the size of your pouch. But as it feels we've stretched out our pouches, which may be. Eating Less by measuring and not grazing will help shrink your pouch feeling too. Get your attitude adjustly straight again and back on track as when you were first starting out and you'll be going in the right direction again. It take 30 day to change a habit. Just stick with your plans. You'll be happy. We'll be seeing you Lighter Later soon!
   — Michael Eak

January 23, 2007
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   — SweetMouna

January 24, 2007
First, whether or not your pouch is stretched is something that can only be determined by an endoscopy (or other procedure, like a CT scan that would allow a doctor to view your pouch). The cottage cheese test is wholly inaccurate for a number of reasons. Secondly, if your pouch is stretched you would be able to eat more (but, then again, you would be able to eat more if your stoma were stretcehd as well). Third, whether your pouch is stretched or not, hopefully, although it would be much more difficult if you are not feeling full from the foods you are eating, you are trying to stick to your post-operative eating program. Lastly, if you are concerned about your pouch please make it a point to check in with your surgeon.
   — SteveColarossi

January 24, 2007
The CC test is a totally inaccurate test to find out the size of you pouch. It is a soft food and cannot really test the fullness that you will feel or have and most of it slides right through anyways - it is too soft to do anything else. A Gastro doc MAY be able to see with a scope the size of your pouch but the only true way is for a doc to visually look at it from the outside in and that means that you have to have an incision from the skin side out. You did not say how far out that you are. The further out you are the more that you can eat. And that does not mean that if you are 4, 5 or 6 months out that you can eat yourself into oblivian. You need to follow your surgeon's guidelines for the amounts that you should have at a meal. For an early PO most can only get about 2 TBLS in at a meal and then it gradually increases with the natural stretching and healing of the stomach. I think some also think that they will only be able to eat what they could when they were able to eat food at first and that would be the amount that they would be able to eat for ever and ever. Not true. Go back to your NUT or doc and see what they say and let them be the judge. Chris
   — ChristineB

January 24, 2007
PS the standard for changing habits is 21 days not 30.
   — ChristineB