Question:
How soon post op can you eat bread?
— Rebecca H. (posted on March 26, 2003)
March 26, 2003
I'm 17 months post op and I still have to be careful of bread. It gets
balled up and can get stuck pretty easily. No way could I have it the first
6 months or so. What is weird is that I can have 1/2 a bagel with no
problem, just not a piece of bread. Toasting helps sometimes but not
always. This is just my experience, yours may be different.
— Kris T.
March 26, 2003
Everyone is different. Personally, I have not had a problem with bread
but it does take up room in the pouch which could be better served by
protein. If I go out and order, say a crab cake sandwich, I will take
the crab cake out of the roll and eat the crab cake first. Then, if there
is room, I will have a bite or two of the roll...JR
— John Rushton
March 26, 2003
I am 13 months out and still have to watch my bread intake. It makes me
feel yucky. I can eat sourdough based breads such as bagels and those
large pretzels. Sourdough breads tend not to swell as much but break down.
I am like the other poster...I limit my bread intake for nutritional
reasons but also because that was one of my weaknesses before surgery.
— Oldsoul
March 26, 2003
I am nearly three years post op and have to be careful with how much bread
I intake. If I decide to eat a subway sandwich (which is every blue moon) I
eat the inside and through away the bread. The bread feels like a rock at
the bottom of my stomach. Usually I may have a half of peanut butter
sandwich, but I just start eating that recently.
— Sharon T.
March 26, 2003
Bread has never been a favorite, I usually just ate bread for sandwiches.
But after my op I haven't had no cravings for it. when I eat bolonie and
cheese. I just roll it up. I had my wls on 12/6/02 and Haven't had bread
yet.
— Naes Wls J.
March 26, 2003
I am 6 months post-op and can't eat much bread at all. I have eaten a
mini-pita bread with turkey or tuna or even a veggie burger, but rarely
able to eat more than half of it. Be very careful with bread because as
the others said it can get stuck and make you very uncomfortable. I have
had a slice of garlic bread (small) and of course that is toasted well.
Remember, Protein always comes first=)
— EMN
March 26, 2003
I am 6 months out today and last night I had a hot dog on a bun for supper.
I ate all of it except 1 bite and it didn't bother me at all. I was able to
eat toast at 2 months.And bread at 3 months. I just started eatig buns
about 2 months ago. We are all different as to what foods we can handle. I
found out the best way for me to find out was trial and error. Brenda -97
lbs
— Brenda T.
March 26, 2003
I am almost 7 months post op and still can't eat bread. I have tried it
toasted till it was almost burnt and still can't get it to stay down.
However, I have no problems eating flour and corn tortillas, but I can only
eat half of one.
— salymsmommy
March 26, 2003
Rebecca, I have had no problem with Bread and have been eating since I was
6 wks out. IF THERE IS ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THIS SURGERY ITS
"THAT EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT", UNLESS YOU ARE A TWIN. I don't
CHOOSE to eat it, but, when I do, I have no porblem! Good Luck! Heather
(Open RNY 8/15 - 305/203/150)
— heathercross
March 26, 2003
hi i'm four months post op and i can eat bread untoasted.
unfortunatly for me i can eat a whole blt sandwhich on orawheat
bread. but talk about tortilla's and forget it, throw it up
everytime. best of luck to you. kimberly open distal bypass 11/12/02
-72lbs
— kimberly T.
March 26, 2003
Interesting to see the other responses, and if you learn anything from
them, its that we are all different in our post-op diets. Usually toast is
the first tolerable bread that a new post-op can handle, at around 3 weeks
post-op. The soft taco shells or flour tortillas are usually Ok and I have
been eating them with no problem since about 1 month post-op. I am able to
tolerate all breads, but try to stick to whole grain breads when I eat my
1/2 sandwich for lunch. The first few months I started eating sandwiches I
could only eat 1/2 the bread of the 1/2 sandwich, but at 14 months post-op,
no type of bread or roll bothers me now. It still fills the pouch too
quickly though so I try to minimize bread.
— Cindy R.
March 26, 2003
My surgeon's office doesn't allow us to eat ANY carbs of ANY kind (protein
ONLY) until we've lost 75% of our weight. Then we add carbs slowly,
starting with salad, vegies, and a little fruit. Bread, pasta, potatoes,
turn to sugar and are complex carbs and the worst kind of carbs for a
gastric bypass patient. Good luck!
— Cathy S.
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