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Two flintstones completes / day. Our Nut says no gummies.

Angryviking, we have the same date :-) 3 wks today for my husband and I. I'm doing well and feeling VERY similar to you exceptI don't feel full and my stomach growls an hour after eating. I feel like I can eat more than the 2 oz I eat. I'm trying to eat every 3 hrs. Drinking anything is such an annoying chore. I wish there was a recipe book for this stage with only the foods our nut allows because I am clueless. Lol. I also wish we could eat normal Breakfast foods. I guess that'll just take time and we'll, I'm not so great with patience. Lol I'm frustrated as to why our nut/dr doesn'tallow his patients to eat some of the things everyone else (it seems) can eat at this point from what I'm reading. I hope to not see our bariatric dr again. I will see our nut, not that she's much help though, but I do not want to talk to the dr. I hope I can just go to our family Dr for blood work and pay him rather than the jerk bariatric surgeon w had who never even looked at me, made me suffer in pain, and makes me feel like I'm a bother with his time. My husband is still feeling kind of crappy and lethargic. I'm frustrated about that too. I just want him to be back to normal. So does he. He is kind of regretting doing this right now. I hope he feels differently next year. Otherwise I'm up and about, have been for a week and a half and walking 1-2 miles/day. Down 28.

I have the same problem Pik, not getting in enough liquids, only because I hate drinking (unless I'm exercising). :/

Congrats and welcome to stage two!! :-) But aw man I'm jealous!! My nut said no soup, not even pea soup because it's high in sugar or something and Soups go right through you, and no cream cheese, and no this and no that. I can only eat weekdays on our list. Sigh. It's so hard to do when I hear others can eat yummy stuff like you are. I don't get it.

Our dr said nausea is normal. Could be nothing, could be a week, could be longer. Everyone is different. If you are vimiting though, that's different.

My nut says it's fine for whenever since I don't like plain water. I prefer Mio though. I also add Nectar brand protein flavors to water that way I get the water intake and protein all in one.

So I just ate 2 oz easy (2.5 wks post surgery), I never feel satisfied or full and an hour later I'm hungry and stomach is growling. Wth? Frustrating

I hope you don't and are on the mend now. Well be thinking about you. Do you still have that pain? That could be part of the pancreatiris. I'm assuming they had you on iv antibiotics, right?

Thanks carol. I'm doing what the nut said to do and the max is 2 oz every 3 hrs our so during the day. Always protien first and from the food on their list. She makes it sound like I shouldn't even be able to eat that much but I feel like I could eat more. Is just frustrating.

Have they done a ct scan of your abdomen to see if you don't have a clot too like my husband does with your same symptoms?

I think that's the stall I've read about. I'm stalled too. Instead of losing pounds we will lose inches. I hope.

Yay!! My husband's home from the hospital!

Two and a half weeks out, down 26 and STUCK. Still trying to get this eating foods thing down. It's hard! Not the actual eating part, that's going fine with no problems, except that I don't feel hungry or full, but eating 4-5 times per day. Blah. Lol

My husband can't be on vit k due to being on Coumadin fir the next three months from a blood clot from surgery (pancreatits as well). Does your multivitamin have vit k in it? We need to find one that sits not have vit k.

Our Flintstones do have vit k at 25%. They are Flintstones complete with iron. The nut said they are ok to take because he needs the vitamins and the drs well be closely monitoring his levels fir the blood clot and will make any adjustments if needed. Thanks everyone for the back up suggestions! :-)

Ugh. Again, another conflict with Drs and orders. So frustrating.

So I got the clear to move on to stage two so I ate pureed tuna with light mayo. I ate 2 oz and don't feel that full feeling I hear so much about. Don't feel much of anything for that matter. Is this normal?

Well, I had this problem before surgery too. I didn't care to eat until my stomach finally grumbled mid afternoon. This is such a chore. And when I don't feel full I think why even bother. But I know it's supposed to be healthier to eat regularly so I'll have to force eat but when I do I'm not losing any weight so my mind thinks it's the food's fault. This sucks. I was so happy to be able to eat food and now that I can I don't want to to be bothered. I'd rather just drink the protein drinks.

Wtf??!!! My husband was readmitted to the hospital last Wednesday for pancreatitis and blood clot from his sleeve surgery on the 18th. The hospital has been letting him drink apple juice but we are not allowed to drink it outside of the hospital (I got rny on the 18th also). They gave him cream of wheat, vanilla pudding and one other food today that are all not on our list to eat and were strict not to have it on our paperwork from bariatric office, PLUS sleevers don't eat food until 3 wks out (according to our surgeons office)and that's next Friday. Wtf???? So does that mean I can eat that crap too??? He needs protein!! They are not helping him start this in a good way and he doesn't say anything or ask anything and he thinks I'm being ridiculous for this concern. I'm mad at them and my husband for not standing up for himself and his health!

Ya, I couldn't drink that chicken broth. It was discusting. They have me Apple juice too, and not sugar free and I had a bypass. I don't understand why they don't have a bariatric diet. Crazy. He has sf chocolate pudding, sf vanilla pudding, tomato Soup, cream of wheat, and I forget what else, all of which are not on our approved food list and are shitty foods to eat but Dr ordered them. Didn't even order him a banana, lf cottage cheese, greek yogurt and all that with good Protein and nutrients and I'm sure the hospital has this stuff. I don't get it. I hate this dr. For more than just this. I should have trusted my gut last Saturday and brought him to the ER, even after I called the Dr to tell him he's not doing well at all and all he said was to drink more Water. Made my husband suffer 4 more days until post op appt. That's the second time I should have trusted my gut. The first time was at orientation when I didn't have a good feeling about him and the way he answered me after I asked him a simple question. Jerk. He has also never even examined me, before, right after or post op and when I ask him a question he answered it as if I'm totally annoying and he can't be bothered with me. The only time I've given him attitude was the morning after surgery when I told him I was mad at him for refusing to give me demerol, which is the only pain med that works on me and I told him that before. Plus the nurses couldn't get a hold if him for 9 hours to try a different pain med (diludad) when the morphine wasn't working. The diludad didn't work either, neither did the tramadol he sent me home with. Hydrocodone makes me sick so that's out. But I KNOW demerol works. I suffered all that time. Even the nurses were in my side and were proud of me for chewing him out. He left without even telling me how my surgery went or anything. Discharged us the next day and he still didn't tell me anything. At post op appt he examined my husband, told me to bring him to the ER then come back to do my post op. When I did he couldn't be bothered to see me or answer a couple of questions I had so the nutritionist relayed back and forth. I went in the next day to see if someone could check on one of my incisions because it felt weird (bulging like a hernia). He came in the room finally and wouldn't feel where I was showing him and told me it was all normal and the dimple would go away. I wasn't talking about the dimple but above it where it hurt. He argued with me and all I wanted him to do was feel that spot to tell me it was ok or not. He still didn't. I just feel so angry with him, sad and rejected.

Is it lactose free?

Ya, pretty dumb huh?

Pik, what did your dr say about pancreatitis and bariatric surgery? Did he also say that it can.happen about 1:1000 patients? I hope.you feel better soon!

We have the same foods list but he's not supposed to start foods until next Friday. Those foods are not on our list. He's going to come home and think he can continue eating that non nutritious crap and it's ok because the hospital gave it to him. They are not giving him enough protein either. He is not caring enough and it's making me mad.

You're doing great Andrea I'm two weeks out and I've always had a problem with liquids before surgery and I still hate it. Frankly, eating and drinking is a chore, I don't feel like doing either. I don't feel hungry or full. I have to put a timer on for every 3 hrs to remind me to eat or I won't. I'm not losing anything now that I'm eating foods which is frustrating but I guess normal. I was losing about a pound a day on liquids only. Eating annoying too because I have to pack little containers of food and bring with me wherever I go so that I have something with me at all times because I don't know how long I'll be out. Can't just go to a food place and order an ounce or two of something they don't have on my approved list. Sigh. But hang on there my friends:) Everyone is different. I love hearing how everyone is doing