NewGirl2018

So I had surgery July 2nd. Everything is trucking along but now, I get incredibly belchy while eat my liquid meals. And, I think I’ve fallen victim to the 3 week stall. In fact, my weight went up a half pound between today and yesterday and a half pound between Monday and Tuesday. Yeah, I don’t really have a question, just wallowing in my own self pity.

I think the pre op diet was more for my own discipline. There are numerous studies that if shown that the liquid diet is not the most effective way to reduce the liver but it is the least intrusive and this most practical. One example is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709363/. But any decrease in size is a good thing in my opinion. I think the huge variation in surgeon requirements stems from a lot of things like the surgeon’s comfort level and what each surgeon has become accustomed to. I mean honestly, my surgeon didn’t know what my liver size was before surgery so who knows how much smaller it got in one week.

Same here. I consider myself very lucky and wonder if im doing something wrong which I know sounds silly

Really glad to have this board and all of you guys to do this journey with! I’m 4 day’s post op, haven’t had any pain since leaving the hospital and no soreness around incisions. I can’t really tell when I’m “full” on this clear liquid diet but I do have this intermittent feeling of something stuck in the back of my throat or this heaviness in my chest, like a belch I can’t get out. I get to start full liquids tomorrow and I have never been more happy to have soup.

Just had my surgery yesterday!