krahzee1

Ok, so my doctor said that we would have a hard time even being able to drink as much fluids as we should after surgery. Well that doesn't seem to be a huge issue but my biggest one right now is I am starving! I thought that wouldn't be the case and I am wanting to eat so bad. Right now being in the first week out I am only allowed to have clear liquids like water, broth and I can have some protein shakes. These are not filling me up and tonight has been really bad. I am not one who expects my family not to eat in front of me and tonight was tough not to eat some of the food they were eating. Is this something anyone else had in the beginning? I get it, psychologically I am used to eating and my brain is telling me to eat. I would not have had to have the surgery if I didn't like to eat before and didn't overeat! I just really hope this goes away some once I can start eating some food with consistency?

It seems to be getting a little better but I can go from great mood to really bad real quick due to all of a sudden feeling like I am starving! My poor family right now LOL I go in next week for my post op and I hope they add some puree foods to my diet. Do they usually do that the second week or are they going to make me go another whole week on this liquid diet??

Yeah, this liquid diet is horrible. I mean I didn’t get overweight by not wanting to eat lol I can’t wait until this first week is over and I can at least eat the super soft foods like yogurt, oatmeal etc...

They did put me on one but my insurance wouldn’t cover it due to it being over the counter. Which really made me mad since the one I needed were the capsules right now that I can pull apart and put the beads in something to take them until a couple weeks and can absorb it by taking the pill. So I tried crushing the over the counter ones and they were soooo bad I just could not do it. I did get some from my mom tonight that come apart and I can take the beads out that way and will start those tomorrow. I hope that is the problem and it is just me not being able to take enough antacid and that is what is making me feel so hungry! Thanks for the suggestion, this gives me hope it is something as easy as that because I really hate feeling this way after going through so much to have this surgery.