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BEWARE- Ice cream caused my pouch to dilate



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Yes, I know, I know, I shouldn't have been eating ice cream in the first place. I received a fill in December and I felt kind of tight and fell into some bad habits that I never had before surgery, ex. eating ice cream. Well a few days ago I go in for a fill because I was feeling less restriction and the fluroscopy showed that I had pouch dilation (the enlargement of the pouch above my band). I rarely overeat, maybe once every 3 months but I did eat a lot of ice cream to the point of bloatedness. I didn't think ice cream would do anything to my band because it's considered a slider food. Yet after remembering what milk does to me I came to realize last night that ice cream had to have been the culprit. I'm lactose intolerant which means I usually have a lot of gas and get bloated after drinking milk. After watching my baby daughter get bloated from her nightly milk intake I put two and two together. It must've been the overdoing it on the Sonic Blasts that dilated my pouch.

The nurse asked me to go on a liquid diet for 7 days and I'll see them in two weeks. For now I'm still eating solids until 7 days before I go in for my next fluroscopy. I'm writing this for others who might be lactose intolerant as well and who have addictively eaten ice cream like myself knowing that it's a no no for us bandsters. I can't prove it, but it's the only reasoning that makes sense to me. Ice cream causes me to bloat and have gas; hence dilated pouch. Please be careful out there bandsters. I would hate for you to make the same mistake. The same goes for carbonated beverages. You may not feel that it affects you but it probably does.

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I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, but I would like to give you my gratitude for your post.

I am slightly lactose intolerant (my symptoms are not very severe) and I do enjoy the occasional ice cream (very rare). I'm not a big ice cream fiend so that won't be too much of a problem but I do enjoy a lot of diet coke. I haven't had any carbonated drinks since my surgery... I guess I'll have to abstain from it for a longer time.

Thanks for your post and best of luck to you.

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Thanks for the information- can I ask if the doctor said 2 weeks of liquid why you are chosing to do one week??

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I think he was told 7 days liquids but to come back in two weeks; which would leave 1 week of solids. OP you may want to ask if they want you to do the 7 days of liquids now, then the seven days of solids instead of the other way around.

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so thankful to those willing to share .... hope everything works out for you, Ken.

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Hmm. Good tip. I'm guilty of indulging in carbonated beverages...it feels like it doesn't affect me, but who knows???

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I think he was told 7 days liquids but to come back in two weeks; which would leave 1 week of solids. OP you may want to ask if they want you to do the 7 days of liquids now, then the seven days of solids instead of the other way around.

Yeah I called two days ago and spoke to a nurse from True Results. It turns out that they want me on this liquid diet until my next appointment which is now 10 days away. I thought one week of solids and one week of liquids would do the trick. I don't know how I'll be able to hold up by only drinking liquids. It doesn't provide satiety.

Ice cream, never again.

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How are you? Please keep us posted on how your pouch is doing after being on liquids.

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How are you? Please keep us posted on how your pouch is doing after being on liquids.

Thanks for asking. I've been doing fine on my semi liquids diet. Honestly, drinking only liquids for 2 weeks is extremely difficult and I've done a few mushies at least once a day. How many times can you drink Protein shakes and Tomato Soup? It was really starting to gross me out. Anytime I took a look at Soup or that shake it gave me the hebbie gebbies. So I've been eating at least one little can of bannana baby food from gerbers. I hope it doesn't ruin my diet.

I'm still coming to grips with how in the world my pouch dilated. I generally never overeat. I measure all my meals so that's why I concluded it had to be the ice cream. If my pouch has not decreased when I go in on Wednesday, I'm going to be so upset. I cannot do this liquid diet for any longer. I'll let ya'll know what happens. Thanks.

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Thanks for the update. I'll be waiting to see what they say. I hope the liquid diet works.

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Thanks for the update. I'll be waiting to see what they say. I hope the liquid diet works.

Well I went in today to check out the status of my pouch dilation after two long weeks on liquids that tested every Fiber of my body. The fluroscopy showed that my pouch looked much much better. It totally looked like a normal pouch again. I gave the nurse practicioner my theory on why I believe my pouch dilated and she didn't see to totally agree but she wouldn't rule it out. According to her she wanted to wait 2 more weeks to see if the pouch will shrink even more if I want an adjustment. That would be another week or so on liquids and I'm not having that. The pouch looks great and she said my restriction is perfect. So from now on I will stay away from ice cream, eat using smaller utensils, and eat much slower.

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Yeah! I'm so glad for you. I hope everything continues to work out. Thanks for the update. I was wondering...

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So glad everything worked out fine. Thanks for the tip regarding the ice cream, every once in a while I would indulge - not any more after reading your post! :)

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