Post Op 3 Weeks - Hurts Everytime I Eat Or Drink - Will This Ever Go Away

[jenniferaz77 0]

I had surgery about 3 weeks ago this coming Thursday. I have been following the post op diet but am still having issues. It hurts to drink no matter how much or slow I drink and eating is the same. Everytime I eat something I am sick for several hours after my stomach just does not feel right. I am starting to get to the point that I do not even want to eat or drink anything. Will this every go away, will I ever be able to eat/drink and not feel this way.

[aviiva 140]

my dr said sometimes the sleeve shrinks and they may have to stretch it out he said if I have that problem try to hang in and it gets better call your dr

[Wheetsin 714]

If I were in your shoes I would probably call my surgeon or nurse or whomever you have access to. At 3 weeks I don't think your pain should be so much that you are averse to drinking.

I'm two weeks out and can drink most things comfortably. In the last few days I've been able to take & swallow about 3 small mouthfuls at a time (I'm sipping through a straw). Really thick liquids sit uncomfortably for a bit, but do not hurt. At first everything hurt, but only for the first few days. If you're taking very small sips, and eating the allowed foods very slowly and in very small amounts, it might be time to get some professional input.

[BenisaMartim4 369]

I am 8 weeks out and have much of the same problems. My doc just keeps telling me to hang in there, I am doing great. I have had IV infusions 6 times. He has put me on Previcid two times a day and Carafate four times a day. He said much of the pain and nausea/vomiting was from acid. Also you get trapped in a cycle. If you are sick, you do not drink and if you do not drink, it will make you sick. Dehydration triggers nausea/vomiting also. They told me, at this point they didn't give a flip if what I drank was sugar free or not, as long as I was drinking. I have sweet tea or Gatorade every day. The tea stays down, but not always the Gatorade; it burns and comes back up often. I just try to stay hydrated the best I can, any way I can. My intake is about 24-32oz of Fluid and maybe 20g of Protein. I do not get hungry, but I do feel like I am starving myself to death. I just do the best I can and try not to worry too much. What good would it do me anyway. What's done is done. I just have to learn to deal with it now...whatever my hand may be.

Hope you find some relief soon. Just try to drink what you can. Don't worry about food right now. As a matter of fact, they told me to stop eating all together. The NUT said it was better to take a rest from food altogether than to eat and throw up at every meal. The throwing up swells the sleeve and makes it even harder to get anything in. She told me to do liquids of any kind (hot, cold, sweetened) for a week to let it rest. Then to easy back into food, but not to push it. Hydration always out ranks eating. You might want to try some sweetened tea. It is on the BRATT diet (banana, rice, applesauce, tea, toast) that doctors put people on when they have nausea/ vomiting. I have much experience with it. I had hyperemsis in all four of my pregnancies and the doc made me live on it for months. I still lost 70# during my last pregnancy.