Not Feeling Like Eating Anything!

[Blugirl 42]

I am 2 mos. postop and have been doing great with food, eating very little but consistently..... until today. ...... I felt nauseated, and just not interested in food, or Water. not even "forbidden" food....I feel over stuffed but very weak......however i cant make myself eat anything........ is this a normal thing? are these days normal!?

[clk 3,519]

What's the nausea from? I ask because I started to put two and two together about my lactose intolerance pretty close to two months out. It made me feel nauseated and sick all day long.

It's completely normal to feel aversions to food after surgery. Eating isn't fun anymore, we can't eat as much as we used to, our tastes change and very often we're on a really restrictive diet.

But you have to make yourself eat something - even sipping on Protein shakes all day if you have to. Otherwise you'll get dehydrated! We need fuel.

For some people it's a once in a while thing. For me, it lasted months. I didn't really enjoy eating much of anything until sometime around a year out. Nowadays I do enjoy food, just in smaller portions. Every now and again eating will be a chore or a pain but I don't feel completely repulsed by food the way I did in the beginning.

Find something you can tolerate. And really - see if dairy is causing you a problem. Maybe your current Protein shake is ruining your day. In either case, it does get better. Hang in there.

~Cheri