When did you start a soft diet? Post-op?

[Quickly 45]

What can be tolerated?

[RickM 1,747]

Mine started in the hospital with things like scrambled eggs and yogurt. As to what can be tolerated is a very individual thing, beyond whatever the surgeon wants you to try and when. I had no problems with anything that I tried and progressed fairly quickly, trying new things a little at a time, getting progressively thicker, chunkier and less soft. Others have a problem progressing very rapidly and that's OK - there's a wide variation between what we as individuals can tolerate and when. When my wife went through this a few years ago, she had more problems with various food tolerances, and that's just the way she is - the doc had no worries about either of us, but just somewhat different responses within normal experience.

[Richard Foor 655]

People should always follow the instruction from their Doctor, the dr have figured out based on their own experiences. That being said I was on 2 weeks of liquids then started on pureed/soft on the 15th day. I was able to handle just everything I tried without problem, I did scrambled eggs, and a lot of canned meats (tuna, chicken, underwood meat spreads).