How do I know the feeling I get when drinking, eating broth or sf Popsicles

[halfpintvsg 18]

Is normal. I feel almost like a contraction when anything hits my stomach. Is it normal due to healing? Is it reflux or GERD? I'm just curious how many feel this sensation. I am 1 week post -op. Rather than that cramping sensation, I'm feeling ok. Thoughts?

[rnsamantha 352]

I have the same feeling. I'm 2.5 weeks out, but when food or liquid hits it feels like my stomach contracts and it aches a bit for a couple of minutes. I haven't had any vomiting or heartburn. I am still getting 70 G Protein per day and 60 oz Water, but the water and mushy foods in particular are work to get down. I'm also wondering if this is normal and when it typically improves?

[bewell 222]

In my experience, it's your stomach is healing and reacting to a huge insult to it's pre-surgery status. My tiny tummy made lots of noise and I had many new sensations to everything I ate or drank.

Early on my mind was crazy with fear and it created a lot of anxiety. The nurse just kept reminding me of the significant surgery I had just had. Your eating is now significantly different and for me it took a while to get used to it.

Follow the doc;s orders and if some food isn't settling right when you eat it, postpone it for a few weeks. (Sometimes I didn't cuz I saw others were eating this and that and I kept vomiting!!! Not a good thing.)

I starting thinking of my new tiny tummy as a little baby, learning to kick and crawl. Remembering it would be a long time before it was running and jumping over mountains.

Each person is different. Take it easy.

[joatsaint 2,814]

Frankensleeve threw a tantrum for the 1st 10 days, over anything I ate. He really didn't like sugar free Jell-O or sugar free popsicles! So what you're feeling is normal. Almost everything will upset your new tummy for the 1st months, then things will settle down. I tried to look at it as a good thing. As long as Frankie was upset, he kept me from eating. And I knew, eventually, I would be eating more and different types of food. Then it would me up to me to make the right choices and right amounts of foods to eat.

[Soapandcandlequeen 124]

I call it the wave. It was a weird sensation. I agree that it's probably part of the healing process

[halfpintvsg 18]

Wave is def the word

[zonetracy 53]

My first week post op I felt like an air bubble kept getting trapped in my esophagus. I blamed in on my hernia repair. And, i gurgle quite a bit more now but no pain or nausea for me just that over full feeling if i take one bite too many. I'm 5 weeks post op now.