liquid ounces

[redlirpa 6]

I had surgery 4-27 and feeling pretty well, i don’t feel hungry but my stomach is growling frequently i don’t got to full liquids for another week and i seem to be able to take more than 2 ounces of Fluid. Was this normal when you were sipping could you drink more than the 4oz an hour that is suggested?

[Creekimp13 5,840]

We were forbidden to drink more than 4 ounces per hour for the first week....but afterward, we were told we could drink more if it was comfortable....and I could definitely drink more at that point.

[XYZXYZXYZ1955 675]

I don't remember being restricted but I know I didn't meet my Water goals for a long time. Don't worry about not feeling full for the first few weeks--you won't with liquid as your diet. It will change quite a bit when you get back to eating solid food--I'm still kind of surprised how full I feel on a small meal. But glad!

[RickM 1,750]

It is normal to be able to sip that much, but also normal to have trouble getting much in, all depending upon how much inflammation one has in the stomach post-op. I could sip through a bowl of broth (6-8 oz maybe?) and a juice box in a sitting (say, half an hour) in the hospital while in the same phase, and later, my wife could barely get through her nominal stomach size of about 4 oz; both were within normal expectations according to our surgeon.

Our target for early drinking was a one ounce shot glass per five minutes if we could do it; some programs talk in terms of an ounce per fifteen minutes. If you have a lot of inflammation, drinking is like waiting for the Water to drain through a pinched soda straw, so it can take quite a while to get any reasonable amount down; if there isn't much inflammation, it's like the water draining through a normal soda straw - it goes through fairly quickly. If you aren't feeling any distress and it isn't coming back up, you are doing fine.