3nuthut

Hahaha, I feel like it. I’m sleeping in 4 hour intervals so I thought I’d make it all at once because I never know what will be good at the time. Fangs are sharp...look out! Hahaha

Easy way to distinguish,between the 2 @ K.C..Girl, A tornado does take you to Oz, Toradol takes you away from Painesville.

OK, I'm curious. Are you part vampire? You do all your eating at night?

Check into "smooth moves" tea... it'll help things out when you start to get backed up from the pain meds/etc.

Hey guys, I thought I would share what I’m taking to the nightstand. This is my second round for theses drinks, and I have a little bit of everything depending on what goes down good through the night. Having a variety ready has helped convenience. If the broth or tea cools down, I just warm up in the microwave.
I’ll replenish in the morning and change it up a bit. But for the most part, I want to have Protein and Vitamin drinks at the ready.
I also made hubby stop by Sonic and pick up a bag of ice to munch on. The ice has helped when my tum is angry after surgery...so has the warm drinks.

Hey guys, I thought I would share what I’m taking to the nightstand. This is my second round for theses drinks, and I have a little bit of everything depending on what goes down good through the night. Having a variety ready has helped convenience. If the broth or tea cools down, I just warm up in the microwave.
I’ll replenish in the morning and change it up a bit. But for the most part, I want to have Protein and Vitamin drinks at the ready.
I also made hubby stop by Sonic and pick up a bag of ice to munch on. The ice has helped when my tum is angry after surgery...so has the warm drinks.

Hey guys, I thought I would share what I’m taking to the nightstand. This is my second round for theses drinks, and I have a little bit of everything depending on what goes down good through the night. Having a variety ready has helped convenience. If the broth or tea cools down, I just warm up in the microwave.
I’ll replenish in the morning and change it up a bit. But for the most part, I want to have Protein and Vitamin drinks at the ready.
I also made hubby stop by Sonic and pick up a bag of ice to munch on. The ice has helped when my tum is angry after surgery...so has the warm drinks.

I just spent my first night in hospital recovering and I went through the same thing. I tried not to whine but the pain was so great and I just wanted them to stick to the pain med schedule until morning. Nope it didn’t happen and I felt like I had to constantly trying to justify for more pain meds. By this morning I was a wreck, with very little sleep and still in acute pain. I asked my morning nurse why it’s so hard to get my pain meds? She couldn’t believe they were lowering my dosage and gave me what the doctor prescribed. Thank God I was able to rest before hubby came to pick me up around 2pm.
I know everyone is on high alert with narcotics but this was absolutely unnecessary. I felt like I wasn’t believed as far as pain (and I have a high tolerance).
Very disappointed. I hope you are getting better with your pain...I think I am but it’s a slow go.

I just spent my first night in hospital recovering and I went through the same thing. I tried not to whine but the pain was so great and I just wanted them to stick to the pain med schedule until morning. Nope it didn’t happen and I felt like I had to constantly trying to justify for more pain meds. By this morning I was a wreck, with very little sleep and still in acute pain. I asked my morning nurse why it’s so hard to get my pain meds? She couldn’t believe they were lowering my dosage and gave me what the doctor prescribed. Thank God I was able to rest before hubby came to pick me up around 2pm.
I know everyone is on high alert with narcotics but this was absolutely unnecessary. I felt like I wasn’t believed as far as pain (and I have a high tolerance).
Very disappointed. I hope you are getting better with your pain...I think I am but it’s a slow go.

Gosh @3nuthut I had no idea they were cutting back post surgically!! Goodness, if you can’t get them when you’ve been sliced and diced then when can you get them?? What facility was this at? Really hope the pain levels drop for you and that the rest of your healing is smooth. So sorry you had to go through that! Judy seems wrong...

Thank you all for taking time to post.
Going to take the wonderful advice you all have shared. I don’t know what I would do without you guys!

Trying to kick coffee, so this thread is helpful. Thanks!!! I just stocked up

Mint tea is fine if you can tolerate it (and if your team didn't tell you not to): it's good at fighting nausea, but it will increase the chances of acid reflux. I'm pretty sure my team said not to risk it.
Avoid at first:
I saw a doctor somewhere explicitly suggest avoiding ginger, which is a bummer: that's good for pain and nausea. But it's also a very "hot" herb, and I could see it irritating the staple line. Also it is potentially dangerous to combine with blood thinners. I definitely plan to hold off on that. Ginko biloba and Asian ginseng are potentially dangerous with blood thinners, in the same way as ginger, so they'd also be good to avoid for at least until you're off those. Dong quai, fenugreek, horse chestnut, red clover, sweet clover, sweet woodruff, meadowsweet, wintergreen, willow, poplar, and reishi are also worth avoiding while on blood thinners. (I don't know this all off the top of my head; I have a book of herbal and medicine interactions. It's a few years old, so there are almost certainly other herbs I haven't listed.)
After you're off the blood thinners, gingko biloba and Asian ginseng would both be fine to add back in if your doc OKs it; they may even support healing.
Meadowsweet, wintergreen, willow, and poplar contain a similar substance to aspirin, so I plan to avoid them until I'm cleared for NSAIDs again.
I also plan to avoid licorice. It can mess with the digestive system (usually in good ways, but I'm not sure what mixing it with the PPIs would do), and it can raise your blood pressure.
I have to avoid it for other reasons, but for the two weeks before and after surgery you'll want to make sure to avoid St. John's Wort, which affects the absorption of medicines.
It's not a tea thing (unless you're a lot more hardcore than I am ), but it's a good idea to avoid garlic for two weeks before and after surgery.
A website I was looking at for suggestions of teas to drink after surgery also said to avoid Kava and Ephedra (OK, that second one seems obvious) for two weeks before and after surgery.
Nice possibilities:
If you aren't allergic (I am, which is a bummer), chamomile would be a nice tummy-settling and mentally soothing herb that might also help you sleep while you're in the hospital. (It has potential interactions with chemotherapy drugs like methotrexate, but no other class of drugs or medicines is listed alongside it in the book I'm using.)
A tea blend with lavender in it would be really nice if you're into floral tastes at all. It helps a tiny bit with pain and with fighting off unwanted bacteria. One study found that just smelling lavender helped people cope with pain after surgery, too. (No known drug interactions.)
Because getting proper nutrition is a tricky thing immediately after surgery, I plan to drink teas made up of nutritive herbs like nettles, oat straw, raspberry leaf (or not, note below), and maybe rose hips. (I'm going to play with the amounts until I find something I like the taste of.) (The only interaction listed for nettles is diclofenac, which is an NSAID. That said, nettles are also a very, very gentle diuretic--gentle enough that they aren't even contraindicated with medical diuretics in this book--so I might add a little marshmallow leaf to help balance that.)
Hibiscus is a nice tea and also contains some Vitamins and minerals. (Nothing is listed about it in my book, good or bad.)
Echinacea would be nice, though like chamomile, it has potential interactions with some chemotherapy drugs.
After I'm off the "good pain meds," I'll probably add in more raspberry leaf, some red clover leaf, keep doing the nettles, add in some mullein (good for the lungs, as well), and keep balancing that formula with marshmallow leaf.
If your main pain med contains codeine:
You may get a little less bang for the pain med buck (fancy medical term: "reduced drug absorption/bioavailability") if you're drinking green tea, black tea, raspberry leaf tea, uva ursi, or anything else that contains tannins. I'm not saying "don't," but maybe just "mix it up a bit with other things."

I have been a daily tea drinker for years and consider myself a bit of an aficionado. I generally do not drink high caffeine teas and NEVER drink black tea (the kind in iced tea). I prefer green teas and herbal teas, but also drink some specialty teas such as Oolong and Pu'erh. I LOVE teas and often drink them medicinally.
In the hospital, I drank a Pu'erh & chrysanthemum tea, but the nurses wouldn't let me have it hot hot. It was luke warm at best. Pu'erh & chrysanthemum is good for digestion and bloating, so I put some in my overnight bag because I figured it might help with tummy distress in my immediate post operative state.
When I got home, I continued to drink the Pu'erh & chrysanthemum but also began drinking ginger tea. Ginger is also good for tummy troubles. I did not drink it very hot for about a week or so. Not because it caused pain or distress, but I figured that the surgical site in my tummy really wasn't up to extremes.

I drank hot tea (cold Water made my stomach hurt and hot was soothing). Loved and had peppermint right away - only way I was able to drink water for first month. I love all Decaf teas .... especially iced this summer 😊

Good luck tomorrow!

I drink anything from Lipton to chai. When I have cravings, I find a chai tea latte (made with Premier Protein vanilla shake) really satisfies the cravings. In the winter, I stock up on eggnog and salted caramel teas, too. YUM.
I was able to drink tea immediately upon returning from the hospital.

How soon after surgery were you able to tolerate the heat? I love Hot Drinks, my fall and winter will be ruined without them

Immediately

Well,at and no, as a child my god-mother gave me peppermint tea for a colicky tummy and help ecpell gas, not my gastroenterologist tells me if you have any gastritis it will irritate your stomach lining and,make you feel,worse. Aunt Edith and Dr Mujtaba, gight,it out among yourselves! Personally,i like peppermint and spearmint, don't care for wintergreen. Bigalow Tea makes a lovely,mint based,tea, I love it for,my iced tea. Like Constant Comment still, But this is GOOD stuff.🍵

Oh good to know! I wondered if I could when I got home. Tomorrow is the big day! Eeeek!

I wanted to post this to the LapBander’s out there...
Banded Dec 2012 and was doing great!
I went from 230 to 138 and stayed that way with fills up to the end of 2015.
Then when I got to 165 in Feb of 2018, I went in for a fill and they found that my band had slipped and I started having lower muscle esophageal problem. I’m thinking great...my BMI isn’t high enough to get the revision paid for and I don’t want to have to go through proving AGAIN, that I need a tool for managing my weight. Plus, my blood pressure is starting to go through the roof! (I’m apple shape so my fat is around my organs)
The dr told me I would probably get a denial but we could appeal and do a peer to peer review.
Low and behold after waiting 1 week, on the first submission, I got approved.
surgery is August 13th 2018!! Eeeek!!
I have United Health which has a “once a lifetime” bariatric surgery coverage ( BCBS of Texas did my band).
So for all those who are thinking about a revision or band not working, I highly recommended checking into it.

Great news! Now you'll be in shock with your clothes!

Great news! Now you'll be in shock with your clothes!

I have a hiatal hernia too, damn things. Surgery and a fixer upper on the 8th. You certainly won't miss your gallbladder either. Good luck to you as well.

I had started slowly gaining weight starting last year. Changing NOTHING in what I ate, but eating more of it. So I scheduled a fill and they requested I do the barium swallow test. They found that my lower esophagus looked like it was “quivering”, and it kinda did. So I never got the fill. Three different esophagus tests later, my band had slipped and due to my weight continuing to gain, my hiatal hernia is back. So basically my process has been the tests...basically a breakdown of the esophageal muscles. I don’t have to go through the 6 month requirements. Maybe due to the urgency of getting the band out???