jason533

Oh Girl, I hear ya! My surgery was Wednesday morning. My throat was so sore from the breathing tubes plus the bougie tube. Worst sore throat of my life! I can hardly drink even water hurts. I'm scared because I know I am not drinking even 16 oz of fluid a day. Liquid gets stuck at the bottom of my esophagus until finally something triggerts the esophagus sphinster to open just a little to let the water trickle into my stomach. In the meantime my esophagus is gurgling and burping. Funny noises come out my mouth and it hurts waiting for the sphinster to open. I need to stand up when attempting drinking. I know I'd be doing a lot better if I didn't have this drain tube. I can feel it inside and it's making me real uncomfortable. When I clean it the suction puts me in great pain. It doesn't come out until next Tuesday. I think all we can do is keep trying to drink just the smallest sips and wait for it to get better like they say it will. I'm also coughing up stuff from my lungs are you? That hurts a lot also. Hang in there and believe what they say it will get better.

6 weeks for healing time on the sleeve per my surgeon, but no soda until after goal, it hurts if you drink it too early because there is residual swelling and the bubbles make it uncomfortable. As for steak, my post-op guidelines don't recommend eating solid meat for 6-8 weeks post-op. Steak is pretty difficult to digest early out, and I couldn't eat but a couple of bites when I first tried to eat steak. It took me a good solid 3 months to be able to eat just a couple of steaks, and it was fajita meat(skirt steak).