sundownunder

I was sleeved July 29th and on purée/liquid diet. I had the most painful experience last week and thought I should share so no one else has to go through the same thing. Last week, I had what i thought was a stitch in my side, under my rib cage that started to get worse into the evening, then the pain moved to the center of my chest, bottom of my sternum and hot worse and worse. i felt like i couldnt breathe properly. it got so bad my hubby started driving me to hospital. it got crazy painful. i was literally delirious with pain. I was screaming, crying, begging for some relief. It felt like hot lava was spilling intoy stomach. I thought for sure I had a leak in my sleeve. 2 doses of morphine and i could feel relief. They think something was stuck that was irritating the opening of the sleeve which was already tender for op, then had an esophageal spasm trying to get whatever was stuck down. After my sleeve, In the hospital they were giving me puréed fruit so I thought I was ok to continue on with puréed food at home. My husband made me lots of puréed vegetable soup. In one of the soups there was the tiniest bit of carrot in it, a quarter the size of my pinky nail. It was very soft, so I thought it would be gone, I chewed it as much as I could and it seemed to go down fine. I thought I was progressing so well that I'd be able to eat scrambled eggs the following week. Boy was I wrong! Back to just liquids this week and after a few days the stitch feeling went away. Onto purée this week. Bit disapointed I'm not progressing as much as I thought. But never ever want to go through that again!

I was sleeved on July 29th. I'm really struggling, I feel hungry all the time. My typical day is a broken down into 6 x 1/2 cup of smoothies or pureed soups. With cups of tea in between. I'm not having any protein. My doc never mentioned...perhaps this is why I'm so hungry? I also have an odd pain in the middle of my chest almost like an air bubble coming up or something? Anyone else? I'm so glad I've joined this forum and really looking forward to helpful hints!

I had my sleeve July 29, 2013. So I'm only in my second week post-op. I'm really struggling. I feel hungry nearly all the time, which is not at all what I thought I would feel. Help! What's your secret words of wisdom??