Will all those who have any problem or discomfort/distaste for drinking plain water POST surgery please state your case. I have asked my surgeon and nutritionist and they haven't a clue. I would like to pose this dilemma to Dr. Jossart and provide him with the link to this thread to illustrate that many of us have this issue. I am hoping he will be able to give us a satisfactory explanation. Thanks.

For me, the water feels "heavy" - it seems to want to stick in my chest. I feel the need to get up & walk around to get it to move through my stomach properly. BUT, if I add lemon juice or drink powder (like those for 16oz) it goes down with no problem.

I'm only 3 weeks post op, and I can tell you that getting Water in is a very real struggle for me. Before the surgery, I drank water all day long. You rarely saw me without a water bottle. I drank water that we bought from a machine at the store for 25 cents a gallon, and drank it for years.

After surgery.....I struggled with the taste of almost ALL brands of water. Since I got dehydrated and suffered quite a bit from it, I finally was able to get down Dasani, but only about 32 oz. a day. I was still having dehydration symptoms. I didn't want to go back to the hospital, so I just kept trying.

Now, finally just this week, I'm able to get down the water from the machine again, and it was only yesterday that I got down the full 64 oz. I haven't had any symptoms of dehydration today, and I'm hoping that it's all over. Several times, I thought I was going to faint....very scary feeling.

Keep trying....seems as if our taste buds change, but keep changing along the way. I often said, that if I didn't have taste buds I probably wouldn't enjoy food as much.....sorry I ever said that statement, cause now hardly anthing tastes good to me....:thumbup:

VSG 4/7/2010

Beginning weight: 365

Surgery weight: 349

Todays weight: 326:thumbup:

I had the same problem with plain water. It felt strange in my stomach for the first month or so, didn't matter what temperature the water was. I was also always a huge water drinker. I've never been a soda drinker, so water was always always always what I drank, and I was really upset that I wasn't able to drink it. I had to add crystal light packets to my water in order to drink it, or get Sobe LifeWater, but at about a month post-op, I started weaning myself off the crystal light. I started with 2 - 20 oz. water bottles with crystal light and 1 - 20 oz. bottle of plain water, and then after a week or so of that went down to 1 of crystal light, 2 of plain water, until I had weaned myself off of it completely. Sometimes my stomach is still a bit wonky with water, but I make myself drink it. It seems to happen more now if the water is really cold or first thing in the morning when I wake up. But for the most part, it's gone now.

Count me in. Plain water feels too rough going down. I do better when I drink the water mixed with crystal light.