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yes, I had it...remember...water in-water out...lol

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yeah, I know...it will end when you move to mushies...lol

Just look at it from the prespective of your stomach....its like...WTH have this woman done to me.... *gumble* *grumble*....it will settle down in time...

LOL

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I didn't have it till I went to mushies. Just last week and now I've only had one day without it...today....which I went back to liquids

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i had it until about half way through the "soft and mushy" week...then things started to become normal... while it was happening it was very nerve racking to say the least...

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I didn't have it till I went to mushies. Just last week and now I've only had one day without it...today....which I went back to liquids

Why did you have to go back to liquids?

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Trust me it must be better than what I had constipation!! I didn't go for over a week after surgery.

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Omg I remember that for the first few days until I went and got some strawberry Fiber gummies from cvs and that started helping a bit.

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I had surgery July 2nd. The same happened to me. My Dr. Told me to take 1/2 of an Imodium. I'm still having to take it almost daily!

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I'm in the same boat as sil222. I was constipated for almost 2 weeks after surgery. It was horrible. My surgeon suggested taking fiber so I started taking the gummies every other day and that did the trick! :)

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Why did you have to go back to liquids?

Eating anything resembling real food causes pain in my chest and throat. Not sure

if Im just not chewing enough or what. I know its way too hard to make 3 oz of food last 20 minutes ~ At least with liquids ( Soups, smoothies, etc) I dont have to watch the clock. I just fixed dumplings and I didn't have much of a problem but still could not make it last 20 min.

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You know something has gone terribly wrong in your life when getting to eat "mushies" and "slushies" is something to look forward to...LOL

Before you know it your current problem will be gone .... "water under the bridge" as they say.... Okay, bad cliche. But you get my drift.

Each stage seems an eternity, but each one passes before you know it. I got to eat real, non-blendered beef today. Of course it was "pot roasted" to oblivion, but was not technically put in a blender, so I am still celebrating. You will be too soon.

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Eating anything resembling real food causes pain in my chest and throat. Not sure

if Im just not chewing enough or what. I know its way too hard to make 3 oz of food last 20 minutes ~ At least with liquids ( Soups, smoothies, etc) I dont have to watch the clock. I just fixed dumplings and I didn't have much of a problem but still could not make it last 20 min.

what did the doc say? Will this get better? I'm so sorry you are having complications.

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He didnt say it would get better. He just said sliw down. Any slower and my food will mildew before I finish. I think the pain isnt worth the food right now.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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