I am currently 5 days post-op and I feel like I am starving myself. I have been on the liquid diet and drinking decaf tea in the morning and isopure pretty much all day long. Isopure is a high protein juice drink 40gms of protein for 20 oz. I can get down about 12 oz. of tomato soup which is the best meal of the day. I never really feel full all day except for the tomato soup. This diet doesn't leave me with a lot of energy for the day and even getting a shower whips me out. I tried a slim fast yesterday but it didn't stay down. I was thinking about trying it again today but other than that I don't know what to have. Any suggestions?

I also make smoothies. You can make them from plain greek yogurt (has protien), add strawbrry protein drink, 5 frozen straberrys, ice- put it all in a blender. I made this today & was able to drink it fine. I ws hving issues drinking, felt tired, & yes even taking a shower wore me out. At least making this drink i can drink it.

Why were you in the hospital for 5 days? Did you have complications?

Where I had surgery normally keeps patients about 4 days, I had a complication during surgery. I was very up and positive before and after surgery. The complication was due to the esophageal tube slipping into my stomach by the anesthesiologist at the moment the surgeon was making the 2nd to last cut/staple, which means the tube (which is only suppose to be in the esophagus) was stapled...it took quite a while for them to undo the titanium staples. Without them undoing it, I would ended up having a narrow esophagus/stomach because they would have had to do the last cut/staple around the tube, which would have severely narrows my esophagus/stomach opening, or they would have had to forego the sleeve and go to straight gastric bypass. This was an err caused by the anesthesiologist, who my surgeon will never work with again as a result of this costly mistake.

I also had an allergic reaction to the gastrique and broke out in hives. My age and the fact that I had lupus was also a reason to keep me one extra day.

My surgeon is extremely conservative, we are on full liquids 5 weeks before we are allowed to move to purees, soft then regular food.

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I bought mango today. Idk how to tell when it's ripe :-p heehee

life is a journey, not a destination; so, stop running -H.D. THEROUX

I bought mango today. Idk how to tell when it's ripe :-p heehee

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If it smells beautiful and sweet and is slightly soft, its ripe

thank god everything worked out ok at the end.

my boss just told me that a chef she knows lost 230 lbs in 1 year bc the surgeons at North Hospital in Long Island stapled his esophagus by mistake, he cannot ate and can only have liquids since having the surgery, I feel so bad for this man, I can't imagine the trauma he has been going through for over a year. Hope everything works out for everyone post surgery.