Hello everyone,

This is my first post. I am 9 days post-op and just had my drain pulled out today.. Yippee, it caused a lot of pain and discomfort, on both sides of my stomach.

My question is I know that I should be on full liquids for a while, but my doc states 5 weeks as he is VERY conservative. When are most of you able to move to purees? I am not wanting to eat food but 5 more weeks of this seems crazy.

thanks.

While in the hospital, I went full liquids. Will have that for three weeks. Smooth will be two weeks.

wow.. lots of diversity between surgeons.

This was what distressed me the most post-op when reading and posting at his forum....which I only discovered the weekend before surgery.

2 weeks full liquid, soft food for 2 weeks, real food after 4 weeks.

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This is my first post. I am 9 days post-op and just had my drain pulled out today.. Yippee, it caused a lot of pain and discomfort, on both sides of my stomach.

My question is I know that I should be on full liquids for a while, but my doc states 5 weeks as he is VERY conservative. When are most of you able to move to purees? I am not wanting to eat food but 5 more weeks of this seems crazy.

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I was 9 days clear

One week full liquid

Next week I add mushy (so 4 weeks in full liq/ mush stage)

Then feb 1 I hopefully get cleared for purée.

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I was never on liquids exclusively - my doc's plan is for liquids along with mushes and soft proteins as tolerated for the first month, then most everything else as tolerated after that. His findings are that this aids in the healing process, much the same as their getting us up and walking around ASAP after surgery aids healing more than strict bedrest. Who am I to argue with their twenty some years of sleeve experience?

I was on clear liquids for one week post-op. Then 2 weeks on full liquids (which thankfully is over in 4 days). Then 3 weeks of soft foods before progressing to a normal diet. But as you can tell, each surgeon is different.

It is crazy that there is such a variety of opinions from doctors.

2 days clears, up to 1 week full liquids then on to mushy wet protein as tolerated

My understanding is that the wait is to help keep u from getting nauseated and help promote weight loss but by no means should it hurt u if u move it up as tolerated some. Really if our sleeve us that fragile something is wrong or something wasn't done right in the OR....just sayin my opinion .