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Abster

By Abster, in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A

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Abster    8

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Going for surgery on Monday and I've been on my pre-op diet for 19 days. I can't seem to get enough liquids! My mouth is like fuzzy and dry. Any one have any experience with this??

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Sassygirl06    962

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I didn't feel that way pre op...but I sure did post op. I wanted to be able to gulp Water down like crazy post op....I have always been a water gulper, and for about 6 months all I could do was sip sip sip. I felt like I was going to go crazy! Thankfully that doesn't last forever, and I can gulp water down again. Just keep drinking as much as you can, it helps you. Good luck with your surgery, and recovery! :)

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FRED1977    186

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I felt like this during pre op and I just kept drinking fluids and finally I was able to regulate and felt normal. I had a lot of high anxiety during my pre op after a few days I was ok it was so hard to get going though. You have been on a pre op diet for a long time I'm sure its normal due to your body not getting the extra fluids from the food we eat at times. Are you feeling ok otherwise.

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Rocsi    13

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I've been on this pre op diet for four days and I keep getting headaches. I'm losing my mind cause I can only take extra strength Tylenol. That does not work for me as for as headaches. Is anyone having the same problem?

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FRED1977    186

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Did you drink a lot of caffeine before pre op diet started,maybe why you headaches. Your body is craving it.

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SuperKen    231

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I've been on my pre op diet for 5 days and I also feel quite thirsty. The biggest issue for me is being grumpy; my poor friends and family. :)

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Rocsi    13

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Oh that's true. I was drinking a lot of caffeine. Thanks for reminding me of that. Knowing why I'm getting these headaches makes me feel better. Thanks again

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Sassygirl06    962

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I've been on my pre op diet for 5 days and I also feel quite thirsty. The biggest issue for me is being grumpy; my poor friends and family. :)

I was quite the beatch! Thankfully my family understood. It is hard going from eating anything you want to drinking all liquids. Hang in there...it does get better! :)

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FibroDiva    60

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I didn't feel that way pre op...but I sure did post op. I wanted to be able to gulp Water down like crazy post op....I have always been a Water gulper, and for about 6 months all I could do was sip sip sip. I felt like I was going to go crazy! Thankfully that doesn't last forever, and I can gulp water down again. Just keep drinking as much as you can, it helps you. Good luck with your surgery, and recovery! :)

this is good to know Sassygirl06. Like you I didn't feel thirsty pre-op. I could drink over 120 ounces of water and other Fluid all day long. Now that I am post-op if I can get in 16 ounces of liquid a day I'm pushing it. It is driving me crazy. I am soooo thirsty all the time and it is hard to talk because my mouth is so dry.

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ElginChris    87

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Sassy, it is peobably Caffeine related but it could be stored toxins being released. It is a common side effect and should subside in a few days. Drink lots of Water, that should help!!

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Snufflegus    80

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Also try switching up your Protein, there is one I was using the whole first week of my preop diet and had crazy bad headaches, I have been off caffeine for years....actually ran out of the Protein and used something else and the headaches were gone. I tried that Protein One more time as everyone raves about it post op and it gave me the same exact headache.

For those of you thirst post op try Popsicles I found they helped "quench" my thirst.

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Abster    8

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I felt like this during pre op and I just kept drinking fluids and finally I was able to regulate and felt normal. I had a lot of high anxiety during my pre op after a few days I was ok it was so hard to get going though. You have been on a pre op diet for a long time I'm sure its normal due to your body not getting the extra fluids from the food we eat at times. Are you feeling ok otherwise.

I started early with two shakes and regular dinner until it was time to really start. I wonder if that was a bad idea?

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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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        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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