Anyone having surgery in May

[MommaD88 20]

Ok, this makes more sense to me now. You are more than likely experiencing the same thing I did in the hospital. They would not let me go home until I could tolerate liquids, which took me an entire week to get close to what the expectation was. I hope you're not being hard on yourself. The highs and lows of this entire process is not what I had expected. I think my mindset was, have the surgery and then everything else will be okay. This is by far one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life. I left inside when I hear people say this process is an easy way out. They have no idea. The Roux-en-Y operation is basically to allow your body to starve itself for weight loss. It uses the fat storage for energy. It does not hold onto the fat. I feel your pain, it will get better in some aspects and then eventually in all aspects. We have to be patient. I guess I just was not fully prepared for issues with my pouch. You don't hear about these things in all of the classes that are required to take before you can have the operation.

Pretty I too have had some issues since my surgery and even got pancreatitis which landed me back in hospital for 5 days. Fluids by IV for a day and then back to liquids then try soft foods again. I think that in a way I felt I started to experience dumping syndrome with certain foods. Of course my local hospital where I did not have the surgery was not prepared as far as diet is concerned for a patient like me. food was very limited in choices. I thought I was tolerating dairy but quickly found I was wrong. The pain with eating and drinking was so excruciating. I have not had a normal BM since the surgery. Since then which has been about 5 weeks now it's getting slowly easier but agreed I am not where I should be with goals. I'm still only getting about 3/4 of a bottle of Water down but if you include my frozen SF Popsicles it gets pretty close to 16-17 oz a day. I am only eating between 2-4 meals a day depending on how I'm feeling. Just have to keep reminding myself that everyone. Just keep things slow and in time it will get better. I am better then I was 2 weeks ago. Keep that log going on how much you eat and how you feel when you eat and drink something. It helps remind you when you talk to doctors.