Have any early sleevers tried lettuce yet? Need to crunch on something sleeved 3.23.15 a little over 3 weeks

I wasn't allowed lettuce till week 7 after surgery.

My surgeon recommended avoiding fibrous veggies (broccoli stems, lettuce, cabbage, celery) until six months out. Of course, most everything is "as tolerated," unless specifically prohibited by your surgeon/nutritrionist.

I wasn't allowed lettuce till week 7 after surgery.

ok just asking ive been watching peoples youtubes vsg and this one girl say she eat 4oz of salad iceberg lettuce

And she was 3weeks post op

Edited April 16, 201511 yr by jackiemc1987

I had to wait six months for cruciferous veggies and salad greens.

I'm 10 weeks out and tried a couple veggies for the first time this weekend. Salad from Olive Garden went down great! Tried broccoli the next day, maybe 1/8 of a cup....three hours of belching, crying, puking pain. I loved broccoli before.....I will never try it again.

I'm not allowed to have iceberg lettuce. But I was eating salad around the third week. I have not had any trouble keeping it down. I use Bibb and romaine (I tear out the middle hard stem), red/green leaf lettuce and butter lettuce. I add very finely diced cucumber, shredded carrot, chopped tomato and it doesn't bother me at all.

Did anyone have severe pain in their pouch after having lettuce? I tried it twice and I thought my pouch was going to turn itself inside out. I didn't feel sick or anything and didn't have any "bathroom issues"....just lots of pain for about an hour after I ate the salad.

I was adding raw spinach to my protein drink from week 1 Granted pureed in the nutra bullet takes a lot of the hard work off my tummy. I was making smallish salads on weeks 3 - 4 with no issues, mostly romaine or spinach leaves. My NUT had no issues with it and it didn't upset my tummy in the least. Mind you I'm vegetarian so my body may be more accustomed to raw veg than most. I never eat iceburg lettuce, it is a nutritional waste of space. I go for vitamin rich dark green leafy veg.

I had a few different kinds of lettuce in my salad, plus chicken, and it just HURT. I was brave and went to Subway yesterday for a flatbread sandwich and had just spinach and green pepper for the veggies and had not one issue with it. Maybe I tried the salad too soon??? NUT said it was OK to have so I thought I'd be OK :-(

I tried lettuce a week ago. I'm 7 weeks post op. I got so sick. My stomach wAs aching like for an hour. Ugh