Fluid volume, seems huuuuuuuuge!

[sistermaryelephant 10]

Hi all,

Sleeved last Monday (25 May) and discharged from hospital on the Wednesday. Apart from the Wednesday, since then I have been able to consume, what I consider, to be large volumes of Fluid without any side effects.

For Breakfast I have an Optifast shake. Midmorning I have a glass of V8 vegetable juice. lunch I have 300ml of skim milk/low-fat yogurt blend. Mid afternoon I have the milk/yogurt blend and at dinnertime I have another Optifast shake. In between I easily get down 1.5L to 2L of Water.< /p>

I feel as if I could easily have more...much more. I don't ever feel hungry, but I never feel full either.

Some would say that I am luck to be able to do this, but I am genuinely concerned the surgery did not work on me.

Has anybody experienced this and did it change when you started on more-solid types of foods (your punch filled up with solids, but liquids just slide on right through)?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[KindaFamiliar 3,867]

The short answer is "yes"...

WHen I was in hospital recovering, I was very careful with my fluids. They had given me a choc milk (300ml) at Breakfast and the doc asked me why I'd not finished it. I told him that I thought I was supposed to be taking it easy with my intake.

He replied that yes, I should take it easy, but that as long as I sipped slowly, that would be fine.

The fluids/yogurts/shake go thru you differently to solids.

Keep doing what you're doing...

You'll REALLY notice the difference when you get to food that is more solid.

Good luck with it all.

Kinda...

[sistermaryelephant 10]

The short answer is "yes"...

WHen I was in hospital recovering, I was very careful with my fluids. They had given me a choc milk (300ml) at breakfast and the doc asked me why I'd not finished it. I told him that I thought I was supposed to be taking it easy with my intake.

He replied that yes, I should take it easy, but that as long as I sipped slowly, that would be fine.

The fluids/yogurts/shake go thru you differently to solids.

Keep doing what you're doing...

You'll REALLY notice the difference when you get to food that is more solid.

Good luck with it all.

Kinda...

hey Kinda,

Puree stage today. Managed 300ml of blended cottage cheese and refried Beans with absolutely no problems. No cramps, no fullness, no sickness. The 300ml of thick puree was a small bowlful, which I ate easily.

I'm seeing the surgeon tomorrow, so will tell him about it, but I'm convinced my sleeve is sabotaged and that it just won't work.