Pushing to Eat

[Beck90 189]

So Surgery was May 31st.. and I'm getting pushed to eat every couple hours even though I fee like I've just had a gourmet meal. I know I need to get my Protein and nutrition in but is this normal? I don't enjoy having my nurses really push me when I feel legitimately full and like more food will make me sick. Thoughts?

[PayItForward 207]

You are still in the hospital? Did you have complications?

I only stayed over night and the nurses never brought me any food to eat. Just ice chips and Water.

[Sophie74656 1,572]

I don't think they should be pushing you...what are they making you eat? If you feel full then you should speak up and not eat, you need to heal

[Christinamo7 4,041]

I would ask them what the concerns are - and see if there is something your team is watching, or if they are just following general protocol.

[Read2016 658]

I would think they want you to eat to be sure you able to take in foods at regular intervals and keep it down before they release you... Since you don't feel like eating it probably feels like they are pushing you... Along with the fact we normal eat when we want not when someone else decides

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Einstein

[Beck90 189]

No complicated except fixing a hiatal hernia and stricture of my esophagus from it (which is part of why it's hard to eat) .. I don't think it's so much anything they're watching but that they that they want to be sure I get in all my Protein. I'll just stick to eating regularly - when I do feel up to it and watching my Protein and Fluid intake. I get to go home today so then at least I can get away from them.

[victoriaobe 24]

All they did was make he drink fluids, but eat anything. I have 3 weeks liquid, 2 weeks puréed and then onto soft foods.

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Mine was may 31st too!

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[cindyw41 761]

When I was in the hospital they only forced me to walk. The doctor made sure I had plenty of Iv fluids so I wouldn't be dehydrated.

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[Beck90 189]

I'm home now.. I've fixed myself some Tomato Soup with fairlife Protein enhanced milk and am trying to get it down.. Just that couple of ounces make me so full. Thought liquids if drunken slow you could drink more at a time agh.. (Not that I can much I'm just worried about not getting my Protein in. )