First day of liquid diet and already have an headache!

[PRINCESS2218 56]

Pre op liquid diet consist of Water, crystal light, sf Jello and opti fast shakes. This headache is on my right side. What should I do?

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[kelsbelles 4]

The low calorie gatorade helps!

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[Panda Chai 14]

Hi

I'm on my 7th day. I will tell you that it does get better after 2-3 days. Two things, If you get that empty feeling in your stomach, drink broth. It definitely helps. Also I told my doctor that I couldn't stomach more than 3 shakes a day , and all in all only getting 650 calories a day. He let me incorporate 2 hard boiled eggs into may daily diet. That helped tremendously. So if you continue to get those headaches, it doesn't hurt to ask.

I should have asked, How many days of pre-op diet? I have to do 14.

[Dub 9,946]

Stick with it and drink plenty Water.

It gets easier.

[PRINCESS2218 56]

Thank you for the replies. I have 14 days of the liquid diet.

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[MissKay 329]

My doctor allowed low-fat creamed Soups (strained) made with skim milk or Water. That helped tremendously. But also get tons of Water, and aimed for at LEAST 60g of Protein, but usually made it 90g a day. On day 4 is usually when things subsided. Our goal was to keep under 50g of carbs, which was the hardest part of it all. I actually did a food log (for most of the time, life got hectic towards the end). Here it is just to give an example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8HZ238jfN1rTAl84k0AYuEQcGEtmivPSyj1oEEyEZ4/edit?usp=sharing

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[Shaunie 123]

Second day on liquid diet and also have a ragging headache :'(

Hoping it gets easier!! We can do this!!!

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[gemigirl 134]

Get through that third day and you'll be golden

[Shaunie 123]

That sounds good :-)

[OKCPirate 5,323]

@@PRINCESS2218 - Just out of curiosity, did you quit caffeine cold turkey? I had to wean off that for weeks to keep the headaches away. That and Diet Mt. Dew. I don't know what they put in that, but getting off of soda was tough.

[becomingmandikaye 262]

It gets better after 3 or 4 days, promise. You can also take Tylenol (but not Advil) to help.

[PRINCESS2218 56]

I had to wing myself off diet soda. Hopefully after the surgery, it will completely gone away.

[Panda Chai 14]

Regarding the Caffeine, I used to drink 2 venti starbucks a day. Now I have one small diluted one a day with non fat milk. It gives me a small shot of caffeine in the morning.

Diet soda- I gave up cold turkey. I missed it the first day but not since. I bought some awesome zero calorie Water Enhancer at Walmart. Check them out if you are near a Walmart. I bought cherry blackberry.

[PRINCESS2218 56]

Thank you!