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Constipatin,Acid reflux and Heart burns

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Catcarter    21

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I am 18 days post-op . Was doing good until the last 5 days when I started to have acid reflux and heartburns. They are so bad that it wakes me up at night. No matter what I eat or drink. I call my dr and he prescribed me Protonic and started taken it yesterday. Tums does not help. Also I am constipated. Dr told me to take milk f magnesia or mralax. I have and only thing I get out f this is very watery. Any suggestions will help! Sometimes I wonder what have I done! When will I start to feeling myself again!? I getting all my Protein in. Eating what I should, but this acid reflux and heartburns I am scare to eat or drink cause it's hurts so bad. Please help!

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PorkChopExpress    826

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I would go back to Clear Liquids for a couple of days, and see if it settles down...and keep taking your Protonix as directed. Hopefully it will start to ease up. Make sure you are doing as well as you possibly can on Water intake, too. That may be part of the reason for the Constipation. But I'd really lay off of anything that requires your stomach to work for a couple of days and see if that helps.

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shrusara    13

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I am 18 days post-op . Was doing good until the last 5 days when I started to have acid reflux and heartburns. They are so bad that it wakes me up at night. No matter what I eat or drink. I call my dr and he prescribed me Protonic and started taken it yesterday. Tums does not help. Also I am constipated. Dr told me to take milk f magnesia or mralax. I have and only thing I get out f this is very watery. Any suggestions will help! Sometimes I wonder what have I done! When will I start to feeling myself again!? I getting all my Protein in. Eating what I should, but this acid reflux and heartburns I am scare to eat or drink cause it's hurts so bad. Please help!

How long after u eat do u wait to go to bed? My dr said after eating anything I should not sleep until an hour at least and if I drink even a sip of Water I need to stay up for half n hour before sleeping... I've had severe gerd issues before the surgery so I'm trying to stay away from any refluxes as well... also avoid anything spicy... even if u take any medicine or anything wait for an hour to sleep and since ur having issues right now elevate ur head while sleeping... and have more yogurt ... I had my surgery on 27/09 so I'm still fresh but this is what I used to do when I used to get gerd

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esmer28    2

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I am 18 days post-op . Was doing good until the last 5 days when I started to have acid reflux and heartburns. They are so bad that it wakes me up at night. No matter what I eat or drink. I call my dr and he prescribed me Protonic and started taken it yesterday. Tums does not help. Also I am constipated. Dr told me to take milk f magnesia or mralax. I have and only thing I get out f this is very watery. Any suggestions will help! Sometimes I wonder what have I done! When will I start to feeling myself again!? I getting all my Protein in. Eating what I should, but this acid reflux and heartburns I am scare to eat or drink cause it's hurts so bad. Please help!

I'm taking famotodine but feel sometimes like the heartburn still wants to creep up a bit but it has been helpful. I started walking more this week and the first day I had like 3 loose stools. It wasn't a lot but I feel the walking increase REALLY helped me. Milk of magnesia made me go within the same day too 2 days before I increased my walking time. I am currently 11 days post-op.

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FunkyMunkyBrat    205

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I can't see what forum we're in (on my phone) but, if you got the band or possibly even the sleeve, are you possibly eating too much and/or too fast? Causing your pouch to fill and back up?

Munky

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Catcarter    21

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I do not eat before going to bed. I have elevated my head. When I do eat I eat maybe 3 lil bites not much at all. So I know I am not overeating. But I have notice when I drink Water instead of sipping like I did I will swallow more than a sip. It does not hurt. I am going to see how the Protonix is going to help since this is only my second day f asking it. Thanks for all the suggestions!

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facebro29    272

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OMG I haven't had a BM for 8 days!! Spoke to the senior nurse at the hospital and my doctor says to take Milk of Magnesium. Have been taking it and NO MOVEMENT!! I'm on the puréed stage eating everything I'm supposed to eat drinking AT LEAST 2Ls of Water a day. They have threatened with a suppository and that has put the fear in me. Please tummy gooooooo!! I've noticed as well my left side of my stomach hurts like hell and I have sharps pains. Dr says that has been because I haven't gone.

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rlinda72    10

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Keep do the milk of mag.... i am now 10 days post revof sleeve to RNY and just went to bathroom last night. Did Mom 2xday! Was worried also..... my stomach was killing me too, getting better.... my problem is i lost a lot of blood, so counts are all very low and i have no energy!

I remember the first surgery and felt similar after not eating for so long. It passes, once eating again we slowly get back to ourselvrs, our new selves.....

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    • Alisa_S

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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