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Ok. So here is my deal. I had my gastric sleeve surgery on Jan 23rd this year. Since then I have been having issues getting in 64oz of fluids. The last couple days in July and roughly 3-4 at the beginning of August I was drinking a lot. I think I may have gotten in 55-58oz a day. But since the beginning of last week, I started having some really bad nausea and a pain in my chest and stomach. Everytime I ate or drank something I would suffer bad nausea and stomach pain. So for about the last 3 days I have not been drinking much. It hurts really bad.

But anyway I was drinking Water today maybe 10oz and just now I asked my husband for some juice and both my husband and my mom flipped out because I put the water away and I'm wondering have I done something wrong. I saw my weight loss doctor and told her about the little water I could drink and her advice was of course water was better and getting the 64oz would be great, but her goal was getting me to drink whatever I could keep down or that didn't upset my stomach. Has anyone else went through this? I mean I am totally alone. They don't understand how you feel after the surgery and all the issues I have, so most times I have to hold these feelings in and I'm jus tired.

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Have you tried herbal tea? Peppermint and chamomile are usually easy to get down.

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For some reason my stomach only accepts cold drinks, with plenty of ice. I have had a rough time trying 2 drink warm or room temperature drinks. I'm scared 2 try again


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On 24/08/2017 at 0:53 AM, krista26 said:

Ok. So here is my deal. I had my gastric sleeve surgery on Jan 23rd this year. Since then I have been having issues getting in 64oz of fluids. The last couple days in July and roughly 3-4 at the beginning of August I was drinking a lot. I think I may have gotten in 55-58oz a day. But since the beginning of last week, I started having some really bad nausea and a pain in my chest and stomach. Everytime I ate or drank something I would suffer bad nausea and stomach pain. So for about the last 3 days I have not been drinking much. It hurts really bad.

But anyway I was drinking Water today maybe 10oz and just now I asked my husband for some juice and both my husband and my mom flipped out because I put the Water away and I'm wondering have I done something wrong. I saw my weight loss doctor and told her about the little water I could drink and her advice was of course water was better and getting the 64oz would be great, but her goal was getting me to drink whatever I could keep down or that didn't upset my stomach. Has anyone else went through this? I mean I am totally alone. They don't understand how you feel after the surgery and all the issues I have, so most times I have to hold these feelings in and I'm jus tired.

I do not understand why they flipped out, I misunderstood that part, you are unable to drink water, and you feel you can drink juice as to not be completely dehydrated which is life threatening, They would rather you drink nothing? There logic is lost on me, as juice may have sugar etc etc. But I would rather you drank whatever you could get down so you do not end up in hospital on a drip.

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Crystal light , anything you can have just have it, popsicles etc :) You got this. Do what you can.

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On 24/08/2017 at 0:53 AM, krista26 said:

Ok. So here is my deal. I had my gastric sleeve surgery on Jan 23rd this year. Since then I have been having issues getting in 64oz of fluids. The last couple days in July and roughly 3-4 at the beginning of August I was drinking a lot. I think I may have gotten in 55-58oz a day. But since the beginning of last week, I started having some really bad nausea and a pain in my chest and stomach. Everytime I ate or drank something I would suffer bad nausea and stomach pain. So for about the last 3 days I have not been drinking much. It hurts really bad.

But anyway I was drinking Water today maybe 10oz and just now I asked my husband for some juice and both my husband and my mom flipped out because I put the Water away and I'm wondering have I done something wrong. I saw my weight loss doctor and told her about the little water I could drink and her advice was of course water was better and getting the 64oz would be great, but her goal was getting me to drink whatever I could keep down or that didn't upset my stomach. Has anyone else went through this? I mean I am totally alone. They don't understand how you feel after the surgery and all the issues I have, so most times I have to hold these feelings in and I'm jus tired.

Your husband is supposed to support you, you are supposed to feel you can talk to your husband about any issues you are facing , so clearly there is a problem, you should communicate to them that you are not feeling like you can talk honestly and openly. Holding things in can effect us negitvaly.

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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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        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.

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