I had surgery 4-27 and feeling pretty well, i don’t feel hungry but my stomach is growling frequently i don’t got to full liquids for another week and i seem to be able to take more than 2 ounces of fluid. Was this normal when you were sipping could you drink more than the 4oz an hour that is suggested?

We were forbidden to drink more than 4 ounces per hour for the first week....but afterward, we were told we could drink more if it was comfortable....and I could definitely drink more at that point.

I don't remember being restricted but I know I didn't meet my water goals for a long time. Don't worry about not feeling full for the first few weeks--you won't with liquid as your diet. It will change quite a bit when you get back to eating solid food--I'm still kind of surprised how full I feel on a small meal. But glad!

It is normal to be able to sip that much, but also normal to have trouble getting much in, all depending upon how much inflammation one has in the stomach post-op. I could sip through a bowl of broth (6-8 oz maybe?) and a juice box in a sitting (say, half an hour) in the hospital while in the same phase, and later, my wife could barely get through her nominal stomach size of about 4 oz; both were within normal expectations according to our surgeon.

Our target for early drinking was a one ounce shot glass per five minutes if we could do it; some programs talk in terms of an ounce per fifteen minutes. If you have a lot of inflammation, drinking is like waiting for the water to drain through a pinched soda straw, so it can take quite a while to get any reasonable amount down; if there isn't much inflammation, it's like the water draining through a normal soda straw - it goes through fairly quickly. If you aren't feeling any distress and it isn't coming back up, you are doing fine.