I'm in puree stage and yesterday I tried some carrots and since then my throat makes sounds after i drink and i can no longer drink as much. What can i do to make myself feel better? Do i need to go to the ER? Please don't tell me that I have to go to the ER

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by Ninja-slash-nerd

If this has been happening since yesterday it may not be an emergency. Not sure. But get some chewable papaya enzymes and keep them on hand for times like this. They are great at helping to digest the food.

Good luck!

i wouldn’t normally suggest this but are you able to make yourself bring them back up? Wouldn’t be a good thing to do very often but may help you now.

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by Losingit2018

Pureed carrots ? Boiled soft carrots ? Hard raw carrots ?

if they were RAW carrots, I couldn't eat those until I was a few months out. Raw veggies can be very irritating to healing stomachs. In fact they sometimes STILL irritate my stomach, and I'm over four years out.

Hopefully they were canned or puréed since the op mentioned being on the puréed diet.

8 hours ago, Fatboyslim1 said:

pureed carrots ? Boiled soft carrots ? Hard raw carrots ?

hard raw carrots

7 hours ago, catwoman7 said:

if they were RAW carrots, I couldn't eat those until I was a few months out. Raw veggies can be very irritating to healing stomachs. In fact they sometimes STILL irritate my stomach, and I'm over four years out.

damn... I didn't know this. Today I'm feeling much better though. I have to take it easy for now on.

Edited December 26, 20196 yr by Ninja-slash-nerd

We are all different. I was instructed when I have a food that I added and it did that to me, I was supposed to go back 1-2 stages for a day or two until the inflammation resided. Then try to progress again with ONPLAN foods.

Carrots (raw) are NOT part of the puree stage. Well-steamed carrots? Would be ok to puree, BUT when you cook carrots to that point, they have a crap ton of available sugar in them and may spike your blood sugar and since you are a bypass pt. you might have an episode of dumping with sufficient quantity.

So a better choice would be butternut squash, canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling), or even a bit of well-cooked sweet potato. Or even better, roasted smashed cauliflower.

Glad you feel better today.

I second everything @FluffyChix said.

Know your stages and what foods are allowed in those stages. It's not meant to torture you. It's meant to allow your body to heal.

Wow!