Heartburn when going to soft foods

marc29 · May 16, 2009

So about a week after my surgery I was put on soft foods. They went down just fine, in fact now I'm 2 weeks out with little restriction at all. The problem is, for the first week after I started eating soft foods I was getting pretty bad heartburn. It actually took me a few days to figure out what it was because I had never even had heartburn in my life before this. For the last couple of days it has gone away and I'm hoping I'm in the clear.

I can imagine after eating nothing but protien shakes for 2 weeks that solid foods can be a bit of a shock to the system. I guess my question is, is this normal or could there have been something else wrong like band slippage?

josephine · May 16, 2009

Can you say what you are eating? Could this be causing your heartburn? You should slowly try flavoring your foods. It is a trial and error thing in the beginning. I heard others can't eating eat spicy foods now. I don't think you should worry about slippage at this time. Allow your body to recover from the foreign object in your system and treat it like a baby. Stick with non acidic foods at this time right now.

Josephine