Hey Advengers. I need some help, advice, comfort... SOMETHING haha
I just started mushies Friday (3 days ago) I've eaten mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, pureed black eyed peas, refried beans, backed potato with melted cheese, crackers (after chewing chewing chewing) apple sauce, sherbert... I think that's all. Oh Saturday morning I did try a maybe 3 bites of grits and 3 bites of scrabbled eggs.... all of this in VERY small portions and all are on my list of "can eats". Starting Saturday around 12:30 pm I started getting this pretty tough chest pain. It felt like TIGHTNESS. I had eaten around 8:30 and nothing else until about 4:30 due to the pain. After eating apple sauce it got better. Then around 8pm I ate some baked potato and here it came again... lasted all night. Woke up this morning with the same pain. It felt like what was explained as gas pain but I never had after the surgery.. until now. Now everytime I eat something.. It starts. I took 3 gas x strips today and it got better. Just ate some sf pudding... it's back.
Is it normal for the food to cause gas pain? I'm not using a straw, not drinking while I eat (which is hardddd by the way). Surely this can't go on forever. I can't live on gas x strips. I wonder if the chewables will work better and longer.. and are they ok to use?
Any advice???
__________________ Wendy Banded 4/24/08 - Dr. Miles - S316/C274/G180
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.
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I woke up last night about 4:30 with the tightness and gas pains. I was banded on April 10th and am still in the mushies phase. don't have a restriction - my first fill isn't for another two weeks, so I can get more food in than I need to. While sitting up in pain last night, praying for a huge burp so that I could go back to sleep, I tried to figure out what I did wrong. I hadn't had this pain since two weeks post Op. With me I think that I over ate on Saturday. I had grits in the morning, some peanut butter, chicken salad, milk, some more peanut butter (evil evil stuff - and I think the culpret), Velveeta Cheese (melted, left over from my daughter), a yogurt and the leftover chicken salad. I puree the chicken salad into mush in my food processor and love it. I ate all the right things, but think I just consumed too much food. My stomach is NOT used to me eating like that. I'm an emotional eater and its hard to break those old habits. It was a huge wake-up call. It is something I have to work on.
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Leslie
Bagnato Bandit - April Avenger
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*Highest Weight 275 in 2003. Initial Consult 259 - March 2008 - began Pre-Surgery Diet.
I just ate my first mushies. I was banded on April 30, but my surgeon keeps everyone on 3 weeks of liquid. I just ate one softly scrambled egg and 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese- both on my okay list. I have a hard feeling in my chest and just finally let out one belch. I feel awful. I thought I'd be so happy I was eating.
I know your post was a week or so ago, so I'm wondering how you're doing now. Did the pain stop? Did you learn anything you could pass along to me on this. I stopped taking my reflux meds after surgery and have been fine and I'm really hoping starting to eat again doesn't start up the reflux again.
Sorry to hear that you are having some of the same issues. I've figured out that mine was caused from cream corn. I wasn't aware that it was a no no food until I ate it again this past Friday and thought I was dying all day Saturday. It felt like my esophagus and stomach was having extreme spasms. I almost went to the er it was so bad. Thankfully, after digesting it, I haven't had any problems. But I can assure you I WON'T be having corn again!
I haven't heard of anyone having problems with cottage cheese but I can tell you that the first time I had this problem I had eaten a couple of bites of scrambled eggs. They felt heavy going down... so maybe lay off of them a day or so and see if that's what the problem was.
Hope it gets better!!
__________________ Wendy Banded 4/24/08 - Dr. Miles - S316/C274/G180
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.
I thought about the egg afterwards, too. I recalled that egg is hard to digest, but I never thought it would be hard to get it down. Maybe I should have started like I would after a stomach flu..... a little mashed potato or some farina. It's certainly mashed than my egg was.