Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hello All: Its been two weeks since my myotomy surgery and am looking for food tips on what I can eat..so far i've added mashed potatoes, shakes, smoothies, and some pureed foods, cream of wheat, and ensure. I've still got pain, but am able to eat whats listed without taking isosorbide and procardia! I was diagnosed in 2002 and have lived with it since then, with the spasms getting worse..I am looking for what foods have worked for those that have had this surgery..also a fundo..(can't spell it)...Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hi Ellie- You can begin to eat anything soft and mushy.Soups,scrambled eggs,gravies,yogurts,puddings,baked potatoes,mushy french fries,(my son loved this-cereals that have soaked in the milk so its not real sharp and crunchy), it gave him variety. Ice cream,cottage cheese,some people can tolerate pasta and others cant but my son ate oodles of noodles,stuffed shells,also oatmeal is good. Anything that is soft but not spicy or acidy. You will have to go gradually and work your way up to other things.BE PATIENT AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT YOU WILL BE EATING WhAT YOU WANT : ) Hope you continue to do well! Tonia > > Hello All: Its been two weeks since my myotomy surgery and am looking > for food tips on what I can eat..so far i've added mashed potatoes, > shakes, smoothies, and some pureed foods, cream of wheat, and ensure. > I've still got pain, but am able to eat whats listed without taking > isosorbide and procardia! I was diagnosed in 2002 and have lived with > it since then, with the spasms getting worse..I am looking for what > foods have worked for those that have had this surgery..also a > fundo..(can't spell it)...Thanks.. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hello; Thanks for responding, it is really helpful. I suffered from anxiety just from going thru the surgery and test procedures. But, I think I am over the worst. I can't wait to graduate to solids! Is that even possible?! lol > > Hi Ellie, > > I had surgery with Dor fundoplication one year ago coming Wednesday. I live in Holland and had surgery in Germany. It is a standard rule that you stay in hospital for five more days post surgery there and I therefore had to pick things from the hospital menu. Apart from mashed potatoes and creamed vegetables I had some steamed fish, pasta and also bread, but without the crusts. And of course the Ensure, soup, noodles, yoghurts, pureed food and other soft things. > > About two weeks later I had to be admitted back into hospital, as I had developed a very rare complication from the surgery. So rare it hadn't even been described in any Geman literature. So don't worry. I will save you all the details, but I had trouble with " water management " and a blood test concluded I was extremely short of protein. My surgereon therefore recommended I would eat lots of protein rich food (fish, cheese, meat etc). He made me promise to eat very carefully and chew, chew and chew. It all went down well, without any problem. A soft diet is the best, but if you try anything else, just make sure you chew well! > > Take care! > Astrid > > > Post Myotomy > > Hello All: Its been two weeks since my myotomy surgery and am looking > for food tips on what I can eat..so far i've added mashed potatoes, > shakes, smoothies, and some pureed foods, cream of wheat, and ensure. > I've still got pain, but am able to eat whats listed without taking > isosorbide and procardia! I was diagnosed in 2002 and have lived with > it since then, with the spasms getting worse..I am looking for what > foods have worked for those that have had this surgery..also a > fundo..(can' t spell it)...Thanks. . > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________\ ____ > Never miss a thing. Make your home page. > http://www./r/hs > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 While you are " not coughing, " you should not be laughing, and god forbid, you should not sneeze either. Speaking from first hand experience. ________________________________ From: Deborah Lattimore <deborah_Lattimore@...> achalasia Sent: Sat, July 3, 2010 4:56:39 PM Subject: post myotomy  YES, sorry I forgot to say that...yes, I had a VATS. My ribs DID hurt a lot for a while...and whatever you do, don't cough! But, truly, I couldn't have avoided this surgery. I was not getting food and drink down the right way at all. I was at a food court, pre VATS, when I decided to try eating some Panda Express noodles along with a giant diet Coke, and they both came out my nostrils IMMEDIATELY! Very attractive! All those extra-long noodles and brown, bubbly liquid! Jeeze! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Ok I am about to be nobody's favorite person so here goes. Coughing...deep breathing...painful..yes without a doubt. Flip side totally, undeniably, absolutely necessary post op. They will even give u an incentive spirometry device in which you are to inhale deeply many times triggering a cough. Why, c and db (coughing and deep breathing) clear the lung of anesthetic gases, mucus and promotes oxygenation of healing tissue and prevents post op pneumonia. While laying on an or table, under anesthesia and other paralytic agents your lungs do not clear like they do when you r carrying out your normal activities. So when u come out of that anesthesia one of the first things nurse will tell u to do is " cough, breath deep better yet yawn. " No wonder nurses r called " Ratchett " . Any nurse worth her salt will encourage u to inflict pain upon yourself, guilty as charged. Splitting the incision site with a hand or pillow will help. They may even give to a splitting pillow in the shape of a pair of lungs, my son has one signed by dr rice and other nurse ratchetts. Pain medication also cause shallow respiratory effort. So take your pain medicine, pick up your cough pillow, blow into your is device and have a good cough. Screaming in pain also help clear the lungs...tmi I'm sure. U didn't ask but I am a ratchett so I felt compelled to torture.....angela Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry post myotomy YES, sorry I forgot to say that...yes, I had a VATS. My ribs DID hurt a lot for a while...and whatever you do, don't cough! But, truly, I couldn't have avoided this surgery. I was not getting food and drink down the right way at all. I was at a food court, pre VATS, when I decided to try eating some Panda Express noodles along with a giant diet Coke, and they both came out my nostrils IMMEDIATELY! Very attractive! All those extra-long noodles and brown, bubbly liquid! Jeeze! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Correction if u please the IS device you inhale not blow..no getting off easy on this torture...angela Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry post myotomy YES, sorry I forgot to say that...yes, I had a VATS. My ribs DID hurt a lot for a while...and whatever you do, don't cough! But, truly, I couldn't have avoided this surgery. I was not getting food and drink down the right way at all. I was at a food court, pre VATS, when I decided to try eating some Panda Express noodles along with a giant diet Coke, and they both came out my nostrils IMMEDIATELY! Very attractive! All those extra-long noodles and brown, bubbly liquid! Jeeze! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Hi , I agree with everything you wrote, except for the first line. While I know you made reference to " pain medication, " you might have also added, that for some people, morphine is the great " deceiver, " making the patient feel much better than they really do by eliminating most or all of the pain that would come from sneezing, coughing, yawing, and laughing. In my case I recall how the laughter had to stop once the morphine did, for several weeks. I saw the spirometry device as a challenge to get my reinflated lung back up to speed again. ________________________________ From: " kotacj@... " <kotacj@...> achalasia Sent: Sun, July 4, 2010 8:43:31 AM Subject: Re: post myotomy Ok I am about to be nobody's favorite person so here goes. Coughing...deep breathing...painful..yes without a doubt. Flip side totally, undeniably, absolutely necessary post op. They will even give u an incentive spirometry device in which you are to inhale deeply many times triggering a cough. Why, c and db (coughing and deep breathing) clear the lung of anesthetic gases, mucus and promotes oxygenation of healing tissue and prevents post op pneumonia. While laying on an or table, under anesthesia and other paralytic agents your lungs do not clear like they do when you r carrying out your normal activities. So when u come out of that anesthesia one of the first things nurse will tell u to do is " cough, breath deep better yet yawn. " No wonder nurses r called " Ratchett " . Any nurse worth her salt will encourage u to inflict pain upon yourself, guilty as charged. Splitting the incision site with a hand or pillow will help. They may even give to a splitting pillow in the shape of a pair of lungs, my son has one signed by dr rice and other nurse ratchetts. Pain medication also cause shallow respiratory effort. So take your pain medicine, pick up your cough pillow, blow into your is device and have a good cough. Screaming in pain also help clear the lungs...tmi I'm sure. U didn't ask but I am a ratchett so I felt compelled to torture.....angela Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry post myotomy YES, sorry I forgot to say that...yes, I had a VATS. My ribs DID hurt a lot for a while...and whatever you do, don't cough! But, truly, I couldn't have avoided this surgery. I was not getting food and drink down the right way at all. I was at a food court, pre VATS, when I decided to try eating some Panda Express noodles along with a giant diet Coke, and they both came out my nostrils IMMEDIATELY! Very attractive! All those extra-long noodles and brown, bubbly liquid! Jeeze! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 wrote: > Pain medication also cause shallow respiratory effort. It may seem paradoxical, but one reason they want you to take pain medication after having a myotomy is so that you will breath more deeply. While pain meds can cause shallow respiration painful breathing has an even stronger effect as people avoid breathing deeply to avoid the pain. There are studies on similar surgeries that show people who don't get enough pain medication are more likely to get lung infections, such as hospital pneumonia. I don't like narcotics. I don't like the way they make me feel or what they do to my mind. I feel sick on them. After my myotomy I didn't think the pain was all that bad so I didn't push the button on the morphine device. They kept telling me to push the button because they wanted me to breath normal and not fight it because of pain. I though I was breathing normal, but then I was on drugs so who knows. I developed a fever and of course they told me that was because I wasn't breathing right. Perhaps because of the sweating I did they wanted to change the sheets. I had to stand. Big mistake. With the morphine I became sick and started heaving, which is probably when I developed my paraesophageal hernia. After that they gave me a shot to prevent the nausea. A little late I would say. I agree with you, working the lungs by, coughing, laughing and yawning are all good, even if it hurts a little. The pain meds are also good and one should take enough to be sure to not hinder breathing because of pain. The thing to avoid is heaving and vomiting. Take the pain meds as needed but if one get nauseous from that type of medication be sure to get something to prevent nausea. notan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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