Stocking up on supplies and have a question

[Guest guest]

My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

For what it's worth (I am three weeks post op today) I drank all of

those products.

1. I ended up using Myoplex ready mixed in little cartons because

they weren't so sticky as some others

2. I used good old-fashioned prune juice though I had Metamucil on

standby

3. My favourite new thing is Thai take out (a very sloppy curry)

liquidised, strained and then turned into a soup with milk or chicken

stock.

4. I still have a cupboard full of Ensure etc and do slightly have to

discipline myself in taking them. For a couple of days I was a bit

slack on calorie and fluid intake and really felt down. But moving

off Ensure to " real' food (soup - I can't manage anything that isn't

strained...) had a very good psychological effect.

One other tiny thing - my face was quite numb and my lips got very

sore because of all the saline etc. a girlfriend bought me a natural

sponge to wash my face with - it is fantastic.

Hope all goes well with you.

>

> My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

> Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

> everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

> what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

For what it's worth (I am three weeks post op today) I drank all of

those products.

1. I ended up using Myoplex ready mixed in little cartons because

they weren't so sticky as some others

2. I used good old-fashioned prune juice though I had Metamucil on

standby

3. My favourite new thing is Thai take out (a very sloppy curry)

liquidised, strained and then turned into a soup with milk or chicken

stock.

4. I still have a cupboard full of Ensure etc and do slightly have to

discipline myself in taking them. For a couple of days I was a bit

slack on calorie and fluid intake and really felt down. But moving

off Ensure to " real' food (soup - I can't manage anything that isn't

strained...) had a very good psychological effect.

One other tiny thing - my face was quite numb and my lips got very

sore because of all the saline etc. a girlfriend bought me a natural

sponge to wash my face with - it is fantastic.

Hope all goes well with you.

>

> My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

> Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

> everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

> what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

I bought Ensure with fibre (along with regular Ensure, fruit juices,

etc). I'd go easy on the fibre, despite a friend's warning that it

could be quite painful if things didn't move, after a week on a

liquid diet, I had 2 days of the runs (the worst part of my

recovery). Picture a house with one bathroom, me the sole occupant

for most of that time : <

Anyway, when I told a vet here (Cheryl or checsmia) what I'd been

drinking, she said stop drinking the Ensure with fibre. That helped.

Good luck with your prep.

>

> My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

> Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

> everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

> what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

I bought Ensure with fibre (along with regular Ensure, fruit juices,

etc). I'd go easy on the fibre, despite a friend's warning that it

could be quite painful if things didn't move, after a week on a

liquid diet, I had 2 days of the runs (the worst part of my

recovery). Picture a house with one bathroom, me the sole occupant

for most of that time : <

Anyway, when I told a vet here (Cheryl or checsmia) what I'd been

drinking, she said stop drinking the Ensure with fibre. That helped.

Good luck with your prep.

>

> My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

> Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

> everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

> what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

My only comment would be don't stock up too much. I ended up not touching most

of the

healthful things I bought preop: protein powder, liquid vitamins, powdered

vitamin C, soy

ice cream. First, I had no real appetite for a week after surgery. I also think

my

tastebuds changed a little, at least what I normally craved changed. I ended up

eating lots

of pureed mini raviolis and potato/cheddar/bacon soup with chicken broth to

liquefy.

All is not lost though. I'm now almost three weeks post op and I'm eating the

healthy stuff

again.

Maddie

>

> My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

> Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

> everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

> what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

My only comment would be don't stock up too much. I ended up not touching most

of the

healthful things I bought preop: protein powder, liquid vitamins, powdered

vitamin C, soy

ice cream. First, I had no real appetite for a week after surgery. I also think

my

tastebuds changed a little, at least what I normally craved changed. I ended up

eating lots

of pureed mini raviolis and potato/cheddar/bacon soup with chicken broth to

liquefy.

All is not lost though. I'm now almost three weeks post op and I'm eating the

healthy stuff

again.

Maddie

>

> My surgery is scheduled for January 17. I have bought alot of

> Ensure, Boost, Carnation, V8, gatorade, vitamin water. What is

> everyone using as a source of liquid fiber? Any recommendations on

> what brand to buy would be great. Thanks.