Re: Re: i need help! Hope This helps!

April 20, 2005

thanks for your help. My throat and tongue kill when i try to swlaoow anything

- did this happen to you? I also have little white dots on my tongue. I keep

brushing and cleaning my mouth after I drink but I am in more and more pain.

Any ideas? I also have a fever - did that happen to you?

janepapillion wrote:

I soooo know how you feel! :( I am so sorry. I was an aweful

patient and felt like I was dying the first week then I got sick while

wired the 3rd week and was caughing up flem...while wired. Let me say

this. You NEED vitamins and minerals. I didn't like anything on my

liquid diet BUT towards the end I had to take in something because I

was blacking out and feeling like death.

I had to use a syringe or a zip N sqeeze the entire time 5 1/2 weeks.

Do you have a zip n squeeze? They are good for drinking. You need

vitamins and calories. I drank whole milk with carnation instant

breakfast, juice is good IF it doesn't irratate your teeth. Hmmm...

capri sun (you can squeeze the juice out, box juices? Chicken broth

may help the throat. Rinse or swish at least with salt water. I had

thin thin potatoe soup no creamy or chunks in it. thin smoothies? Do

you have someone to make you any of this?? I honestly didn't have

energy to do a THING for myself.

The thing that got me through alive was vanilla icecream blended with

whole milk lots of whole milk and sometimes I would pour in cherry

juice from jarred cherries. It gave it a kick. I know you feel like

crap but you need to keep the mouth VERY clean brush and massage those

stitches as much as possible. Rinse after every meal with your

perscription mouthwash or salt water and take a liquid vitamin maybe.

I hope you are ok hang in there!!

Jane

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> i am 1 week post op from upper jaw surgery and i am miserable!

> i have been running a fever and have been dehydrated. my throat hurts

> soo much that it is hard for me to drink. has anyone had problems like

> this? i need some help and support cuz every day i wake up feeling a

> little worse instead of beeter!

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