Re: please tell me it gets easier to eat the further post opt you are..

[Guest guest]

Dont Worry it will get alot easier but it may take a few more months so just

hang in

there.

> i am now 23 days post opt and have lost 17 lbs so far by my doctors

> scales. I just need to know, does it get easier to eat or will it

> continue to feel like i have food stuck in my chest..

>

> amy lap 6-23-04

> 312/294 now

[Guest guest]

I had a sore pouch after eating most foods until I figured out which

ones I could most comfortably eat but I'd say this happened until I

was about 3-4 months post-op.

At first your pouch is still healing and swollen from surgery I am

told so it feels the worst then but improves with time.

Colleen

Lap-RNY 11/03/03

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> i am now 23 days post opt and have lost 17 lbs so far by my

doctors

> scales. I just need to know, does it get easier to eat or will it

> continue to feel like i have food stuck in my chest..

>

> amy lap 6-23-04

> 312/294 now

[Guest guest]

That could be it for some people. For me it wasn't an issue because

I ate slowly and chewed thoroughly and it still didn't help. Of

course I had to learn the hard way how much I could safely eat. That

did not take long at all though! I think I made myself sick twice in

those first two months and that was it. I never ate until I was sick

again.

For me it was just a matter of letting that pouch adjust and heal.

Once that happened I felt much better.

Colleen

> CY,

>

> Is it possible that the problem is our education?

>

> After the surgery don't we all need to re-learn how to eat?

>

> Most of us probably wolf down our food. Not chewing

sufficiently? Isn't

> that also one of the things that makes some of the discomfort

disappear?

>

> > I had a sore pouch after eating most foods until I figured out

which

> > ones I could most comfortably eat but I'd say this happened

until I

> > was about 3-4 months post-op.

> > At first your pouch is still healing and swollen from surgery I

am

> > told so it feels the worst then but improves with time.

> > Colleen

>

> Just a thought.

>

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