When am I allowed to start eating Beef Jerkey?

Okay so Beef Jerkey is like my favorite all time snack. I am almost 2 weeks post op. I forgot to ask my doctor this afternoon.

I was reading that it has 15g of protein. 80 Calories. 1g of fat 0g of saturated fat. 0g of trans fat.  20mg of cholesterol. 590mg of sodium.  Dietary Fiber 0g. Sugars 3g.

 

When am I allowed to eat my cabient full of beef jerkey? LOL (Yes I have a full cabient.)

You need to ask your surgeon.  We cannot be the ones to give the ok because we don't know his/her protocol of what you can or cannot eat.  Wait until Monday and call.  Do you not have a food plan of the items you can or cannot have at 2 weeks, 4 weeks and so on?   Jane

Well I tried some turkey jerky today at almost 4 weeks out and it got stuck and I was in a lot of pain until I made myself throw it up hours later. I would suggest waiting a good long while. 

Yeah, you need to ask your DR.

I tried at 2+ months, I couldn't eat any meat at all without being sic****il3 months, then fine. Jerky was ok a couple weeks earlier, but I chewed it so much my jaw would hurt the next day.

Ask so you're not sorry.

My doctor said no beef jerky until I was eating regular foods fine, and even then to be careful. However, I started eating the jerky chew (finely shredded jerky tins from jack links) at about 1 month post op. At about 2 months post op I started eating regular jerky, but I had to be really selective about what brand and what pieces I ate. Typically only Jack Links works for me, the really thin and moist pieces. If it is crumbly or thick or too dry and "veiny", it doesn't work well. By veiny, I mean the whitish stringy stuff in the beef jerky. 

I am also a beef jerky lover, but there is no way I would have tried eating regular beef jerky before 2 months post op. Even the shredded stuff is probably too difficult for you now, but feel free to talk to your doctor. But my guess is, they will say to stay away. Your digestive system is still in the raw stages of healing, and the stringy, dense beef jerky is going to be really hard to digest and can cause problems. Be careful in what you decide to do!

I don't know your surgeons plan, so cannot tell you when, but I can tell you that you may find it very difficult to chew it to mush as we are supposed to, and it may cause discomfort, so whenever you are ok'd to eat it, try a very small amount the first time.  I have only found ONE kind of jerky that I can chew sufficiently

Lora

When your doctor allows you on regular food you can try it. Suggest two things.

 

Start with a very small bite and chew it till the cows come home before you swallow it.

 

 

 

Then wait a little while to see what your pouch thinks of it.

One other thing, avoid the jerkeys that are mostly fat, look at the nutrition label.

Also almost any of the jerkeys have a ton of salt so watch what your doing. Salt will make you hold onto water and slow weight loss if you get a lot of it.