Day three post o -question

Last night I was able to lay in bed four about four hours -great rest. Today the pain is worse than it was but I stopped taking pain meds. Very sore and my new stomach is gurgling very, very loudly -lots of gas
I took some pain meds and everything settled down

Here is a question -I drank over the course of about 3hours 8 oz of a premixed opt fast vanilla protein shake. I really like the taste of these shakes and I thought they would be thin enough for my clear liquids diet. Does anyone have experience with these shakes? Can they be taken when still on clear liquids?

I have not been sleeved yet, but my post op plan says that isopure is to be used on the clear liquid phase and optifast type supplements on the full liquid phase. Wishing you a speedy recovery and congrats on being sleeved!!

 only clears for me the first post op week. you need to have lots of clear fluids. what does your discharge instructions say? best to follow them to the letter.

i was on clears in the hospital and full liquids the day I got home. It was important to get my protein in and Isopure made me sick, ewwww! Obviously follow your doc's orders but mine were to drinkn protein shakes, popsicles, broth, jello and some mild soup the first week post surgery. oh, and the gurgling DOES get better. See my post from 2 days ago "what I've learned at 3 weeks post op."
Take care and good luck to you!

My surgeon's instructions said only clear liquids, with the EXCEPTION of protein shakes. You can have those on the clear as well as full liquid diets. Just be sure you water them down so they are not thick and hard on your stomach. It's funny when your stomach "wakes" up from surgery and makes all those crazy noises !

I am allowed a specific Advocare protein shake (muscle gain) that tastes delicious and goes down easily for me for this first week.   Just 2 of them give me 50 grams of protein for the day.  I'm also allowed skim milk, but that didn't feel particularly good so I will probably hold off on trying that again until my second week diet.  Otherwise I'm doing some chicken bullion cubes and water with a bit of MIO flavoring added.  While I'm gurgling pretty loudly and there is some gas, there really isn't anything painful.  Anyway, I don't want to advise you to try anything that your own doctor hasn't specifically allowed but if you can do the advocare, it is really tasty stuff in my opinion.  Tastes alot like the carnation instant breakfast shakes.

Regards,
Mel