Rough Couple Days

Jul 24, 2009

I have been having difficulty with food lately.  I am at the pureed/soft food stage.  Based on the information provided by my physician's office I should be able to take in about 8 oz per meal. 

I can't.  I am not so concerned with that as much as I am the fact that for the last three consecutive days I have bee throwing up.  I am not sure why.  I don't eat and drink at the same time.  I make sure it has been a minimum 30 minutes from the time I drank my last sip til I take in food.  As state previously all foods are soft or pureed.  Regardless of texture I am chewing a minimum of 40 times so that everything is the consistency of liquid in my mouth.  It takes me a minimum of 45 minutes to eat a meal and my meals average 4 ounces.  when I am through eating, it is at least 45 to 60 minutes before I start drinking anything.

What I am finding is that things feel like they are not passing through and a I get pain at the top of my stomach.  If it is just a slight twinge then I am usually OK.  If it is like a stabbing pain, I know I am going to throw up.  Today for my second meal I had about 5 ounces of soup.  I threw this up over the course of 2 hours.  Yesterday it was a plain baked potato and Wednesday it was veal.  OK, with the veal and the potato I thought it was just due to the fact they were new foods.  But the soup, I have been eating soup since the surgery.

I have been drinking mostly water (I have had some Crystal Light and decafinated homemade unsweeted iced tea) and with the time constraints regarding drinking I am finding it difficult to get in more than about 40 ounces in daily.  Has anyone had the same thing happen?  If so, what did you do?

I'd appreciate any suggestions as I really need this to work and I am getting a little down.

Lynn

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