Question:
Having problems when I drink.
I am three weeks out yesterday. I am down 32lbs so proud of myself. I am having problems with getting fulids down without it hurting. I slip my water and it still hit my stmach like a break. My mouth is always dry. I can eat and it dont hurt but when I drink it do. I eat ice all day to keep my mouth from being so dry. The ice dont hurt. — JANIECEMOM (posted on June 2, 2010)
June 2, 2010
Call the doctor. It should not hurt when you drink
— muffy1970
June 2, 2010
You could be ingesting some air with the water, be sure not to gulp just
sip, or try to use ice chips and take a teaspoon full, let it slowly melt
on your toungue, every 15 minutes. set a timer to remind you if you trow up
after taking in water call your surgeons office. vomiting is a sign of a
stricture. Very commom are both takeing in air when swollowing and
strictures. try the advice I gave you for swollowing air. Stricture is when
the stoma shrinks and won't let anything pass. The surgeon uses a scope to
go in as streach the stoma back to the size he set it at. No pain just
inconvience. Good luck.
— marymazilla
June 2, 2010
That is very normal. Especially if it is ice cold water, the cold water
hits your stomach which is not healed after only 3 weeks and causes the
stomach muscle to tighten up (your stomach is made up of muscle). Anyway,
as my surgeon put it you get a muscle "cramp" and it constricts
your stomach causing pain. For the first 2 months after surgery until my
stomach healed I couldn't drink anything cold, even tap water was hard to
handle. I drank a lot of warm liquids! Warm orange crystal light was very
soothing for me, I know a lot of people in my support group drank warm tea
and quite a few drank bouillion. It will get better, just be patient. I
kept a drink warmer on my desk at work and kept a warm mug of something on
my desk and I sipped on it all day in order to get my liquids in. Slowly I
was able to tolerate tap water and after about 5 or 6 months I was back
drinking ice water. Good luck I am sure you will do wonderfully! Enjoy
your new life it is the best...
— brindledanes
June 3, 2010
I believe that is normal,I had the same problem when I was three months
out.I had problems with drinking any fluids too. now almost six months out
I can drink large glasses of ice tea and hot tea or hot chocolate. Please
don't worry about it this will pass for you too. Just continue taking small
sips for now.
— Mary D.
June 6, 2010
I HAD PROBLEMS GETTING LIQUIDS DOWN AFTER SURGERY . AS TIME WENT ON IT GOT
BETTER AND BETTER . JUST SIP SMELL AMOUNTS AT A TIME AND IF YOU CAN'T DRINK
ANY MORE DON'T FORCE YOURSELF . WAIT A WHILE BEFORE YOU TRY AGAIN . KEEP
EATING THE ICE IT'S JUST AS GOOD , OR MAKE YOURSELF SOME CRYSTAL LITE ICE
CUBES FOR A LITTLE FLAVOR . YOU COULD EVEN TRY SOME SUGAR FREE POPSICLES .
I'M 14 MONTHS OUT AND I STILL CAN'T DRINK FLUIDS LIKE I USED TO . IT DOES
GET BETTER ...........ROGER
— ROGER COTE
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