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How do I eat after digestive tract surgery?
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@marshae
Most of us who have had digestive tract surgery find that the advice, "...eat anything you want..." is not always helpful. A visual image that works well for me is to consider your digestive tract as a landscape, and any changes to that landscape (through surgery) alter the way everything flows. As a result, what we eat and how much we eat need to change to accommodate this new landscape.
We have all developed different methods to accommodate this physical change. I usually recommend using a food diary to identify any "trigger foods" that may exacerbate pain, constipation, or other symptoms.
As you mention, small bowel narrowing, is constipation your main problem?
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Constipation used to be my problem until obstruction started. Used to be impacted. I take restoralax every day and have a movement several times a day. Seems that this narrow portion of my small bowel must be the problem. Found that corn made me have a partial obstruction last month. The 2 prescriptions I am on are supposed to help but it still flares up once in a while. I am keeping a food diary every day. The GI specialist told me this past January there is really nothing else they can do for me. Seeing a surgeon was my suggestion when I was hospitalized in August and the doctor there is referring me to a surgeon.