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How do I eat after digestive tract surgery?

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Hello @resilience

I appreciate you sharing your eating plan post-surgery. Could you share what type of surgery you had? Did it take a lot of trial and error to find the right foods to eat?

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Life saving burst ovarian cyst- cut horizontal by gyno then and vertical for exploratory by general surgeon. . Doctor was amazed I lived.
Then scar revision - similar to abdominoplasty. Hemorrhaged after. Two years PT.
History of blockages and hospitalizations for 17 years.
Then adlysis surgery to clean out scar tissue.
Researched different Gastro‘s and got many different opinions. Very important to get a handle on your diet and what affects your digestion. It has to do with how much scar tissue is in your intestines because the tube is narrowed. It’s important not to eat something heavy over and over and over several meals perhaps eat it once or twice and then go back to a soft diet. I have learned the hard way that certain foods can start a blockage. I go to Pelvic physical therapy and I get my facial release deep scar tissue release and dry needling. It’s important to keep the abdominal intestinal area open and get the intestines to slide the best they can
I keep different medications on hand for nausea and Gas and acid. It’s all about having the constriction not allowing food to pass through..