Hello @bdarling82 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I am sorry to hear about your lack of appetite. This can be common with surgery of the digestive tract. As you are just a week from surgery, you might be expecting too much too soon.

I would suggest that you take a look at another discussion group on Connect, "How Do I Eat After Digestive Tract Surgery." Here is a link to the discussion: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-do-i-eat-after-digestive-tract-surgery/

I began this discussion after three surgeries of the digestive tract over a 23-year period of time. It certainly will be helpful to you to eat small, light meals. Foods like yogurt, scrambled eggs, baked potatoes, etc.

If after your follow-up appointment with your surgeon, you are still having an appetite problem, you might ask for a referral to a registered dietitian at the hospital. I have had several consultations and found them very helpful.

For the healing process, it is important to make protein a priority. I still find myself without an appetite, but I make it a point to eat a small, high-protein meal. Would you try to do the same?

@bdarling82, a couple more weeks have passed. How is recovery continuing? How is the appetite?

@bdarling82 I was told to eat 4-5 small meals a day instead of large meals, and to be sure to chew food well. Drink lots of fluids preferably after eating.