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Found PNET on tail of pancreas but told it’s nonfunctional
Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs) | Last Active: Jan 14 2:54pm | Replies (97)Comment receiving replies
Hello @maggieflorida,
I can understand your husband's post-surgery concerns. I'd like to invite @kim1965 to this discussion as his wife had this surgery (not robotic) this year. I'd also like to invite @vmchow and @pavlina60 to this discussion. I'm guessing that the eating plan will be about the same. Small frequent meals that are light (not high in fat, etc.)
I have personally had three surgeries of the duodenal bulb and the light meals worked best for me. I had well-meaning friends bring me salads, cream-based casseroles after my surgery, however, the broth-based soups (especially chicken) were the best. The heavier foods I mentioned caused nausea and or diarrhea.
Basically, a low residue diet is very helpful for several weeks after the surgery. I'm sure his doctor will give him some advice, however, asking for a registered dietician to visit him before discharge from the hospital is a tremendous idea. There should be no problem getting a referral to a hospital dietician before he is discharged. If you can be present for that consult, it would be most helpful to you as well.
Walking is a very good thing to do post-surgery. It keeps keep the digestive tract moving and is beneficial in many ways.
Does he have a NET specialist?
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Hello @maggieflorida,
My wife had a mass on the tail of pancreas removed 3/2023, along with speen, gailbladder, and debulked as many tumors as they could get. Kim was a type 2 dietabetic before the surgery in March, and we were told she probably become a type 1 dietabetic after the surgery. I confer with Teresa, regarding the walking after surgery. Possibly the best thing you can do, and seems like it would be not the ideal thing to do, but the more you do the better you will feel, at least in our case, and many on this site will agree. Even the day of surgery, she walked about 50 yards up/down the hallway, and felt so much better. The days after the surgery, progressed to multiple laps around our floor. Regarding diet, you will progress as you can tolerate, from ice chips, to clear liquid, to soft food, and so on. You will have a special diet while in the hospital, so your choices will be limited, just get what your comfortable with. We didn't have to request a dietician, they came to see us the day of surgery, to lay out the plan that day and when we left the hospital after 5 days. Good luck with your husband's surgery and let us know if you have any other questions. We are all on the same team. We got this.