Post- Surgery Food Suggestions

I am having surgery Friday for a fissure, fistula, and skin tag. I was just interested in what specific foods people ate the week or so after surgery that were helpful in having good BMs. So this is kind of a "food roll call"! lol I just wanted a lot of suggestions, since I am going to the grocery tomorrow. Anything you can think of that was helpful to you, would be appreciated! I want to have some diverse ideas. Thanks!

Boiled veggies, yo!!! I love boiled vegetable medley for holy grail turds haha.

I get the vegetable medley prepackaged in bags (because I'm lazy -- you could of course just as easily buy broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, etc. separately) and boil 'em with some broth.

Rank this one high on the fiber, flatulence, and soft stool meter, but low on the flavor meter Still, it was and still is a staple of my patent-pending "No Mo' Fissures Diet".

Ok and the shorter answer: eat whatever you've been eating that's led to soft, regular stools. Honestly I wouldn't make any drastic changes just because of surgery -- keeping up any established routines is best IMO, but for extra "protection," a heaping helping of boiled veggies can't hurt IMO, particularly in the first few days when folks tend to have a tendency to be a bit "clogged up" from the anesthesia (just be sure not to over-do it and cause the runs obviously).

Thanks Neuro! I was hoping you would say pizza and ice cream . I will give the veggies a try for sure. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

I agree with NG who also gave me advice before my LIS

Keep the same diet that worked before LIS while recovering, maybe a little more veggies or fruit.

Thanks Dawn! By this time tomorrow, I will have had the surgery. GULP!

You can do it Summer! I was the biggest cry baby with my fissure and before my surgery. NG witnessed it! Lol. If I could do it, anyone can!

hehe Thanks Dawn...that makes me feel better! Okay, I think I can...I think I can! I am thinking positive now!

Dawn wrote:You can do it Summer! I was the biggest cry baby with my fissure and before my surgery. NG witnessed it! Lol. If I could do it, anyone can!

LOL I did witness yours Dawn ... the same way Kim, CherylK, Fissulyna, Tabby, derryboy, Sidra, Corsi, and I'm sure others witnessed my own pre-surgery cry-babiness

SummerGal, we have an old saying around here: "he who cries the most before surgery recovers the fastest" ... okay ... so I just made that crap up but seriously just about everyone here was SUPER anxious before LIS. And that includes some "surgery vets" who'd had previous surgeries (in other parts of the body) too. Now if you weren't worried, then I'd definitely think there's something wrong with ya

Oh ya and expect to be a wee bit constipated after surgery. Your body's eating-processing-pooping plumbing may be sort of moody for a few days, and that's normal. I usually poo about 6-8 times a day (yup normal pattern my whole life) and after LIS I didn't poo for an entire day. Just keep up your diet and everything will return to normal eventually.

I'll agree with all that NG! I'd had surgery many times before but the thought of ass/fistula surgery had me sobbing all the way home from the hospital - oh and most of that night - and every time I thought about it! I even cried and wouldn't get out of the car on the day of the surgery - LOL - poor hubby had to coax me out like a 3 year old. It's quite funny now.
All the time I had the fissure I ate the fissure-diet. The day of the surgery at the hospital they offered me normal food, and I actually went onto normal food after that, with absolutely no ill effects. I never suffered constipation though, it would obviously be different for folks who do.
This time after surgery I stuck with soup for nearly a week, then left it a couple of weeks before resuming my low-carb diet, which is fine now I've found movicol!
Eat a little of what you fancy - everything in moderation!

I was *so* afraid of the surgery I called the weekend before to cancel...but it was Christmas time and no one was there, and the recorded message I left didnn't get through to my surgeon. I finally went through with it and now, knowing what I know, I would do it again in a heartbeat!!

NG wrote:SummerGal, we have an old saying around here: "he who cries the most before surgery recovers the fastest"

NG, I think you may be on to something! Are you picking on me?!! LOL

Kim, the CRS canceled my surgery once then the Surgery Center canceled on me the second time I was scheduled or I would have probably did the same thing! By the time my surgery date came, I was ready to just get it over with. I was still scared, cried like a baby. I remember the nurse telling me to try not to cry because I would be all congested, snotty and it wasn't good to do before being put to sleep. My CRS remembered me crying before and after surgery that day. She told me at my follow-up, she told them hurry and knock her out! Lol. I was a little embarrassed that she remembered but was happy to be able to laugh about it after my surgery!!

Dawn, I cried right before my first surgery, which was an appendectomy, as I was alone when the old appendix was diagnosed as ruptured (my wife was out shopping, lol) and they had to do emergency surgery so there I was, by myself and facing the knife. As for the LIS, I was quite afraid the night before (I had this irrational fear of the general anesthesia, not the surgery per se) but found myself stoic and calm that morning. Once the admission nurse drew a smiley face on my hand, I relaxed, oddly...everything was fine and a month later, I was living life without AF...

Kim,
I've been put to sleep 5 times prior to my LIS. My first surgery was at 3 months old. I never really thought about the anesthesia I guess it's true what they say(lol) "ignorance is bliss."

My daughters appendix's burst when she was in high school. She was in horrible pain, and with my ex (her father) for several days visitation. I kept trying to get her dad to let me get her because I was worried her appendix could be the source of her pain. He was a jerk and it was a big power struggle. The day I got her from him, I took her straight to the hospital. Her appendix had burst for God knows how long. The Dr. told me one more day and gangrene would have set in. They had to rinse out her organs where they had burst. She spent 5 days in the hospital.
I don't blame you at all, the pain is horrible and being alone had to be scary. Oh and us women are always shopping,Lol.

So happy with my LIS results too and I'm with ya- I'd do it again in a heartbeat and much faster if I needed it again.

WOW!

GLAD she made it through OK!