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Title: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 01, 2016, 04:32:50 AM
Day 5 of recovery from double jaw surgery. I didn't think being on a liquid diet for 2 weeks was going to be so bad. I begged Dr Z yesterday if I can go on rice pudding but he wasn't having any of it and said 2 weeks on liquids. Also, having a constant blocked nose and not being aloud to blow your nose is super frustrating.
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Lazlo on November 01, 2016, 08:14:52 AM
Day 5 of recovery from double jaw surgery. I didn't think being on a liquid diet for 2 weeks was going to be so bad. I begged Dr Z yesterday if I can go on rice pudding but he wasn't having any of it and said 2 weeks on liquids. Also, having a constant blocked nose and not being aloud to blow your nose is super frustrating.

WHY ON EARTH DID I HAVE NEITHER PROBLEM? Dr. SInn wanted me eating pudding and stuff by Day 7. And I never had a blacked nose throughout the whole procedure??? So weird.
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: marcus3415 on November 01, 2016, 09:53:08 AM
I was on liquids for 6 weeks and barely moved on to soft foods at 6-8
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 01, 2016, 03:35:36 PM
I could noway do 6 weeks. There'll be nothing left of me. I'm already missing eating meat
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: ditterbo on November 01, 2016, 03:43:22 PM
This 'longing' for solid foods, trying to better understand it for what it's worth weighing potential of future bimax...   Is it like an instinctual ravishing pain for food as if you're not getting enough through your liquid diet? Mental or physical pain?  Are you dropping pounds at a seriously unhealthy rate and starting to literally look emaciated?  Congrats on almost completing the first week post op!
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 01, 2016, 03:50:07 PM
It's physical and mental. My stomachs constantly rumbling and it didn't help today when I stepped out my room to see Dr Z and right in front of my door was a buffet table with kinds of food.
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Lazlo on November 01, 2016, 07:23:02 PM
I mean really? You know how much like yogourt, ice-cream, milkshakes, gatorade basically mainlined into my veins.

I mean by day 3 I was doing puddings and stuff.

It was a bit annoying at first sure, but I was like swallowing food and sort of chewing up stuff half-way by week 3.
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 02, 2016, 05:48:34 AM
I'm not even on stuff like that. That's soft food which I'm aloud after two weeks. I'm on liquids at the moment which consists of two things, water and really watery soup
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: boyo on November 03, 2016, 12:40:53 PM
any nerve damage?
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 04, 2016, 03:54:38 AM
any nerve damage?

No, I'm num on the left side of my top lift, but can feel it when I pinch that area, so I know the feeling will come back
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 05, 2016, 04:34:33 AM
lost 5 kgs in a week of being on liquids. Have another 3 weeks left of liquid diet
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: mike888miller on November 05, 2016, 10:16:33 AM
how liquid does the Food have to be? can you blend meat? you should try to blend Avocados, meat, read potatoes. gosh i am so worried about this aspect.
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 05, 2016, 03:07:06 PM
Clear liquids for the first 4 weeks then soft foods, which means anything blended into pure for another 4 weeks
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Lazlo on November 05, 2016, 06:35:17 PM
trust me regular melted ice cream is FINNNNNE
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: Vic on November 06, 2016, 02:39:42 AM
trust me regular melted ice cream is FINNNNNE

I'm actually using this as a chance to lose some weight though, so don't want to eat anything like ice cream which will put the weight back on
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: sarzo14 on November 13, 2016, 09:38:45 AM
I'm actually using this as a chance to lose some weight though, so don't want to eat anything like ice cream which will put the weight back on
WTH? You are eating less then ever and you're worried about some ice cream?? You are going to lose waigt with or without ice cream trust me ;)
Title: Re: Double Jaw Surgery Recovery
Post by: ditterbo on November 13, 2016, 11:46:36 AM
Could you get like a milk shake from Chik fil a and syringe it in or pour? I'd think two of those a day would get you close to 2k calories.