Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Liquids tend to feel like they are very heavy in your stomach. The formula can really make you feel full. I would check with your doc and ask them to get a nutritionist involved to help you. Have you had a swallow test done? This will make sure you can physically eat and drink without it going into your lungs. A nutritionist will also be able to help you with why you feel full so quickly.
I kinda think you are right, after going thru oral cancer that a persons stomach must shrink. Before cancer I would be able to eat a big meal, now forget it. I will be starving and at the most I will be able to eat 2 cups of food. Thats pushing myself to eat a few more bites too. I usually only eat around a cup at a time which is why Im always starving. The cup of yogurt is the perfect sized small meal for me. I could eat 2 of them and that would be enough but then an hour later Im hungry again. ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive |