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Posted 4/24/2013 3:22 PM (GMT 0)
Just curious- I know everyone is different: anyone have issues tolerating oat meal (porridge), nut butters, or almond or other nut flour breads with your ostomies? These are three things that are problematic for my UC colon that i hope to use more liberally one day- i can see that they all may have some "scraping" fiber in them though. Nut butter i guess should be fine smooth but i notuce that even smooth sun butter has small ( tiny)specks of solid throughout.
Posted 4/24/2013 4:31 PM (GMT 0)
I don't eat porridge or nut butters but one of the audiologists at my clinic is fond of buying a tub full of mixed salted nuts each week for all of us to snack on and I've never had a problem eating them :)
Posted 4/24/2013 5:09 PM (GMT 0)
I am only 6 weeks post op and have been eating oatmeal and peanut butter for weeks now with no problem. These things do thicken output, but that's not a bad thing. I haven't tried nut flours yet, but don't see why they would be a problem either.
Posted 4/25/2013 1:01 AM (GMT 0)
I eat all of that stuff, regularly. In fact this morning had homemade oatmeal and almond butter toast for breakfast.

Pro - I swear by all of your questions and postings about sports activities, eating.. you could be my twin brother. Except I already have a perm ileo!

Isn't your surgery soon?
Posted 4/25/2013 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
Oatmeal is one of the first things I ate when I got out of the hospital after surgery. It is what my surgeon recommended. I also ate a ton of peanut and almond butter on crackers, bread and pretzels. I was found to be deficient in protein after surgery and these were a good source.
Posted 4/25/2013 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks, everyone. Good to hear that, blueheron. How about meat? Anyone get back on good meat early after surgery without issues? i gather well cooked chicken and fresh grilled fish should be a non issue. Steak could be a bit tough for a bland diet, I gather. I will certainly chew chew chew.
Posted 4/25/2013 5:07 PM (GMT 0)
Pro, I am only 3 weeks out and I had steak the other night. I cut it into very small pieces and did chew it more carefully than most foods. I had no issues at all.
Posted 4/25/2013 5:10 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks PSUDOC. Ddd45- yeah will post frm the "other side" lol. Dont wanna jinx myself before it happens because It hasnt happened till it happens.
Posted 4/25/2013 5:28 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah I've had no problem with any of these foods. Meats haven't caused any problems either, though if I get a particularly tough bite of steak that I can't make any inroads on with my teeth I will probably discreetly spit out the gristle. Doesn't happen too often :)
Posted 4/26/2013 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
I don't eat oatmeal cause i think it's super gross, but apple sauce is the same consistency and it's fine. I don't eat nuts because I don't like them, but I do occasionally eat a snickers bar and haven't had trouble with the nuts in it. Or with the nuts and stuff in spice cake. I love peanut butter, it's my main staple!
As for meat, for the first few months just avoid stringy meats, or tough meat. But you don't want to eat tough meat anyway.
The only things I don't eat are carrots, because they are gross coming out and the pulp from oranges, pineapples, muscadines and scupperdines. I just spit that part out.
Posted 4/26/2013 2:46 AM (GMT 0)
I have a bit of a problem with Oatmeal. Not that it clogs me up, it just pushes everything straight out of me! It used to be my pre-workout go-to meal and I've had to change it because my bag will start to get uncomfortably full for exercise.

I had chicken like six days after surgery. If you are craving beef and you are worried about blocking up early on, try some ground beef. Or ground bison :P
Posted 4/26/2013 2:46 AM (GMT 0)
Oh, and I lived on peanut butter and still do. I know it's technically a legume, but it seems very similar to other nut butters.
Posted 4/26/2013 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
I don't have any problem eating meat. I ate fish, chicken, ground meat like bison or beef, and even roast beef made tender in the crock pot in the initial couple of weeks after surgery. I even remember eating turkey, chicken and salmon while I was still in the hospital. I didn't try steak in the first eight weeks, but now I eat it just fine. I also peeled casings off of sausages during those first 8 weeks, but now I don't. I think I must digest meat pretty well because I never see a trace of it in my pouch. The one exception is shrimp. I eat it, but keep quantities low and chew it really well. Not sure why that doesn't digest as well for me.
Posted 4/29/2013 1:18 AM (GMT 0)
My surgeon told me to eat lots of meat after surgery because the protien really helps the healing process.  Obviously chicken and fish are the most recommended and, eat small pieces and chew well but she really pushed the protien benefit.  Six months later I'm still eating lots of chicken and fish and have never had a problem.  In fact, it's one of the easier things for me to digest.
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