Stomach Capacity Post Surgery?

After your fundoplication surgery, or fundoplication plus giant hernia repair like I had, what do you estimate your stomach capacity to be? In a single sitting, how much liquid or soft food are you able to consume comfortably? I'm sure that it's important to maintain small quantities, which I'm doing slowly, but I'm surprised at how little I can eat before I feel full. How does this change over time?

I am 8+ months post-op and even though I was told that there would be NO reduced stomach capacity, I KNOW that I can't eat or drink as much as before surgery. My stomach capacity is still greatly reduced. This is actually a good thing; it helps me keep from overeating.

Also, if I DO eat more than my stomach can handle, I start to feel lousy and overfull within 20 minutes.

It's best to eat slow with very little liquid as you can fill up fast. That's been my experience.

I can only eat (including liquids) about 8 oz on an empty stomach but at least I can tolerate onions, etc. again.

It took until a few weeks ago before I could eat salsa (mild) without a problem.

I still have problems if I try to eat too fast or if I don't chew my food down to an almost liquid before swallowing - even cottage cheese. Feels like it's stacking up from my stomach and as a result I always keep a glass of warm water handy.

On the positive side, I was able to burp almost immediately since the operation.

Aside from a longer recovery than I expected - and not being fully aware of all of the limitations - and for how long - would be entailed, my biggest problem is that either due to my stomach being almost completely above my diaphragm (required hospitalization until the surgery) or the surgery itself, I developed bradycardia and also appear to have some vagus nerve damage resulting in periodic blood pressure drops.