Hi Ali
No real celebrations, big bunch of flowers and family lunch today, very nice:-)
I had terrible trouble with my gut from end to end after transplant, only settled really slowly, still not 100% but close now. I was on metoclopramide, gaviscon and lansoprazole for about 2 months afterwards and only ate bland stuff for weeks. In the old days in hospital it was called a gastric or 'white' diet. ( chicken, rice, yoghurt, fish, toast, porridge etc.) I kept on that with a few vegetables until Christmas then started eating a bit more varied stuff. The first few months I only ate because i had to, not because I wanted it. I did cook but often couldn't bear to eat it. I now get hungry again and am enjoying food. Don't push too hard because it's easy to become food averse. I felt much better when I stopped the lansoprazole, so it worked well for a while and then seemed to not work, I suppose the gut begins to repair and then you begin to not need the meds and begin to get better it's a bit of a juggling act, I have had a couple of gut upsets when I went back on it and again it helped for a few days then started to make me feel more nauseous again. Trial and error and that individuality thing again! Ice cream, Eton mess, wine and chocolate were my test dishes and when I was able to eat them again I knew I was on the mend. Still can't do the wine yet though:-( You'll have to have it instead! Get yourself away for a week or 2 now and blow away the cobwebs. Your mum will want you to relax a bit now and anyway she'll only be sleeping 🙂
Love Helen
