Hi Danielle,
After starting this thread I found a couple on this forum for support, but I dont mind having a balloon buddy, it helps i think.
Today is day 5 after insertion and i am not going to tell you its been easy. First couple of days i spent in hospital on drips, having anti sick injections and anti spasm injections, they do prepare you for all what you going to go through, they told me it would pass after a couple of days, but I think today is going to be my better day, I may even return back to work too.
The first day i never ate, i couldnt even sip water i was so sickly, i was sick that one day only once, by day two, around 2pm i attempted sloppy mash potato, it tasted really good, you have to sip water too, especially to clean the balloon of any food lying ontop of it.
Day three, i had 4 spoonfulls of porridge very milky so again sloppy, i enjoyed that too, only filled up quickly, in the hospital, they were good with the painkillers and antacid tablets. I came out on day three. I did try to have a yogurt and it lay on my stomach all night and i kept burping it up which made me feel sickly.
yesterday i attempted lumpy sloppy food, still had sloppy for breakfast, ie weetabix in warm milk, for lunch i had cod flakes mashed into mash potato, I still couldnt eat much, for later i had yogurt. I was told i could have scrambled egg, beans etc so today i may have those, although a slice of toast would go down well too with it..lol which will come after 7 days when we go onto normal food.
I do still have gastric pain, especially after drinking water, i dont know why that is, i think its just the way my stomach is protesting about the balloon.
Good luck for your balloon insertion, i am sure you will be fine.
michelle
