Terrifying Dumping Incident + is this normal?

 Just vlogged about my terrifying dumping syndrome experience.  

I need your advice as well!

Check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch

Sorry, I'm not able to access youtube video at the moment.

I did want to say that DSers don't "dump". Dumping syndrome is something that happens with a pouch, not a stomach with pyloric valve. 

Any way you could explain here (for those of us who can'****ch your Vlog) what happened to you? I'm sorry you had a bad experience, whatever happened.

I don't think you had dumping syndrome.   You're only 10 days out?  Is that right?   You just had major surgery and was walking and exerting yourself.  It was hot.   All that for me adds up to what you experienced.  I just think you over did it.

Also ... your stomach IS grumpy right now.   It was just cut to a little sleeve!  It will take time to adjust and will settle down.  

I sub'd to you over there.   I have not made videos for a while but still watch :)

Tom

I would say the same thing....you just had major surgery...some days you can do more than others and you might have just over done it.

ALSO I know some people ARE sensitive to sugar early out.  I was.  In the first two weeks I was told to try yogurt and since I was in Brazil and couldn't read Portugese I bought low fat yogurt but not non sugar---it made me feel somewhat dizzy and sick.  I asked the doc about it and showed him the carton and he told me that it was the yogurt.  I did drink gatorade there with no problem though and this phase of sugar making me sick didn't last too long...maybe a month or so.

Perhaps that is what happened to you.  Don't count out dehydration either, it can sneak up on you and make you feel lower than dirt.   Regular people (w/out having had surgery) get dehydrated and land in the ER, and we are especially suseptible to it when our innards have been rearranged.

Hope you don't have another experience like this.

Also, as an aside, you are a very pretty girl and don't need make up!

Linda

I am with the others, I definitely think you over exerted yourself but I wonder about reactive hypoglycemia from the juice? I am having a DS to escape that but have been seeing DSers post about having it which really shocked me  http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/ON/4207152/The-quotDownquo t-Side-Of-Weight-Loss/#34509402

Very few DSers deal with serious hypoglycemia, at least not the ones I know IRL, and it's rarely a big topic here, although it can happen.  I had irritating hypo before surgery (not as bad as some of my friends, but I'd get shaky and cold and irritable if I missed a meal and close to passing out if I didn't eat once I felt agitated) and the DS has mostly knocked it out.  I have the occasional drop in blood glucose now, but it's very rare and not as dramatic as pre-surgery, and one reason I've had a couple episodes is that I'm pregnant.

I think I might have a slight case of it.  I've had about four episodes post-op and never before.

Hi Sweetie

I watched your video and can tell that the experience was really scary for you.  However, I dont think it was dumping.

You're less than 2 weeks out of surgery!  OMG, when I was at your stage I could barely drag my butt out of bed.  I had problems taking showers on my own.  You walked 20 minutes in the heat, took buses, etc.  I think you just did too much. 

If it's any consolation, I had many moments like that in the first 2-3 weeks.  I felt like total crap and as I said there is NO WAY I could have taken a bus and walked on my own for 20 minutes like that.  But it does get better.

You're right, the cranberry ****tail wasnt a good choice.  You may have had some sensitivity to the sugar, or you may have just done a little too much for where you are in your recovery.

Are you feeling better now?  Stay home with your feet up and make sure you drink extra to make up for the walking you did in the heat, you probablly sweated more, too, and it took a lot out of you.

Take care

 

Two things:

1--You cannot dump after DS surgery any more than you could dump before DS surgery.  Dumping is the result of not having a pylorus.

2--While I understand that you are concerned, I think you've done a bit of a disservice by assuming that it was dumping and then posting a ten minute video claiming that you had dumping so now others who are researching will think that DSers also have dumping syndrome.  I hope that your claim doesn't send someone off to have a surgery that isn't as good.

^^ agreed.

I think age plays a big part of this though... younger people tend to jump to conclusion faster