Maybe I should try more prebiotic if the fiber doesn't work or should I try more prebiotic first because eating yogurt is helping and I have been eating a big piece of extra sharp cheese before I go to bed seem to help more????

Also you could try giving up dairy foods to see if it helps. I became lactose intolerant for a while after my surgery.

After RNY in 2011 , I started having bowel problems diarrhea gas stomach indigestion and I chalked it all up to the fact that it was bariatric surgery, then February 2021 started having diarrhea almost every day sometimes twice a day so I saw a GI doctor and he did a colonoscopy and discovered that I had Crohn's disease and was extremely lactose intolerant.

my treatment was prednisone for 30 days and then Humira I guess for the rest of my life. I suggest you see another doctor other than the bariatric doctor.

diarrhea is now gone and getting normal bowel movements still have indigestion and gas problems, working on that.

good luck

I had the ds 18 years ago. I'm 37. I don't work out, I don't follow any diet, I do take all my pills, I don't go out of my way to eat sugar or carbs and I eat enough protein and drink enough water. Also I would cut soda out sugar alone will give you the runs. I take imodiem on the morning which is a game changer. Also don't accept a problem as bad as the runs I suffered and even stopped working for awhile and it was not my diet it was more just following the rules we All should know. I also take everything I can to constipated me. Like beside imodiem think rice, think lots of rice in fact, think water, think imodiem, fiber can make you poop more. You might want to stop all fiber. Most people get enough fiber from food and I'm just saying I tried fiber for the same issues and I thought it helped at first but it didn't. You can message me but yea I just had stopped following the rules and the only strange thing about me is even when I was fat I never cared about sugar. Good luck. See a different doctor if he tells you stuff that isn't helping.

Hello,

I'm pretty sure the sleeve part is stretched out,

I actually had a 1st VSG in 2009,which was made too large.

I had the DS in 2012, they didn't touch the sleeve part.

However, I had another VSG in 2014 to make it narrower.

I have had blood tests that have recently shown that I malabsorb more (several medications taken orally show less in my blood now, plus lower nutrients/vitamins for the same amount taken in orally).

I wonder if there's something making me malabsorb alcohol also, as it does my oral meds.

It seems weird though, since, as you said, at this point, I should be absorbing more (and clearly, I have been able to eat almost normal portions of food for years),

So I'm still confused with this phenomenon of not feeling the effects of alcohol