feeling sick

i have been having a very rough two weeks health wise. i have dumped about every other day on something random and different. by far the worst was the soy milk/soy protein drink i tried. after 4oz, i was flat on my back with a headache from hades with cold compresses for at least 3 hours. i ate too much the other night and had to throw up for relief which then led to another headache. i'm trying to push in my liquids and proteins, but i'm stuck between half and three-quarters what i'm supposed to have. and today, i have new "fun" weird symptoms of dizziness and this odd electric zipping sensation under my skin (hard to describe other than actually feeling your neurons fire) which leads to a tummy ache and a headache. other than these episodes every 3 or 4 days, i just feel utterly exhausted and worn out. i could and have slept for almost 24 hours which has now left me with my days and nights confused. does anybody have any ideas on what to do to get some relief? my one month check up is next week, but some relief in the interim would be nice. thanks!

Have you called your dietian? Dr Evanson did my RNY on 3/21 and I was feeling awful last week. Not the usual symptoms of dumping syndrome, just nausea and tired all the time.  I saw Dr E on Monday and he told me that I was dehydrated and upped my fluid intake to 80 ounces (how can I get in more fluids?) and said that I may be having "mini dumping syndrome." He also said that I might not be able to tolerate milk since it is a sugar.  Dr E also told me that some patient's have to have IV fluids if they don't drink the specified amount of fluids, he told me I wasn't there YET. I then saw the dietian and she told me not to worry about eating since I wasn't getting that much nutrition from them, I was only eating about 3 ounces a day, and to just drink for the rest of Monday to get rehydrated since I was so far behind in my fluids and then start on Tuesday with getting in all my protein along with 80 or more ounces of fluids. I felt well enough to go to work on Wednesday, but then yesterday afternoon I got real weak and had to go home early. I didn't go in today because I still felt weak and had a headache this morning. So I went from Monday morning until yesterday afternoon without eating anything. Yesterday after I began to feel weak, I ate a few small bits of banana and some mashed potatoes last night. 

I bought some soy milk and couldn't get past the first sip. The dietian gave me some ideas about how to fix my protein shakes. She said to try it in different things, to think outside the box, try peaches, blueberries, chocolate, anything. So I have had 3 shakes where I just took a can of peaches sweetened with splenda and dumped the whole can into the blender with my protein powder and ice. It makes a wonderful smoothie. Tonight I had my son fix one with a cup of water, ice, protein powder, and a packet of SF Hawian Punch. I had to eat the biggest part of it with a spoon. I think it is even better than the peach smoothie.

One more thing I found out was that most of the protein powders are made from milk. I found some at GNC that is made from milk but is lactose free. It hasn't bothered me yet.

i know i'm dehydrated. i've been working on that. i'm actually not doing bad today. not up to 64 yet but close to 50. i went to the other health food store in town and found this protein liquid that you take 1 oz of to get 15g. a few times a day, and that should really help me out. hopefully, i can stomach that. i think it would really help getting in my liquids if they didn't have protein in them. to borrow a word from my favorite 5 year old it's "acky". i was worried that mixing it with fruit would be too much sugar. i'll have to try that this weekend. and yes, i will be sending an email to the nut tomorrow. whenever i think i need to ask a question, i never have the addys on me. i don't seem to have the same problems eating as you do. it's just i get so full from drinking that it's hard to pu**** all in.

The protein powder I got at GNC is Isopure. It has 50g. in 2 scoops. It was one that the dietian suggested I try. So far I have been able to tolerate the taste. I got vanilla. In fact I don't even taste it. You just have to put in enough of the other flavrs to cover it up. They had other flavors like green apple, chocolate, fruit punch, and I think cherry. It is quite expensive. I get full from the shake too and then I can't eat. It doesn't help that you have to wait 30 minutes before and after a meal for drinking and take 30 minutes to eat. That's  1 1/2 hours it takes for a meal. That's why the dietian told me not to worry about eating. I went over my protein yesterday because I had 2 shakes and I did get in my water. I had a few bites of dinner last night but I didn't wait the 30 minutes before and after to eat. Just keep pushing those fluids, that is what has made me feel a lot better.