Help I need advice

Please I need advice. I had GB on Jan 22 and it went great until I started my puréed stage. I ate cottage cheese and got so sick. Stomach pain, throwing up and diarrhea. It lasted a long time and I wasn't sure what it was. Then yesterday morning I ate a little bit of yogurt and OMG. I've ended up in the hospital dehydrated, low on vitamins. I was throwing up all last night, during the night. Dumb me thinks it because I'm now lactose intolerant. I don't know what to eat now since no dairy products. I'm going to be scared to eat anything once I get out of the hospital.  If you've had the same reaction please tell me how you adjusted your diet post-op

RitaL

oh no!  so far I'm keeping everything down, so I don't have any advice but I hope you feel better soon & get some answers  :)

Does sound like lactose intolerance!

Hope you feel better.  I was lactose intolerant prior to surgery and I would swallow Lactaid pills. Now I chew them with dairy and I have no side effects.  I do buy Lactaid milk and just discovered Lactaid cottage cheese, so these I do not need to take the pills with.

Have your surgeon rule out an ulcer... a potential complication post-op, easily resolved with medication when caught and treated early on but can cause some of the issues you are sharing.

Lactose intolerance should not make you throw up. But allergy to dairy would...  Like allergy to proteins in dairy (when, casein,). I know because i have that.  It was hard to diagnose. 

I came back on the hospital through the ER and had a CATSCAN and upper GI and just shows liquids going down very slowly. Can I be allergic since having the surgery?  I've never had a problem with milk products before. 

I got mine 2 years post op, it took me 2 years to get diagnosed. 

My RNY friend - she was diagnosed 1.5 years post op, but from the beginning she had a very hard time to drink any shakes; and to keep anything down.  She ended up in a hospital -ER for dehydration more times that we could count.. , especially in the first 6 months.  

finally one doc did the testing ...and since she stop trying to drink any whey and dairy.. she is doing much better..

You may be lactose intolerant or your system might not be healed enough for cottage cheese or yogurt.  Back in the dinosaur age of 2007 when I had my surgery, it was liquids only for the first two weeks and then tiny amounts of pureed foods.  It was about six weeks before I tried cottage cheese.  Even though your plan allows something your body might not be ready.

The important thing now is to get your liquids in.  It is hard to believe you got low on vitamins in a little over a week.  Usually the body has enough vitamins stored up and deficiencies don't start for a year or longer.

Good luck with everything and let us know how you are doing.