What does dumping syndrome feel like with the sleeve?

[ava2011 2]

Tonight I had some milk with a little bit of nesquick (1/2T) I started to feel really sick like I wanted to throw up. I start to dry heave a little and felt very weak and overall yucky. My sister finally suggested that maybe I was having dumping syndrome. My sister had gastric and knows about dumping but hers is so different from mine. I was told that with the sleeve we don't dump unless we go way overboard with the sugar. What does dumping feel like with the sleeve? I am 2 months out and this is my first big experience.

[TijuanaPlication 87]

You can search youtube for videos of people dumping. Check this one out

There is early onset and late onset dumping, but the sleeve shouldn't really make people dump. A lot of people don't do well with milk early on and maybe you had a little too much for your sleeve. IMO it doesn't sound like dumping. Just avoid having that again for a while and then only have it in small quantity.

[Tiffykins 672]

Dumping is really rare with the sleeve even though some report it. Considering only 30% of RNY'ers dump, the % is even lower for VSG'ers. However, I developed lactose intolerance and your symptoms sound more like lactose issue rather than dumping. I was able to eat cheese and yogurt, but milk would do me in every time. Reactive hypoglycemia can also be common with the sleeve especially further out, when you have heavy fat or sugar foods after months of not consuming those foods. The lactose intolerance lasted for about a year for me post-op, and I still couldn't drink a lot of milk, but at least I could have some. Around the 3rd month of my pregnancy, it's back in full swing.

[SouthernSleever 228]

If I eat too fast or too much I get sliming. IF I eat too many sweets, like I had 1/2 a piece of rich pecan pie last Holiday, I suddenly feel very tired and sick. My heart races and I feel like I need to lay down. I actually went to sleep on the table at the Waffle house after that pie.

[ava2011 2]

Thanks everyone! I forgot to mention I was drinking lactose free milk. But I did look on the carton and saw 12 grams of sugar per 8 oz plus the sugar in the nesquick. Perhaps I did just drink if too fast. Although I have had watered down applejuice and been fine and that has had high sugar. Southern sleever my experience sounds similar to yours. Would love to hear from anyone else who has dumped!

[Cindy-Lynn 10]

I am sure I had dumping syndrome yesterday after eating a scoop of ice cream at an outdoor music festival. It hit me like a ton of bricks about fifteen minutes after I ate. Nausea, tired and sick. Could barely get up to leave the park. Had to run to the bathroom and felt better right after that. I'll never eat ice cream again. That's the first sweet I've had in three months so I'm sure that's what happened.

[ava2011 2]

Cindy-Lynn -Poor you, sure sounds like dumping. Sorry you had to deal with it in public. I guess this is all part of our learning experience.

[red_delicious 0]

I am pretty sure I had dumping last week when I, too, drank chocolate milk. I know I drank too much, too fast . . . and I certainly did pay for it! Nausea, dizziness, sweating . . . I was rolling around on the bathroom floor . . . not something I am ever going to do again.

[Tiffykins 672]

Here's another topic with really great information and others who have the same symptoms;

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/22734-reactive-hypoglycemia/

[red_delicious 0]

I do not have reactive hypoglycemia . . . I am a full-blown diabetic . . . and for that reason alone, I should not have tried drinking chocolate milk (I had a serious moment of weakness!). My blood sugar was high for a couple of hours after that episode . . .

But it's interesting that what some people mistake for dumping does have another possible cause.

[TijuanaPlication 87]

These links on diabetes may be of interest:

http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/type-2-diabetes/53802-cure.html

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/diabetes/3751535/If-you-are-Type-2-and-considering-WLS/

http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/jillybean720/

I do not have reactive hypoglycemia . . . I am a full-blown diabetic . . . and for that reason alone, I should not have tried drinking chocolate milk (I had a serious moment of weakness!). My blood sugar was high for a couple of hours after that episode . . .

But it's interesting that what some people mistake for dumping does have another possible cause.

[Tiffykins 672]

I do not have reactive hypoglycemia . . . I am a full-blown diabetic . . . and for that reason alone, I should not have tried drinking chocolate milk (I had a serious moment of weakness!). My blood sugar was high for a couple of hours after that episode . . .

But it's interesting that what some people mistake for dumping does have another possible cause.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh I had no idea. I had dumping type symptoms, but come to find out it was the dang gallbladder going out on me LOL. I was over 6 months out, and had made it to goal when the symptoms started. I didn't eat sugar or sweets, it was all super rich, fatty foods. Not huge amounts, but guacamole or heavy, rich sauces like a lobster sauce over meat one night since me into fits and I thought "OH lord, what is this??" I just thought it was from adding new foods into my daily menu since I was trying to get into maintenance. Low and behold, the old gallbladder was full of stones, and icky sludge.

I just wanted to share the link with everyone so they could read what others had gone through especially those further out like the original poster.

[MegInNOLA 531]

I definitely have what I call "dumping syndrome," as it mirrors my sister's dumping syndrome (she had gastric bypass). I had a few sips of a frozen, sweet coffee drink (a pre-op favorite of mine with probably 1000 calories), and felt the symptoms of nausea, hot/cold/clammy alternating, general weakness, and a desperate feeling that something was wrong. I am not lactose intolerant nor diabetic (and I wasn't pre-surgery, either). The symptoms subsided in probably 30 minutes, but it was a horrid feeling.

I've had it before, too, when I ate some sugar-sweetened Greek yogurt (the Oikos caramel flavor)--again, same symptoms of nausea, heart racing, hot/cold/clammy, weakness, and that feeling that something was horribly wrong. Same thing when I ate 1/2 a small piece of shortbread (so I know it's not dairy only that does it). LOL You'd think I'd have stopped trying stupid things by now!!! And actually, I have, because these few episodes were horrible enough that I know my sleeve just doesn't like certain sugary foods. fruit doesn't cause the same symptoms, happily, but I haven't tried fruit juice since right after surgery, as I'm afraid it would be too sweet and cause the yucky symptoms.

So I don't know if that's officially "dumping syndrome," but it feels awful, and whatever it is, I'm going to try to avoid it at all costs. Not a big deal, really, and I'm sort of happy that my sleeve is restricting me that way, too--sugar is just not my friend.

[Rainydayz 27]

Before surgery if I drank some very sweet tea on an empty stomach I would get some of those symptoms i.e. nausea, sweating, racing heart. I just figured it was the sugar doing a number on my blood sugar without anything else in my system to balance it out. I figure with the sleeve it would be the same. I haven't had it since surgery but I haven't had sweet tea or anything very sweet either.

[Sunny702 2]

Oh my ... this happened to me today. I had some frozen yogurt & Yogurtland and I had the nausea, sweating, hot/cold. I had to go home & lay down. It was horrible. I learned my lesson. When I take my daughter I will stick to just the sample cups. lol