I am beating myself up for this one - 6 wks post-op and last night I drank 2 iced-down glasses of wine over about 2 hour period. It was dumb and I was not thinking because at 4 am I awoke with a burning tummy. TMI - but the bathroom was not pretty: sweating, wanting die, other gross things and me laying on the cold bathroom floor... I am thinking it was the sugar in the wine that caused the "dumping"?? I feel like craaaap today.

I haven't had the problem from wine, thank god. But ice cream gives me the symptoms you just described. It is horrible. I can eat weight watcher ice cream though.

I have not had ice cream yet... but sure i will someday - WW sounds like a good idea!

I just thought it was odd how it took several hours before I had symptoms - I remember reading others experiences and it sounds like it happens pretty much right away???

i have had the same experience on 2 different occassions. Both times were later... called "late" dumping. Your sugar most likely spiked after the wine... then dropped really really low because your body produced too much insulin to bring it down. That is how it was explained to me. I started sweating and feeling AWFUL and ended up on the toilet for a while. Not a fun thing. I actually checked my sugar (i have a machine from my last pregnancy) and it was 43 so I drank juice to bring it back up and that helped the second time and it did not last as long. For me... it was after eating a some marshmallows with my little girl. And another time from eating ice cream. :/

Thanks for the responses! I have never heard of "late dumping" - good to know.

I didn't know we could get dumping with the sleeve! I thought it was just too much sugar with bypass patients. Good to know.

I drank a whole bottle of wine yesterday over the course of several hours and right before I was about to go to bed I had loose stools. I'm 5 months post op and was playing video games and this was my first time drinking this much but yup I was off and on the toilet all night and this morning. Alcohol did that to me before surgery but it usually didn't happen until the morning. I learned my lesson and plus I didn't eat while I was drinking and I'm sure that made it worse. I don't consider it dumping though.

I'm thinking it is because f the dehydration alcohol causes more than it being dumping. From my experience dumping is pretty sudden and almost as soon as I ingest the sugar and it hits my tummy.

Dumping also passes pretty quickly. If you're still feeling bad today I'm thinking its because of the alcohol dehydration. Drink plenty of water today. More than usual.

Late dumping is from the sugars changing drastically and very quickly. But actual dumping is from our bodies not processing the sugars correctly and it DUMPS into our intestines too quickly. Which is where the name dumping comes from.

Thanks for the feedback on this! I figured I was way too dehydrated the next day - especially since I still struggle with getting all the water in.... I wonder how liquor with a sf mix would sit with me. Not that I am in any hurry whatsoever but wine seems out for now and I know beer is off the table... sigh. all well.