I've learned my lesson!!

Just got back from the hospital about an hour ago.

I was sleeved on April 17th. I have not had any problems with loosing weight. ( Thanks be to God)

Since loosing weight hasn't been a problem I figured it was time for a treat.

I've been eating about a cup of some mixed popcorn (Carmel, yellow cheese and white cheese) for the last 3 days.

On Mondays's and Tuesday's my job provides us with lunch. Usually I have some Water with my salad, but yesterday I decided it was time for another treat I had a 7up (fooling my self since it said DIET)

Clearly I was not fooling this sleeve. Also last night my grand baby loves Lucky Charms so passing by the pantry before I went to bed I decided to grab a handful.

Around 10 I started feeling gas pains. I took a gasX. Went to sleep, my cramping woke me up around 3am. I grab 2 gasX because these cramps were more intense than before I went to sleep.

I decided to go sit on the toilet, nothing happen. Crawled back in the bed kept squirming because of the pains. I went to the toilet again.

I was starting to moan by this time, now squirming on the toilet, grabbing the small trash can in the bathroom dry heaving. By this time my husband woke up to come see about me. He grabbed a small towel wet it and came to wipe my face. I was so HOT!

No relief at all..I started sweating like crazy. I had to take off all my clothes. I've never drip sweated before. I got off the toilet and lied on the cold tile. My husband was freaking out telling me to get up asking what's wrong. I couldn't even talk. I was so weak i didn't care what kind of business I would do right there on the floor. Finally I said we have to go to the hospital, I've been food poison.

The 15 minute ride to the hospital was terrible. I tried to focus on other things, my husband actually ran a red light.

Imagine the check in at the ER.

Before I could be taken to a bed I had to get to a toilet immediately. There goes the bad cramp with a gush. I was dry heaving at the same time. The smell was Horrible my husband was in there with me and I had to keep telling him to flush for me because the smell was making me more sick.

I started feeling a little relief . They gave me a shot of morphine and zofran.

I'm home with a sore sour stomach.

My God!

Interesting topic for me right now.

So, let's just politely say that diarrhea has NOT been an issue for me post-surgery. In fact, most days, I'd welcome a bit of it. My old self? Oh, all the time. 3, 4, 5 times a week.

Today, however, is a pretty bad day in the plumbing department, and the second time since January 8 that I'm dealing with it. The first day was about a month or so ago, and I never could figure out what prompted or correlated/caused it.

Today, though, I'm wondering if it's 'dumping,' which I was told by my doc's office is not really something you deal with much on the sleeve. So, what did I eat in the last day? Well, normal Protein Breakfast, lunch, snack, etc. today.

Yesterday, though, I was down at the beach and was 'making do' with New England beach fare. Ended up the day within my calorie range, counting a ton of exercise (run in the AM, 2.5-mile kayak in the afternoon), but ate a lot of garbage. "A lot" is relative, of course, but it wasn't my normal day.

Today, not feeling great. Correlation? Causation? That's my guess, given that it's only the second day since January 8 that's been like this, and by far my worst day 'off the wagon' yesterday.

Yep! Garbage in... Garbage out!

I've had an upset stomach twice in all of my months both times eating something greasy and bad for me while out.

Moral of the story? Don't eat crap.

Don't know if this will help anyone. I have not been sleeved yet. But I was diagnosed with IBS about 20 years ago. I went on a diet to get rid of carbohydrate addiction. It included omitting all grains as well as dairy. All of my IBS symptoms went away. After doing a challenge, I have been diagnosed as gluten intolerant. It has been absolutely life-changing.

I have heard from many people that they become intolerant to lactase or gluten after their sleeve. It may be that a mild intolerance becomes larger after the surgery

I didn't think that you got dumping with the sleeve? This is good to know because I don't

need to eat bad stuff anyway and if this happened to me I definitely wouldn't do it again.

You do not get dumping DUE to the sleeve.

Any time you switch up your diet and eat too much sugar, fat, or in my case DAIRY (due to lactose intolerance) you can experience dumping. It can happen pre-sleeve as well, especially if you go haywire on junk after being on a strict diet for a while.

~Cheri

dumping means the food moves from the stomach to the intestines too quickly. it can happen without the sleeve. but it doesnt have to be junk food. any food, ep any food with sugar or fat, can cause dumping syndrome. i have a friend who has this naturally and she can get sick on any food if eaten too fast or in too big quanities.

dumping means the food moves from the stomach to the intestines too quickly. it can happen without the sleeve. but it doesnt have to be junk food. any food, ep any food with sugar or fat, can cause dumping syndrome. i have a friend who has this naturally and she can get sick on any food if eaten too fast or in too big quanities.

I think I had a bit of this naturally too. I've always had IBS issues before surgery, but now it seems that this has be magnified by 50! I also think some of mine problems are because my gallbladder was removed.