Just curious, has anyone ever tried to stop dumping with some glucose jell. If its a severe blood sugar dip couldnt you theoretically come out of an episode with a shot of glucose?

The treatment of dumping is essentially to get your sugar back up and stable, however, if you go straight back to a high carb load food you can dump again, I'm living proof of that. For me, the answer is a small dose of carbs with some Protein to keep me from re-dumping, if I do straight carbs I'll be better for a bit the crash again. It's not fun.

HW 312, pre-op (RNY) 255, current weight 198

Thanks soccermomma

What you described is exactly what i was afraid of. Seems like you could get into a bad spiral. I was just curious if any one tried. I have only dumped once, late dumping. I definately had the sense that eating something would help but i didnt try it. Thanks for the info

I have found that if I am in the midst of a dumping spell, I often can feel much better by [slowly] walking for a few miles. I can't eat any food or drink anything. I have a love/hate with the dumping mode: Love the warning that I am over-doing it; hate the saliva explosion and lightheadedness/vertigo.

I h ave noticed that I don't dump as often if I eat something heavy in protein before something carby.

I have noticed that if I feel like I may have over done it or ate something too fast or whatever I've done to cause dumping syndrome that if I lay completely flat on my back and rub the center of my chest up and down it gets MUCH better. Laying down flat slows down the digestion process which slows the food from going into your intestine too quickly...which causes that nausea called dumping syndrome. The rubbing helps you relax. In my case, I can hear my stomach start to gurgle and digest at a proper rate...really weird I know, but we're all so in tune with our stomachs now it's easy to feel. ......anyway, it works really well for me

To me dumping is a learning exercise. What did I eat, was it too fast, too much, did it have sugar, did I drink too soon after eating and on and on. Sometimes just one bite too much and dumping is the only cure. I try to measure or weigh everything. Going out to lunch is hard because I can not figure out what three ounces looks like!

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I h ave noticed that I don't dump as often if I eat something heavy in Protein before something carby.

Agreed completely. Have to have a decent protein load to balance out the carb load to keep the glucose level stable and not do a roller coaster.

In response to some of the other posts, I have no gurgling, foamies, pressure, pain, etc. 20-30 minutes after I've eaten I'll start to notice my heart is racing....that's my first clue. From there I get hot and sweaty, dizzy, nauseated, weak shaky, and ravenously hungry. If I can get a snack when the tachycardia starts I can usually prevent a full blow dumping episode, if not it's gonna get ugly. All I can do from there is lay down and sleep it off because it is exhausting. I've now had 1 episode of late dumping, about 2 hours after eating. That one caught me by surprise but very similar to the early dumping. My dumping does not seem to be related to how quickly I eat, if I drink, if I eat too much, etc it is entirely carbohydrate driven. (I get super queasy if I eat something with too much fat/greasy but it's nothing like the true dumping I get from carbs)

Agreed completely. Have to have a decent Protein load to balance out the carb load to keep the glucose level stable and not do a roller coaster. In response to some of the other posts' date=' I have no gurgling, foamies, pressure, pain, etc. 20-30 minutes after I've eaten I'll start to notice my heart is racing....that's my first clue. From there I get hot and sweaty, dizzy, nauseated, weak shaky, and ravenously hungry. If I can get a snack when the tachycardia starts I can usually prevent a full blow dumping episode, if not it's gonna get ugly. All I can do from there is lay down and sleep it off because it is exhausting. I've now had 1 episode of late dumping, about 2 hours after eating. That one caught me by surprise but very similar to the early dumping. My dumping does not seem to be related to how quickly I eat, if I drink, if I eat too much, etc it is entirely carbohydrate driven. (I get super queasy if I eat something with too much fat/greasy but it's nothing like the true dumping I get from carbs)[/quote']

Do you still have your gallbladder? It sounds like a gallbladder episode. I got like that way before surgery when I had gallstones. Thanks for sharing, it's good to know that this is a learning experience for us all.

Surgery date 9/4/2013 HW 259 RYN 238, this week 209

The only thing that happens to me when I dump is getting diarrhea. For me it is lots of sugar, especially lactose or high amounts of grease and fat. The only time I get the mouth foams or food stuck feeling is if I eat too much pasta.

Do you still have your gallbladder? It sounds like a gallbladder episode. I got like that way before surgery when I had gallstones. Thanks for sharing' date=' it's good to know that this is a learning experience for us all. Surgery date 9/4/2013 HW 259 RYN 238, this week 209[/quote']

sorry dear, was gone many years before bariatric surgery. Not an option. Per my surgeon I'm a pretty classic carb dumper.

HW 312, pre-op (RNY) 255, current weight 198