Can someone explain what dumping syndrome is and how you felt when you first experienced it? I'm trying to get all of the information I can before I have surgery.

Have you never had explosive diarrhea? Yup. That's pretty much it!

It's also the same thing as Reactive Hypoglycemia, per my doctor. I don't experience the runs at all, ever.

http://diabetes.about.com/od/whatisdiabetes/qt/reacthypoglycem.htm

http://www.reactivehypoglycemia.info/2009/05/the-reactive-hypoglycemia-diet/

Read up, learn it, live it. Having it kept under control makes a huge difference. It sucks, but it is what it is.

Dumping is not always explosive diarrhea. In fact I experienced dumping the first six months after my sleeve and never once had diarrhea. I would however get very nauseous, I would get sweats, and more less feel like crap for about 30 mins. It was usually from eating something with too much grease or something too sweet.

I had my first experience last night. Ate too fast and the pain felt like a tightness in my chest and rose in pain and stayed for about 10 seconds then died down. Then started over and died down. This was for about 15 minutes. I was sweating and sitting in front of a fan. Finally I puked and felt better. It was my fault and I ate the same thing today but slower. You really just have to retrain your life.

I had my first experience last night. Ate too fast and the pain felt like a tightness in my chest and rose in pain and stayed for about 10 seconds then died down. Then started over and died down. This was for about 15 minutes. I was sweating and sitting in front of a fan. Finally I puked and felt better. It was my fault and I ate the same thing today but slower. You really just have to retrain your life.

I'm not so sure that was dumping so much as getting stuck though I could be wrong. Dumping tends to happen when the foods, again usually high sugar or high fat, hit the blood stream too quickly I believe.

It was pretty much both. BBQ ribs. lol. sauce and fatty. Not smart. Could be blockage. I lost track of how I chewed.

I had it today when I ran out of sugar free juice and thought the Orange juice sounded good. Nope, OJ has too much sugar in it. Lots of diarrhea.

It was pretty much both. BBQ ribs. lol. sauce and fatty. Not smart. Could be blockage. I lost track of how I chewed.

So when you slip up and eat too fast does your mind quickly remind you to slow down?

Do you have diarrhea with the sleeve and the bypass?

This was the first time I forgot to really count chews. I WILL NEVER forget again. It hurt that bad. No diarrhea for me. I puked for about 10 seconds. No acid. it was done. I felt normal after that. But remember, all people all different.

What do you mean when you say you counted your chews?

Well, we can't eat like we use to. When you hog down on your food and not chew it down to small sizes, it will block the heck outta your stomach and you will puke. So by chewing at least 20 bites, you break things apart, slows down your eating so you get fuller faster.

I thought dumping syndrome only happened to bypass patients. The surgeon I met explained that it happens when the person ate sugary food. Normally the sugar wood be diluted in the stomach but because a bypass patient no longer has the stomach valve, the contents go straight into the intestines. The sugar still needs to be diluted so water is pulled into the intestines and that's what causes the pain and sweating and diarrhea. But sleeve patients have the stomach valve so.... the surgeon said it wouldn't happen. I'm guessing it does happen though? Probably because the stomach is too small to dilute the sugar enough?

It's not as common with sleeve patients, but it does sometimes happen. I'm not sure the logistics of it but I know for sure that's what I experienced the first six months. It made eating out almost impossible because of all of the hidden fats and sugars. I know I responded the same way to the fats because i couldn't eat at my favorite Mexican restaurant at all because of the lard they cook with.

^{my doctor said the same thing, no dumping.}