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I could do with some advise from somebody more experienced than I am yet. Decided to try a couple of fried eggs on a piece of toast for lunch. Used a skillet which has been seasoned and which released some of the vegetable oil during the cooking process so they were fairly greasy. Never crossed my mind that might cause a problem. They didn’t digest well anyway but after a couple of hours felt a bit nauseous and very tired, and started sweating. And then, well just say I couldn’t get to the loo fast enough. And repeat 4 more times since. Not pleasant and I had no control. Feel delicate but much improved now.

Have I experienced dumping syndrome or is this just my body telling me it does like fried food?

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I would say so not very nice just let your stomach settle and have Fluid , yoghurt and stuff like that if I have eggs I either poach , boil or scramble them if your going to scramble them try cottage cheese instead of milk its lovely I had laxatives which did this to me hope you feel better soon

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8 hours ago, Jue said:

I would say so not very nice just let your stomach settle and have Fluid , yoghurt and stuff like that if I have eggs I either poach , boil or scramble them if your going to scramble them try cottage cheese instead of milk its lovely I had laxatives which did this to me hope you feel better soon

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Thanks Jue. Completely blindsided me.

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13 hours ago, Paul W said:

I could do with some advise from somebody more experienced than I am yet. Decided to try a couple of fried eggs on a piece of toast for lunch. Used a skillet which has been seasoned and which released some of the vegetable oil during the cooking process so they were fairly greasy. Never crossed my mind that might cause a problem. They didn’t digest well anyway but after a couple of hours felt a bit nauseous and very tired, and started sweating. And then, well just say I couldn’t get to the loo fast enough. And repeat 4 more times since. Not pleasant and I had no control. Feel delicate but much improved now.

Have I experienced dumping syndrome or is this just my body telling me it does like fried food?

It sound very much like Dumping Syndrome. It may be the oiliness, the bread, the amount of food or the eggs. All are symptomatic. Eggs, chicken, fats, sugar and bread are particularly difficult for lots of bariatric patients

Even now I can not eat bread unless it is toasted so crispy that it snaps. Its all about trial and error, you are early out and I dont know what regime you have been given but at 5 weeks out I was still on soft foods. Even now I can only eat one egg for a meal.

Until your new tummy heals, you wont have any feelings of fullness. At your stage my nose would run or I would sneeze and that was my cue to stop eating. Its all a learning curve and its not easy.

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7 hours ago, summerseeker said:

Thank you.

I’m meant to be on soft food but still blending stuff as I just feel too uncomfortable otherwise. A couple of small teaspoons of something like fish in parsley sauce and smash potato and I can feel indigestion coming on.

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It sound very much like Dumping Syndrome. It may be the oiliness, the bread, the amount of food or the eggs. All are symptomatic. eggs, chicken, fats, sugar and bread are particularly difficult for lots of bariatric patients

Even now I can not eat bread unless it is toasted so crispy that it snaps. Its all about trial and error, you are early out and I dont know what regime you have been given but at 5 weeks out I was still on soft foods. Even now I can only eat one egg for a meal.

Until your new tummy heals, you wont have any feelings of fullness. At your stage my nose would run or I would sneeze and that was my cue to stop eating. Its all a learning curve and its not easy.

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Apologise summerseeker. Getting in a dreadful muddle trying to quote your reply to me and can’t seem to amend or delete my post

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Paul have a look on Pintrest and type biatric stages and it will give you recipes and the stages of what you should be having hope your feeling better today

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