Hey..

I would like to know what is the difference between Dumping and Vomiting? Is it considered the same thing? I Vomitted 2 times since surgery and that was from eating 2 darn fast and I really paid the cost for that. Now I take it slow... What about you have you dumped or vomitted. how many times and why? Mo

Hey Mo, I vomit when I eat too fast too or if I eat something that is too dry for me like fish or chicken without any kind of sauce on it. I dumped one time when I ate a calcium citrate chocolate chew that had too much sugar for me . The symptoms were different - I felt a tightness in my chest like I was having a heart attack, and I was sweating profusely and overall just felt really bad for about 15 minutes. Then it went away. Another time though (more recently) I ate a strawberry - well, 2 bites of it at least. After the first bite, my husband said that I had a really funny look on my face, and I said that it tasted really sweet. It was so good that I took another bite - wrong move!!! The dumping started, but then I threw up too. I felt better as soon as I threw up. So no more strawberries for me for a while. I hope that helped some . ~Robin

Thanks Robin, I haven't experienced the dumping yet then. I try to stay away from sweets. I want a McDonalds sweet so bad but I am staying away because I don't want to dump. I just get it unsweet and just add equeal. It is not the same but it will do.

Dumping can have literally dozens of symptoms... some people don't vomit with dumping, some do... some get diarrhea, some don't... some get the hypoglycemic rush (chest pain, flushing, dizzy, weak, sweaty, tired) and some don't... Dumping is a VERY individual experience.... the short short version is that vomiting from eating too fast is not the same as dumping... Dumping is not something that is the same from one patient to the next.... For me, sometimes it's just intestinal cramping.. pain in the pouch... and starts anytime from 30 mins after a meal, to several hours later... I get two kinds of symptoms with dumping... the hypoglycemic symptoms complete with needing to lay down for a nap... and just this nauseated "ache" when the food is sitting in my pouch and not going down... eventually that version of dumping does lead to vomiting So only you know if you got sick because you ate too fast, or because you chose the wrong things And I figured out I dump on anything more than 5 g sugars or 5 g fats.