Has anyone dumped yet?

Hi Julie I have had a 'true' dumping experience. I ate about 4 bites of a premade ham salad. I truly thought I was going to die that night. My pouch cramped, I puked for about and hour and a half. I broke out in a sweat and my chest hurt so bad. I could hear my heart beating in my ears. I also felt like my BP was really high. I was afraid to sleep that night, knowing I was going to die. I cried and prayed. I will never eat ham salad again. No sugars.... but maybe too high in fat...? I'm not sure but it was really rough. I am a label reader and try to be SO careful. And I said pre surgery that I wasn't going to dump... EVER... and my buddies at my support group chuckled, now I know why.

OH man! That's rough! That's the kind of dumping that I'm expecting, too. I hope I never experience it, but like you, I'm thinking that might be very naive of me.... Julie

I have dumped many times.....most of them due to being on enteral feedings for a month. The original formula they had me on was high glucose...and made me very ill. I would do the tube feeding and then within 15 mins or so I would break out in a sweat, feel light headed, my heart would pound and I would get extremely weak and nauseaed and HAVE to lay down. Luckily since I have been off tube feedings now for a month and a half I havent had a "full dumping episode" only extreme nausea and sweats. Dawn

I've dumped many times. I'm extremely senstivie. Since surgery, I've discovered, I'm allergic to eggs and I'm lactose intolerant. So, those were both HUGE sources of dumping that, at first, totally baffled me. Even though it's no fun, dumping is your friend.