mausea final answer

Ok was just diagnosed finally with my true problem! Gastroparesi. If you look it up it causes almost exactly everyone of my symptoms!

One day at a time I currently am being kept alive by TPN I am on day 21 in the hospital. They have me on tpn round the clock and phenegran every 4 hrs.,heprin 3 times a day. I am getting very homesick and miss my husband and my sister and my dog and my parrots. I want to go home but I know that is wishful thinking!

I have found my problem and now my doctor who has seen this many many times over the years because of her close proximety to a weight loss surgeon in texas who i guess was doing some bad things.

She has claimed to help. alot of people with this problem  and has told me this could go on for months or years. she is going to try to get the nausea under control with round clock pheneran then try merinol-pot in a capsule. she said iit helps  nausea and  i suppose to make me hungry. which it has been 6 months going on 7 months before I have felt huger...

So you are saying that the doctor said you have this because of the surgery?  Gastroparesis is a very common problem and it is found mostly in diabetics.  It is actually also called Delayed Gastric Emptying and since the food stays in the digestive tract too long, it causes the nausea.  But with WLS, our foods go through our systems rather quickly - so it seems odd that it would be due to the surgery.  Are you diabetic?  Is it possible that it is just coincidence that you got it due to your diabetes and it just happened to turn up after your surgery?

I have had it for many years even before I was diabetic.  they never figured out why I had it.

I looked this up out of curiosity and this is what the Mayo Clinic website has to say about causes of this problem "The vagus nerve can be damaged by diseases, such as diabetes, or by surgery to the stomach or small intestine."  Though they are not specific as to the type of surgery...WLS qualifies as surgery to the stomach and could be a cause.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gastroparesis/DS00612/DSECTION=causes

That is very interesting, I developed mine after having lap Nissan Fundoplication which is surgery to correct acid reflux - they take the top of the stomach and wrap it around the esophagus to make a tighter sphincter to stop the acid from coming back up. I never realized that the surgery caused it, I just knew it happened after the fact.

We are positive that is what this is, the only stomach issues I had before my surgery was heartburn. I have been operated on twice. They believe my vargus nerve has been cut .. we dont know yet and it will be a few months before  we find out!

Hi, I'm glad you found the answer! I'm about to post an update to my blog, but if you want to check it out, I have had very similar issues over the last two years.  I am about to start on a journey to finding out if I am a candidate for a gastric pacemaker, and there are probably several doctors in the country that do it, but according to Cleveland Clinic, there is one in Mississippi that has pioneered it, and he is one of the few (maybe the only one) who has a test that is done by endoscopy, to measure the electrical stimulation/function of your stomach/nerves, and can determine if you would benefit from the gastric pacemaker.  I know there are doctors that have mixed feelings about it, for my particular case, they have recommended the pacemaker, or a Jejunostomy feeding tube, for me the tube is the LAST resort.  My life is so abnormal right now, so the more normal, the better.  I just had a spinal cord stimulator implanted for the constant abdominal pain I have.  I highly recommend Cleveland Clinic, or any institution on their same level, they are awesome!  I hope you get out of the hospital soon, and be well no matter what!
Hugs!

GL hope things improve for you.  I understand complications been there many times but mine still unlnown itiology and have had nuclear tests before and seems to act like pseudo blockage,  I am that less than 1 percent.  Yes gastrparesis can occur with any abdominable surgery, infection, injury, underlying illness, comorbid factors and also just plain not knowing,

Other possible is TB of the intestine, LE lymphedema of intestine, protein losing enteropathy, and numerous others not thought of normally and at times may never know cause but treatments can be sone even including a intestinal pacemaker to help food through intestine like a pacemakers for the heart but for stomach.