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 am 9 months post op and have passed 11 stones since my surgery. One of the main reasons I had the RNY surgery was so I could get the lithotripsy. I was too big for it to be effective. I am in the process of trying to get in to have them treated. I am a rare case where I have one large stone in the one kidney and the other is full of stones! I have lost too much weight too quickly and that made my stones even worse. You are going to need to see a urologist but here is a key point that I want to make. Make sure the urologist either knows about gastric bypass surgery and our special needs and restrictions. Or make sure he is willing to contact your bariatric surgeon for consults if he is not sure. One of the big problems is to get the proper amount of water into our systems.

Also another thing to consider is to have them request the tests for them to determine what type of stone you are most likely producing. Once you know that you can visit your baratric dietician and see about adjusting your diet in slight ways to help prevent the forming of new stones. 

I have passed in total 17 stones in the past 1.5 years and trust me you do not want to deal with these at all. So I would suggest making sure you have doctors that are either willing to talk to each other or willing to look into your specific case rather then one that works more like trying to find a cookie cutter treatment for you.

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...

 Hey Jules,


I sent you a private message- Glad you went to Cleveland. I hope that you get some resolution to your issues.

Amy H

Here is my latest scoop:
I am extremely happy with our decision to go to CCF (Cleveland Clinic Foundation).  I feel like we made more progress in 5 days than we did in two years here.  I finished the trial of the spinal cord stimulator, and I am going to have the permanent one implanted.  It improved my chronic abdominal pain by about 80%, it did not help with digestion or the pain and nausea that comes with eating, so I still have my PICC line, but I am working with a local surgeon to either get a peg tube in my stomach, or a gastric pacemaker.  If there is anyone out there that has either one of these and could offer some feedback, I would really appreciate it.  The PICC is just a systemic infection waiting to happen, and I have developed a severe hatred for it and the nightly TPN.  I am scheduled to head back to CCF the end of July.  I will post another update after that.