Illness Question

This is gonna sound SO dumb but...

Do you still get a "stomach" bug after RNY? I'm asking because I have been queasy and nauseous for like 4-5 days now. I saw my PCP today and he said I have a stomach bug thats been going around. But nothing is coming out. He gave me something for nausea which isn't working. My intestines feel like someone double knotted them. This totally sucks! I have no other symptoms than this queasy belly :(

(and of course the topic of pregnancy had to come up. I swere they need to right that down somewhere.......NO chance of pregnancy)

Doctors and nurses need to write a LOT more stuff down.  I still remember a time I went into my college health services with strep throat, went in to see the nurse and she told me to drop my pants.

All I could say was that the swelling was a little higher.

hey hon!!!!  are you still taking ant-acids?  If not, start taking them again.  I still take pepcid once a day and that cuts down on the nausea down there.......you don't wanna have stomach acid racing into your intestines.  It's quite painful and it will make you awful sick.  Give that a try....otherwise, I'd talk to your surgeon.

I would talk to your surgeon. It's rare but occasionally people who have lost a lot of weight which you have can sometimes get torsion or twists in the bowel. These can be partial which can cause nausea and vomiting and/or depending on where the twist is, lack of bowel movements. The pain can be mild to severe. This is because until after 2-3 years postop and everything realigns, there tends to be more room inside the gut area (since you've lost a lot of intra-abdominal fat around your organs) and the bowel and move around more. This just happended to a friend of mine and she's 2 years out and ended up with a complete bowel obstruction because she went for a couple of months with a partial and ignored it. I don't want to be an alarmist but these are long-range complications we need to consider as bariatric patients.

Best of health and well wishes to you! 

Yup, we can still get the bug. I have heard it's worse after surgery but I don't know.

I'm not gonna be much help.. Yes you can get the bug (I've had it twice and it sucks) I also get quesy from and ulcer (which the pepcid helps) and some days I just feel like crap because food just isn't working and I need to stick to protein drinks.

BUT it can also have to do with worse ailments. I would talk to your surgeorn or bariatric specialist. PCP don't always know or take into concideration the extra risk we are at.

Good luck!