what I know about dumping...

Ok someone asked about dumping and definitions of dumping...

Ok, let me tell you how I know what I know...

i'm just short of 4 years out..

I'm a nurse...and I spend a lot of time with certified bariactric nurses and ask a lot of detailed questions, and since I got a little bit of health care knowledge, I can put some of the info into everyday terms..

IN THE BEGINNING....sounds official...there were 2 kinds of dumping...

one was the ...Oh my dear lord, please let me die right now

and the second was...

ok, this is how I understand it...when you have RNY, they reroute the upper part of your intestine..so if you eat something with carbs...and it hit the part of your intestine that is still attached....that part of your intestine goes.."Oh my goodness...all you carbs should be digested by now...somebody is fallign down on the job...but that's ok...I'm gonna release a bunch of insuline and get you digested..."

now the intestine does not realize that there is really not that much carbs, but it figures...if it made it down to me..we gotta fix it...

so it....dumps...a bunch of insulin into your blood...your sugar drops..and you feel like poop...just as if a diabetic took too big a shot...but we can not lick on a sour ball, or drink a gulp of juice to make it better...in fact that would make it worse..so we just suffer..not so quietly..until it all wears off....

the best known aid if you are dumping is to get on the OH chat room and ***** and whine..and tell everyone on the World wide web how miserable you are...(at least that is what every one does) (giggle)

now the second type of dumping, is when you eat something that is a very strong concentration...like coffee...and it get dumped into the bowel...and the body does not like all this concentrated whatever..so it trys to dilute it by pulling water into the bowel...so you get the 

this was a lot more common in the early days..but doc have learned, by modifying how much they bypass..it relieves a lot of this...but not all

everyone is different

now in the past few years...Dumping has become a common word for anything that makes you fart, give you the ****s, make you feel queesy, makes you yak, makes you vomit...it's like the boogieman

Now I am the king or queen of dumping...I dump on everything...any dairy...except hard cheese, bread, crackers, ice cream, chocolate, chicken skin, fatty steak, salad dressing. oil, mayo, pecan, walnuts, unpurified air..and still I shovel the food in my cake hole..and I jsut plan on feeling like poop..

this is not to mention., the food has to be the right temp, not to hot not too cold, and tender...not over cooked, not dry on the edges, seasoned right..

and beleive it or not..the room as to be the right temo and have the right ventalation...and I have to be in a good chair...most of the time I stand up to eat..this is so FUBAR but this is my life...and for me anything is being better than being 375#


everyone is different, and some people never dump...and then there is me...

hope this gave you a little bit of knowledge...and maybe made you smile too

love y'all

Russ

So was it the fat? or the dipping sugar?

Feel for ya on today's episode. Don't know how you could have gotten out of that one without tasting. Don't want to take away any dignity from Mrs. Asian Man when she made such an effort. So you just showed me one more reason I'm glad I paid for the sleeve. No dumping in those awkward professional situations.

Hope you felt rapidly better!

I think it was a combo of all things..the shell was pure carbs fried in pure fat...

The most enjoyable lecture on dumping I've ever had. Thank you!!!! 

I'm still not going to test it... not so much because I'm afraid I will dump, but more afraid I won't. As long as I believe I would, it remains a useful tool to check my behavior.

Thank you for taking the time to explain this, and with visuals. LOL Woohooo.

I have experienced dumping from both sugar and fat. The sugar has only affected me once, but I have found that any kind of fat makes me sick as a dog......

Those of you who have not experienced this......you are lucky......hope you never do, it is not pleasant. It is particularly unpleasant if you are in a restaurant with your entire family and have it happen...lol

I feel for ya brother.  i don't dump on fat or coffee.......I dump on sugar and boy do I dump on sugar!  although with sugar alcohols, I find that when I'm bound up tighter than a wedge, some sugar free chocolate makes the best tasting laxative I have ever found....even better than taking stupid fiber supplements that don't work for me  LOL

Stipid fiber doesn't work for me either. I've had terrible problems with constipation since before surgery but really bad since and I drink all my water. It's been a tiny bit better since I've been cooking with a little olive oil but still....


I don't think I've had enough of the sugar alcohols to affect me but I may try it. Yesterday I started taking 100 mg of colace twice a day. Still not working but I'm going to give it another day to work. I've had hemorrhoid surgery in the past and I don't NEED this pain in the ass! Literally.  Some days I'm just "can't anything be simple... can't even **** anymore!"

LOL  I hear ya!  give the colace a little more time.......then go for the SF chocolate.  I usually eat a whole serving of it and then in a day or so, the dam will burst.....and I tell ya...this might be a bit TMI but keep a plunger close by!!!  LOL

I've dumped only once and that was from the sugar in barbaque sauce and that was enough! I live with my brother and he thought I was having a heart attack.

I dump on fat.. I haven't dumped on sugar because I don't try it...

I dump on SOME sugar free stuff. Learned the hard way..

But I REALLY dump on Peanut Butter (the natural no sugar added kind)

And what really sucks is on thing won't affect me one day but will the next. I have what I call "traveling" dumping.