Can't vomit....

Let me start this by saying that before surgery I was a "puker".  If I smelled vomit or heard someone vomit, or smelled something gross I would vomit.  Everything made me vomit.  My husband said I was a professional.  

Since surgery though, there have been two times that I either ate too much or ate the wrong thing and got really sick to my stomach, but I could not vomit, no matter how hard I tried (I really wanted to get it out of my stomach).  I put my finger in my throat and everything, but nothing, just dry heaves.   Anyone else experience this?

when the food leaves the pouch - there is nothing to come up.  so in that sense - we can't vomit., Once Things get stuck and things will be in your pouch - yo may find out that you still can vomit.

I hate dry heaves...  

Try to walk it off.  I wish I had better advice. I have only thrown up like two times since surgery. I know there really isn't anything there so I try to relax walk it off or lay down and wait for it to pass. 

Nothing in the pouch means not puking.  It sucks and I thank goodness I'm not a puker. I wasn't before and I'm not now.  I hate it.

I guess I never considered that maybe the food was already out of my stomach.  That would explain why nothing would come out.  I am glad this has only happened twice :)

Don't feel bad I cannot vomit either :(

I have had this exact same experience!  Yes I was professional puker too, not in a bulimic way but it started when I was pregnant where a smell could just bring it on.  Anyway since surgery I have had a handful of times where something I ate made me so sick I too was putting my finger in my throat to bring it up and relieve my pain but nothing ever happens.  I am a year out and I am unable to, ever.  Like another poster mentioned walking it off really helps me when I am feeling sick.

I had a band before the bypass so I was a professional puker. I could puke on command lol. I also could do it silently. Ugh the horrible band days. Anyways I too have experienced the same thing and it's awful! So what happens when we actually get the flu? Body wants to expel the bad stuff and it won't stop! This is scary to me. I guess I'll just keep that anti nausea stuff around. Thanks for posting about this. :)

Yw.  I'm glad I'm not the only one! 

I know the feeling you are talking about a little too well! I am still learning to slow down and take small bites but there have been a quite a few times I would eat something and just know that the moment I swallowed it, I was about to experience about 1/2 an hour of serious discomfort. I find that lying down immediately helps relieve some of the pain, but for times where I felt like it was coming up, I never had that gagging or heaving reflex but if I just leaned over the food would come up on it's own. Like baby regurgitation, just keep burping and spitting it out. Gross. I have been really working on slowing down and listening to my body.