Food / drink pass through awfully fast! Post -RNY

Does anyone else post-rny do this? 

I can drink something very warm, and it rushes through so fast that it is still hot when it hits my guts at belly-button level. 

TMI alert: If I eat something that doesn't agree with me, it won't come back up no matter how soon I get sick. It's like once it's in, that's it - it's mine. 

Do  any of the rest of you do this? Is it normal? I've wondered if this has something to do with never reaching goal or getting really hungry between breakfast and lunch. 

I'm still doing okay, I guess, in that I don't have regain issues, but still. 

Anybody?? 

Have you been scoped to see if your pouch opening it too large? It sounds like the hole at the bottom of the pouch might be too big. I don't have liquids go through that fast, in fact, I can only swallow 3 mouthfuls of water and then I have to wait for about 5 minutes to have room for another swallow. I know this because sometimes I get that 4th swig in my mouth and have to hold it in my cheeks until there's room.

Thanks for replying. I was starting to wonder if I was ever going to get an answer. :)

No, I haven't been scoped, but then again, I haven't seen my surgeon since he did my RNY. He just doesn't do any kind of follow-up support that I am aware of. He just makes some modifications and for the most part that's all.

I saw where this thread had a good number of views: how about it?

Where would you put yourself - in with the its-down-then-it's-gone category or the have-to-wait-because-it-takes-a-while group? C'mon... sharing is good!! :)

I can take a good sized gulp of liquid and feel the cold/heat as it goes into the intestines BUT there is also a limit to how much I can drink before it starts to "back up" (but it isn't a 5 minute wait before I can drink more... it's more like  2 or 3 minute wait)... so really, I fall into BOTH categories.

Sorry, I know that probably isn't very helpful! 

Lora

Knowing what is normal for other people is always helpful, especially as there is no local support group for me. :) 

 

Thanks! 

 

Hi Mary, I remember reading a lot about your symptoms when researching RNY surgery years ago, there was also a lot of discussion on the boards here years ago about Enlargement of the Stoma. Your symptoms do correlate with the condition.

Can you contact your surgeon's office or find another surgeon that would be willing to just check to see if that is what is going on?

When you eat do you feel full? Do you fill up fast or does it take you awhile to fill up on denser food (meat, oatmeal, cottage cheese?)

Hi!

I literally have not seen my surgeon since the day he performed my surgery. His partner visited me once while I was still in the hospital, and every follow-up appointment that I had was scheduled with the nurse practitioner - even when I specifically asked for the doc because of questions the NP couldn't answer. There is another doctor that I might can see, but there is a pretty good list of requirements that I will have to take care of first (transfer records, sign a release, etc etc).

The weirdest thing about this is that sometimes it seems like I can't eat much of anything, and other times I don't feel full fast enough. If it's dense, it doesn't take long. 

I can eat a Yoplait Lite and I'm fine, If I eat two of them, like if I get too hungry and lose my mind, I get sick and feel too full.  My biggest problem is that I get hungry again too soon. 

I can drink most of a bottle of water just about as fast as my kid can (she's a teenager).  Five or ten minutes and it's gone - not a lot of having to pause and wait as far as that goes. 

I guess I really do need to see a doc, but I just hate to as this has been the summer of medical bills, and we haven't caught up. 

Thanks for taking the time to reply! :) 

 

Mary,
Two yogurts would make me sick too. Even the lowest carb ones have around 12-14 grams, so two could be as high as 28 or more. Also, I've developed a touch of lactose intolerance so that would be too much milk product for me. And yogurt is a "slider" food, it will go through the stoma rather quickly, which is why you aren't feeling full for long.

I make sure I eat denser protiens with each meal, like solid cheeses, cottage cheese, a protein bar, meats. If I have peanut butter (another food I have to be careful with) I dip carrot sticks in it and eat it that way.

Remember the rule - protein first, then you can have the other stuff if there's room.

Yogurt is a treat, and it only comes after the protein. I love very lean cuts of meat, but I can't do protein bars and won't do peanut butter.The protein bars make me sick, and for me, there are better ways to get my protein without all that fat. (I know a lot of people enjoy it in moderation, but I look at it and my behind gets wider - LOL) 

My main concern about things going through so quickly isn't things like yogurt or soup - it's a regular dinner with something lean and a few veggies that is immediately gone. It just seems like it goes too fast. 

 

 

I can drink a 20oz bottle of water in less than 5 min. I can now gulp water with the best of them (more than I ever could PRE-SURGERY!). Of course I'm like a kid that has to pee every 20 minutes too. I only drink water though, or on very rare occasions - juice (as a treat). Anything with CO2 - more than one sip and i'm dying.

Eating - in 20 minutes I'm in the bathroom, it's like a fast track. I always wait 30 minutes after eating to drink more than one or two sips of water but it still goes through me NASCAR style. I'm hungry every 3 or 4 hours it seems. I try to "eat" water when I'm hungry. I eat tons of ice so I feel like I'm eatting something. As for sugar carbs - mine is about 25g in less than 10 minutes before I'm curled up in my 'mini-coma' as I call it. As for getting stuck - the first two years I had a similar problem, sometimes it took hours to come up - including hanging upside down on the bed. Now it's instant eject - LOL.