Need a Nurse- Question

Ok be kind... Im a self medicator... yea yea well anyway. I drank some grape juice at school today and had been sipping on Sweet Tea. apparently overdoing the sugar and started dumping. I went to lay down in the nurse station... and she said she has similar problems with her stomach convulsing ..that she takes Nitroglycerine (see link) that her doc said it can help relax the stomach spasms... and that it can't hurt her...soooo I took one forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-59589 to relax the my dumping. I was curled up in a ball and pain in the chest was pretty bad. BTW it was dumping not a heart attach. (This is only my second situation of dumping at school in 2yrs so it doesn't happen to me often) Took the little pill under my tongue - dang that sucker burned alittle and ...dang if almost instantly pressure lifted and within 3-4minutes I sat up and told her THANK YOU and walked back to class. Never gotten over dumping so fast in my life. So the question is. errr can Nitroglycerine hurt our tummies. I'll be seeing my doc Monday and promise to fess up and ask him but.. well just curious... surely if I had a heart condition and really needed one to help my heart it woulda been ok..sooo?? what about a WLS tummy ??? any nurses around? It was awesome how fast it relaxed the pain in my dumping spell. hmmm what ya think? be kind - I bruise easy!

Hey Deb--you know I love ya and I am certainly not a nurse--but I think it is a wacko idea. Totally my unprofessional point of view. I don't even know what nitro does--but I would be worried about my heart--not my stomach.

rofl I love u too... im hoping one day to meet you in real time... you are just such a wonderful lady... DID you know ... not offically but your the TOP poster in this website with over 400 posts... WOW what support ..what a wonderful lady you are... and I count myself lucky having you as a support partner... love ya girl... and spank me if I do this again.. k? lol deb

You are too funny! Aren't you glad you asked? LOL! See what happens when you are laid up for a week? You get to be "the top poster" ROFL. You can just call me the Tooter of the Grads board. LOL I have to be on the other side of FL tomorrow at 7:30am. I am really hoping my drains are gonna come out!--and then they tell me that I have to be even more inactive--how that is possible I really don't know. Stay safe and dry.

Nitro is a first-class vasodilator. It is the first line of defense against anigna. The one time I took one was when I thought I was having chest pain, it reduced my BP into the 90/55 range, gave me the headache of my life and left me laying on the floor of my cubicle, so dizzy that I could not standm up. If I ever have chest pain, it better be much worse than any dumping syndrome can muster before I would ever take one of those suckers again. Nowhere Man/PH/Jay

I am a nurse and you SHOULD NOT be taking Nitro for dumping. It can kill you. All the things JAY mentioned in his post can happen to you. One thing for sure, it will bottom your blood pressure out unless you truly are having a heart attack. It is very dangerous stuff for people tht misuse it.

hangs head... Yes ma'am... and I promise to fess up to the doctor what I did.... thanks for the info. It really did make me feel better but I wont do it again unless he said it was ok... thank you *hugs* deb

I promise not to holler at you for taking the med and I won't even comment on what I think about someone GIVING it to you in the first place - if you promise not to ever do that again! (Gives slap on wrist) Jan 240/126/115 (at goal size)

Yes ma'am.. promise and pinky swear... aww thanks for the concern and the slap on the wrist LOL deb

I am an RN and I m horrrified to say the least. No good nurse gives out meds like that (nitro is a very powerful heart drug) with out a doctors order, Rx in hand. What if you had a serious reaction? she could have, and likely would have lost her license. This is called practicing medicine with out a license) I'll be kind to you and just say never do it again. As to the nurse, she needs to be reported to the department of professional regulation in your state. she was unsafe.