well 2 months out new pics soon!! but its hard!
so first off I am about 2 months out and 50 lbs down...pretty great for me!! but its been very hard i cant ge****er or food down so well so ive been into the hospital 3 times for iv treatments for dehydration,...every minute im spitting up very thick crap and dry heaving alot...its been bad..im doing an endoscopy this tuesday....i wonder if anyone here has had the same problem and if the endoscopy helped it?? im glad to be back on here though my lap tops been down.. so hello everyone!!
Good luck with your endoscopy! I hope that helps them figure out what is giving you such a hard time. I wish I could say I'd been through what you're going through, but I was probably the exact opposite. You know the saying "sip, sip, sip"? Well, I never even had to sip. The first day they let me have liquids in the recovery room I gulped it right down. I thought the nurse was going to freak, but everything was fine.
Let us know what they find!
My surgery was in Nov 05, and I had similar problems that started about a month post-op. . .nausea, dizziness, couldn't keep anything down (food or water). I had an endoscope, a barium swallow, and finally a second surgery at the end of January 06. . .there was no improvement, and no cause could be determined. I was told repeatedly that 10% of RNY patients have terrible bouts with this as our bodies adjust, sometimes lasting for 4-6 months - which, of course, made me want to throw in the towel and end it all (I remember thinking, "I'm going to die because of this, and I can't even eat to comfort myself!?!?!?!").
And then, one morning in early February, I woke up and the nausea and vomiting were gone. Just like that, everything felt normal. . . I was very, very careful with everything I ate or drank for several months afterwards (well, I still am).
A big part of it is the dehydration, dehydration begets dehydration: not drinking makes you feel that much worse, which makes you not want to drink even more. . .
I promise, you will get through this.
thanks guys that really helps to know im not the only one with the problem here... yeah the doctor said it may be a stricture... he thinks hell beable to go in and stretch through scar tissue if its there or stretch my esophygus i dont know it seems like he really isnt all that sure about whats going on...all i can do is hope for the best right! thank you all!