How many sugars for you??

aspan
on 4/16/11 12:43 pm
that's exactly what happens to me when I dump..I know when it first happened to me I didn't know what it was either...but like you said, my heart starts racing, the room starts spinning, and I just feel awful! 
HW: 260? SW: 242 Surgeons GW: 150 First GW: 140 Second GW: 130 CW: 122      
rbb825
on 4/16/11 3:19 pm - Suffern, NY
I went 2 years without what I call dumping.  Then I had major complications as most of you know - bowel obstruction, perforated colon causing me to become septic and needed an iliostomy.  Had the iliostomy reversed in February.  All in all I had 4 surgeries for all this and I am lucky to be alive.  The weird part and my surgeon says it makes no sense but now if I eat any type of sugar and high fat foods, I now dump by my standards.  I don't get dizzy or lightheaded.  The only thing that happens to me is horrendous diarhea - it litterly jumps dumps out of me.  It is really gross, foul smelling and immense amounts.

I am having trouble with diarhea other times of the day also, sometimes it is just pure liquid so my surgeon is testing me for C-Diff, I have to give a stool sample this week.  I do hope this is the problem, so I can just take some flagyl and it will clear up my problem.  It just seems that I have diarhea all day long.  It makes it very difficult to leave the house or go anywhere that doesn't have a bathroom.  I have also become lactose intolerant since these surgeries, which again she said shouldn't have happened.  I take tons of lactaid which helps sometimes and not others.  There is no rhyme or reason when I get the runs.

 

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