My first illness since my wls.....blahhhh

Bless your heart!  It sounds like you have a good old fashioned virus!

I vomit (basically just gag up whatever is irritating my stomach) and I dry heave occasionally....sometimes just from my chewable vitamins.  Luckily, I RARELY have ever gotten viruses.....If I do get them it usually involves diarhea....not vomiting (I don't know if that's better or worse!)

Feel Better!!!

I also have not thrown up since surgery - I've wanted to, but didn't and couldn't.  Just foamies and spit is the best I could do.  Not because I was sick, but because I ate too much or too fast.

I had surgery 10/08 and JUST got sick for the first time this year - and it happened twice!  Wasn't a stomach bug though.

There was a study done about D and how it kept people from getting sick - you know, I do believe it now.  I was taking 5K of Dry D3 every day - my D was high so I cut it down to 50K once a week... and forgot it some weeks.  Then I got sick. 

I've reintroduced the 5K/daily and cut out the 50K.  I'm monitoring my sicky factor to see when I get sick again and if there is any correlation.

Not being able to actually vomit is common after RNY I know.  I usually can only get up foam or spit, unless I have eaten something within the last 5 minutes or so...otherwise it isn't coming out no matter how much I want it out (like one bite too much and it hurts).  I hate to vomit, I still hate the motions of it--but usually even after the foamies I start to feel better.  The only time I actually vomited was when my husband made me protein shakes and made me take MOM one day...The MOM actually went over the sink and all over the curtains.  Ewww.  LOL  I tried to tell him it wouldn't stay but he insisted. 
Guess I was right.

I'm a sleevie, and I've had two experiences now that prove....
I can't vomit either. 

seems like I don't have enough air or water or something to give my stomach contents the force to fountain out.  It come out more like toothpaste out of the tube.  But I mean, how much momentum can one have to puke 2 oz out of a tube the size of a sharpie.

Thinking of how it came out, I am reminded of owl regurgitation pellets.

seriously folks. owl puke.

tracey