Question:
HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM TWO MONTHS OUT LAP GASTRIC BYPASS AND DOWN 50LBS FEELING GOOD BUT I CANT EAT ANYTHING I TRY TUNA CHICKEN EGG SALAD EVEN YOGURT. EVERYTHING MAKES ME SICK I GET SICK EVERYDAY I TOLD MY NUT AND DR. THEY SAID TO JUST EAT WHAT I CAN THEY DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND I AM IN THE BATHROOM EVERYDAY THROWING UP. I AM REALLY STARTING TO REGRET HAVING SURGERY I AM REALLY STARTING TO GET DEPRESSED OVER THIS I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO I AM TIRED OF BEING IN PAIN EVERYDAY. I DRINK WATER AND TAKE MY VITS WHEN I AM SUPPOSE TOO SO PLEASE LET KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS PROBLEM AND I HOPE IT GETS BETTER. THANKS IN ADVANCE I LOVE YOU GUYS ON HERE. THIS WEBSITE HAS REALLY HELPED ME GET THOUGH THIS SO FAR. — alicia128 (posted on August 25, 2008)
August 25, 2008
You have my total sympathy!!!! I am 5 years out and I can remember
throwing up every day for almost 6 months then one day it just stopped. It
will get better, hang in there.
— Carlyn M.
August 25, 2008
I too am 1 day short of my 2 month anniversary. I have a lot of the same
problems. However, don't get discouraged. I've been told to track the
things that tend to make us sick. How we eat and how much. With doing
this I am starting to see a pattern. We are starting to introduce things
into our bodies that we haven't seen in months. I've been told it takes
time for our bodies to adjust. Stick with me. We will get through this
and just look at it as a learning adventure.
— smd
August 25, 2008
I agree with tracking what it is and how much of it makes you sick. I am 9
weeks out I started doing that and even though I never throw up, I notice
the difference depending on what I eat. Im sure things will get better, all
this is still new to us, our bodies are adjusting. I know its hard not to
get discouraged but remember we spent many years training our bodies to
handle any kind of food out there, now we need to train it to eat right!
— Kimberlin Katayama
August 25, 2008
Aww, I didn't have a lot of vomiting...but I felt awful after eating more
times than not. It was depressing and I thought i'd never enjoy food again.
You have it worse, you poor thing...Here's my thoughts...I could not eat
eggs for a long time. I could not eat tuna without mayo and chicken is
just very dense. I'm thinking you might be experiencing the other side of
the problem and that is that you are particularly sensitive to fat as well
as sugar...Eggs have cholesterol...Try egg beaters or other egg substitute
(they are mostly egg while but you still get protein!) If you use mayo
with tuna that's probably the problem there. (Maybe a softer fish like
shrimp might be easier for you. Chicken is particularly hard to eat even
after some years post op. Add broths or pureed cooked veggies for a
moister meat. You also might be over eating by eating too fast? Try
making chicken soup (meats are moister) or crock pot meats get very tender
and moist too. EAt very slowly and stop eating as soon as you don't feel
hungry anymore and see if that helps. If not...You keep bugging your
surgeon until he looks further into things. But try these things for a few
days and see if that helps you. Some of it does just take time...Like for
me. I didn't fully enjoy eating until wel after a year or even
two...Now...OMIGOSH...I LOVE eating now...So it does get better...I hope
you feel better soon...Try low fat, low sugar for now and try listening
really close to your pouch and stopping sooner than you do now and see if
less might work better for you...chew your food really well too. Vomiting
means you lose more nutriton than you get any...so if you can eat less and
keep in in you...It's an improvement and you can then graduate to a little
more fat and dense meats later. Good luck!
— .Anita R.
August 25, 2008
I can't help but I am in the EXACT same position as you. I am 5 1/2 weeks
out and I can't tolerate anything. I get sick everyday because something
gets stuck or I can't tolerate something. So far I can't eat fish, eggs,
shrimp, chicken, oatmeal, several protein shakes and powders make me
nauseous, yogurt at all, tuna - I can eat mashed potatoes, beans, chili,
ground beef & cheese (some cheese - some don't work at all). That's it.
I'm getting depressed and tired too, because once I get sick - I throw up
daily - I can't eat or drink anything for hours while my stomach settles.
So there hasn't yet been a day where I've gotten in all my protein, liquids
or vitamins since I started soft foods. I really hope it gets better
because I'm extremely frustrated!
— k4rizz421
August 25, 2008
Look, try some slider food. I still can not eat eggs for breakfast and I
am 8 months out. I by Del Monte Canned "No Sugar added" (NSA)
peaches and pears. They slid through and I eat about 4 oz for breakfast.
If you can not handle that, then you might have some type of restriction.
You Surgeon can check for that in his office and they will just put you to
sleep for a few minutes like they do when you have a Colonistomy. They
check down you throut and see the opening in your pouch to your gut. If it
is too small they can strech it open again. It does not hurt but make sure
you can not eat slider food first. I don't eat it, but I heard Okra does
the same thing. I slides through the pouch. Don't overeat slider food.
It is just to get you over the problem in the mornings when you can not
keep food down.
— William (Bill) wmil
August 25, 2008
WOW!! I am sorta glad to know others have the same pucky trbl. Not that I
wish it on anyone! It seems that no matter what, or how slow orhow small
of a bite I take and then chew today something may be ok and tomarrow it
wont be. I have tried everything that has been mentioned. I make sure I
get my protein drinks in and at least 64 oz of water a day. I"m
almost two months out of Lap/Gastric bypass. I deal with maybe a little
diff than others as when I was having my kids I was pucky for nine months.
That ended well and I am sure when things straighten out I will look back
THEN and it wont bother me. I hope none of you let this get you down. New
babies dont eat everything well. SO, give our new baby pouches time to
adjust. I wish you all well. My Moms favorite thing was always to tell me
to have "patients".
— tootsie52
August 25, 2008
Not being able to eat anything is not normal. Throwing up everything is
not normal. I think that surgeons get so used to hearing about post op
patients throwing up they don't really listen. Hearing and really
listening are two completely different things.
Call your surgeon and/or nutritionist NOW and insist they listen and insist
they do something about the situation asap. There are simple studies to
diagnose a stricture (narrowing) of your esphagus and/or stoma which is
probably what the problem is. They can dilate it and perhaps you will need
this done more than once, however, you should be able to get food and
fluids down much better.
Remember, your doctor works for you, you pay his salary... please put him
to work. Be your own best advocate.
Good luck,
Dawn Vickers, RN, BLC, CLC
— DawnVic
August 25, 2008
My God! If you are suffering, and your doctor is not paying attention, it
is time for something called a SECOND OPINION! You are not tied to this
one doctor you know just because he did the surgery!
— cydthekid50
August 25, 2008
Hi Alicia,
All of the foods that you mentioned above are proteins. I had the same
problems keeping them down as you. It started happening one at a time at
about the third month. When I mentioned it to my surgeon he also said that
it was just something that we as RNY patients sometimes go through. Well
guess what? It was the beginning of a severe vitamin deficiency. So please
have your levels checked. If you want any more information on other
symptoms I was having go ahead and email me: [email protected]
— Charlene Lewis
August 25, 2008
I would definitely demand that your doctor look into things a little more
closely... I ended up in the hospital for 8 days with mild pancreatitis and
a large ulcer which was causing the nausea and the inability to keep food
down. I'm NOT saying this is what you may have, but I think you should
advocate for yourself and have things checked out. It's not ok to be in
such agony every day! Good luck to you.
— Melissa B.
August 26, 2008
Please discuss with your surgeon or PCP the possibility of a stricture.
— gonnadoit
August 26, 2008
I threw up everyday for about the first 4 or 5 months. I thought it would
never end and was very discouraged. I was very limited in what I could eat
(no meat of any kind, no fruits, no veggies, no lots of things!) and
wondered if I had made a mistake. But I was able to find enough foods that
did not make me sick so that I kept my protein up, including lots of beans,
cheese, protein supplements, and fish sticks (yes, fish sticks! get the
baked one's from Costco! They have much less breading, bigger pieces of
fish...I lived on them!) When I went to my surgeon for my 4 month follow up
I told him about this and he wanted to do an endoscopy to see if I had scar
tissue that was blocking things. Well, the last thing I wanted was another
procedure if I could avoid it! Plus, I had heard my same story from soooo
many people on these boards. And being that I was getting enough nutition
in, albeit limited, I deceided that I wanted to wait a while longer and see
if I could get past it on my own. And low and behold the vomiting stopped
within the next couple of weeks! Now, I still have an "issue"
every now and again (I'm 11 months out), but that is usually brought on if
I try something new that doesn't agree with me, or if I lose my head and
eat too fast! ... So, hang in there....it DOES get better.
— Deni
August 26, 2008
Hello
Your story sounds so familiar. I had the RNY 5mos ago and have lost about
75 lbs. There was a period that I could not keep anything down, and felt
like i had made a tremendous mistake. I was persist with my doctor that
something was wrong, he did an endoscopy and discovered that I had an ulcer
and that my opening was to restrictive.
He loosen that up and now I take a priolosec every day and things have been
GREAT. Talk to your doctor about that best of luck
Charnita.
— cbraxton
August 26, 2008
I'm sorry you are feeling like this but I can completely understand. I am a
little more than a month out and have lost 47lbs but part of me wonders if
it is not because I can't eat anything. I either don't feel like I can eat
anything or when I do eat I can not keep it down. I am taking small bites,
chewing until mush, and not drinking with my meals so I don't think I am
doing anything wrong. I'm sure this will pass just like everything else. If
I find any information about how to deal with this problem better I will
make sure to let you know. Good luck on your journey and if you need a new
friend I am always here.
Thanks, Jackie
— RN2B2009
August 26, 2008
I would suggest writing down anything and everything that goes into your
mouth (including liquids), how much, what time of day, as well as recording
any nausea/vomiting you have. It may help you see patterns and help you
figure out whats going on. It will also give you something to take to the
doctor/nutritionist that will help them understand the problem better. Are
there any foods you can eat? Liquids? Puree? You can also ask your doctor
about medicine for nausea/vomiting if you need it. Make sure you rinse
your mouth really well after throwing up as it can destroy your teeth.
Good luck!
— mrsidknee
August 26, 2008
Tracking your food could help. I'm six months out and still can't eat
tuna. Can eat chicken only if it's in some kind of sauce (lofat of
course). Can't eat chicken salad because can't handle the mayo anymore. A
lot of people have trouble with dairy because of the carbs - have you tried
the no sugar added yogurt? soy yogurt? lo sugar soy milk? I don't mean
to sound like this is easy, cause it's not, and I really sympathize,
throwing up every day must be awful. At 2 months out I was still on pureed
foods, made my own pureed foods because the baby food is mostly carbs and
little protein. Try pureeing some roast beef with beef broth and throw in
some cooked veggies. I've been slower than most in being able to add new
foods and more textures, and it's frustrating, but I am slowly improving.
At 2-3 months I started with chunky soups, i'd eat the chunks of nice soft
meat and veggies and toss the broth, can't eat and drink at the same time.
Good luck to you
— Susan C.
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