Question:
When will you dump if you are going to? Will it be immediately or and hour later?

   — davonjack (posted on February 25, 2010)

February 25, 2010
When I dumped it was right away. The people I have spoken to also have dumped right away.
   — jackielr

February 25, 2010
If you're going to dump, it's generally pretty quickly (within half an hour). But, I've known people who've dumped up to two hours after eating something they shouldn't. So, you never can be quite sure. It's what keeps me "honest".
   — Erica Alikchihoo

February 25, 2010
Hi, five years of dumping I consider myself an expert. : ), most of the time you dump within 20 minutes of eating the offending food. Mostly sugar, but food high in fat can do it too as well as eating too fast. I occasionally dump after an hour or two after eating, doesn't happen often, but they are usually worse and last longer. I'm kind of glad I dump, it reminds me to not eat that stuff and it keeps me thin. It appears I have a short memory.
   — smparker2

February 25, 2010
I am one and half years out. I did not start dumping till about a year after my surgery. Dr. said that is quite unusualy. Thought I was having a heart attack or something. Sweats, dizzy, sick to my stomach and sometimes diarrhea. Usually happens in about 30 minutes, although sometimes longer. It is not that I am intentionally eating the wrong things, it makes me aware that this food is not going to work for me anymore. I now carry some hard candy with me all the time because my blood sugar also decides to take a dip at times.
   — sandorah

February 25, 2010
I don't know if I'm one of the lucky ones in that I don't dump. In the year since my RNY I have dumped once and it was on a cruise when I drank two pina coladas back to back. Looking back at it I think the two contained somewhere in the neighborhood of over 2200 calories and most of that was sugar. So I guess technically I do dump it just takes a massive amount of sugar to trigger it. Each of us has had the same surgery but each of us is unique in how our body responds!
   — rkurquhart

February 26, 2010
It usually hits me about 2.5 hours after I eat something and it is when I least expect it, like when I am shopping. Yuck!
   — Dawn A.

February 27, 2010
I normally dump with in 1/2 hour to and hour within eating something that does not agree with me. I am very cautious of what I put in my mouth, because dumping is such an unpleasant experience. I have had to go to the hospital onced because I knew I was dying.
   — cocodrop7