Question:
I KEEP FEELING SPASM AND LIKE I HAVE A PULSE IN MY STOMACH

THIS ONLY HAPPENS AFTER I GET SICK AND DRY HEAVE. I HAVE BEEN GETTING SICK MORE LATELY SEEMS LIKE THE SAME FOOD I COULD EAT A MONTH AGO IS DISAGREEING WITH ME NOW. I AM 4 MONTHS POST OP OPEN RNY. THE GETTING SICK PART IS MY FAULT BECAUSE I SHOULDNT BE EATING THE FOODS IM EATING BUT IT SEEMS LIKE I AM CRAVING ALL FATNING FOODS. MY CONCERN IS THE PULSATION FEELING IN MY STOMACH HAS ANYONE HEARD OF ANYONE GETTING AN ABDOMINAL ANEURISM POST OP.    — kcraig (posted on February 11, 2001)

February 11, 2001
Call Your Doctor! You'll get answers here, but please don't depend on that, rather than be safe!
   — Dhelynn

February 11, 2001
KC, I had theat so severe that I wound up in the emergency room but it was within the first couple of months. But it drove me nutts. I called the doc and he kept up with me for a few weeks and finally it past. I did find however strang this may sound that coffee helped maybe it was the warmth I'm not sure. You really should check with your doc to be sure. Lay off those fats...lol
   — kyad7

February 11, 2001
I get the same thing...only after I overeat or eat too fast so I have assumed it is directly related to how my stomach is having to handle what I have put into it.
   — thpas

February 11, 2001
I have had the same thing. I'm about 11 months out, but the most time I feel it is when I'm at the gym. When I lay down to do the leg presses, I can feel it. Now I'm glad that other people have experienced it too. It doesn't hurt, it's not affiliated with sugar or dumping or anything else. Even my trainer didn't know what it was. Hmmmm, maybe I'll ask my doctor at my one year. Go figure. Jennifer
   — Jennifer F.

February 11, 2001
The sensation you are experiencing is the flutter of a muscle spasm, usually occuring after sustained tensing of the muscle. Remember the surgeon cut nerves and muscles then resewed it all back together. When things are a bit out of alignment, the rythm of the contraction and release is thrown off and the muscle is trying to get itself realigned. The same thing used to happen to me after I had my gall bladder out (the surgeon used a slightly off midline incision). I would have a great stomach crunching orgasm, then the flutter (in the beginning it felt like two puppies wrestling, then finally over time, slacked off to being like butterfly wings flapping) would start in my stomach. Hope this helps you to understand what the dynamics is...
   — merri B.