Question:
did i dump?
i had 2-3 tbsps of honey roasted crunchy peanut butter and about 2 oz of milk and went to bed at 9:30 last night and at 1 am i woke up shaky and my heart was pounding and i had about 5 trips to the bathroom with diareah, no cramps though, and i get cold then feel hot and had clammy hands, did i dump or what? its lasted till about 4:30 am. now today i feel kinda drained, please help, cause i will not eat that again. shelly — shellypoe (posted on November 6, 2003)
November 6, 2003
The very same thing happened to me last night. I ate a few peanuts, they
tasted sweet. Nutritional info on package said said Sugar 0grms, so thats
why ate them. I fell asleep and woke up with the same feelings you
describe. It was awful!! This morning I looked at the peanut package
better and in tiny print I found the ingredient list...first was peanuts
followed by corn syrup then sugar. I should have spit them out!! Now I
know that I am a dumper. Open RNY July 11, 2003 -95 lbs.
— Lois B.
November 6, 2003
Sounds exactly like dumping to me. After about 5 months post, I started
eating reduced fat peanutbutter on toast. Not all the time, but
occassionally, I get really shaky and sometimes with the bathroom trips.
Usually for me, this type of instance happens with the higher fat foods,
not necessarily the higher sugar foods.
— emilyfink
November 6, 2003
Shelly,
It does sound like it. Here's a good description from Medical-Surgical
Nursing, Critical Thinking in Client Care, by P. LeMone and K. Burke,
Published by Addison-Wesley, (copyright 1996):
When the pylorus (normal point of connection between the stomach and small
intestine) has been bypassed, undigested food may rapidly enter the
jejunum. Water is pulled into the intestine (from the surrounding blood
vessels and tissues) resulting in a decrease in blood volume and intestinal
dilation. Peristalsis (the movements of the intestine to propel food
further down the tract) is stimulated resulting in nausea, vomiting,
epigastric pain, abdominal cramping, gurgling sounds, and diarrhea.
Decreased blood volume results in a rapid heart rate, low blood pressure
when you go from sitting or lying down to standing up, dizziness, flushing,
and breaking out in a sweat. In addition, the entry of this undigested food
into the jejunum causes a rapid rise in blood glucose. This stimulates the
release of an excessive amount of insulin, leading to hypoglycemic (low
blood sugar) symptoms 2-3 hours after the meal. Dumping syndrome is managed
primarily by a dietary pattern that delays gastric emptying and allows
smaller amounts of undigested food to enter the intestine at one time.
Blessings,
dina
— Dina McBride
November 6, 2003
Yep, you sure did. But both times I've dumped has been from something +
milk. Have either or and you should be okay.
— mrsmyranow
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