Question:
vomiting please help!

I have been vomiting for two weeks now, I can't eat anything! When I try to eat, I eat very slow and chew until there is nothing left to chew. about 5min later there is this gurgling stomach all the way up to my throat and an awful feeling. Within moments, I throw up!!!! I ate a scrambled egg last sunday (it took me 45 min to eat) and I threw up 12 times! Has this happened to anyone else? I am only 6 and a half weeks post op. Thanks for your help!    — sunkissed kid (posted on September 20, 2003)

September 20, 2003
CALL YOUR SURGEON! This needs to be checked out. Ascoping will likely reveal what is going on and then things can be fixed and you will improve.
   — zoedogcbr

September 20, 2003
I agree with Chris. Call your surgeon. This could be a stricture maybe. Have you tried going back to liquid diet to give stomach a rest? Best wishes
   — Barbara D.

September 21, 2003
Janet, I feared the same thing and constantly thought "STRICTURE". Even until this point 4 1/2 months later I still throw up at times but my doctor assure me that as long as food IS going down, then the reason I am throwing up may be that I am just discovering the specific foods that dont agree with me and my pouch. At 4 1/2 weeks, the vomitting was quite often......as time passed its very seldom and as stated, I think its just a matter of adjusting. IF you find that absolutely EVERYTHING makes you throw up, then, yes, maybe its a stricture. If its specific foods or specific times, etc..... then its probably your body giving you a post-op message.
   — Ted D.

September 22, 2003
Janet, When I was 4 weeks post-op, I began vomiting when I ate and drank--not all the time, and not on everything, but most of the time--I also felt very nauseas, dizzy, lightheaded, weak and sore. My Dr said give my tummy a rest and go back to soft foods, but it kept up. Since it lasted more than a week, he went in and scoped me. (I wanted to "ignore it" and assume it would go away--Dr advised against that and recommended a scope). It turned out to be a patch of the internal sutures that hadn't completely disolved. Because of that, there was a bit of stricture that he was able to dilate with a few passes of the scope, and also a bit of ulceration. He put me on Carafate 10ml 4X daily for a month to protect and heal the affected areas inside. Later that evening, I could already honestly tell I was "fixed"--no problems since. As a matter of fact, I feel like a million bucks again! :) Open RNY 8-7-03, 248/204/-44: Audra
   — jellybean0605