Question:
Why do I wake up every morning and every night

feeling nauseated? I'm 2 yrs 6 months or 30 months post-op today (LAP RNY 9/3/2002) Besides that, I can eat MUCH MORE than I think many of you do. I can't stand the thought of the pain and weight coming back and as I said in my "Life's Challenges" post, I plan on doing something about it. It just seems that I'm ALWAYS hungry. For some reason, I fel like something is wrong because I wake up feeling like *morning sickness of a mother-to-be", before I even eat or drink ANYTHING! Sometimes my used-to-be stomach hurts so bad. I wonder if the pouch or stoma or whatever is stretched? Is there any way you can tell whether your pouch is stretched other that doing that Cottage Cheese Test" (which, by-the-way is not as accurate as some might imagine based on what I've found out-everybody's 'body' is different). Anyone else feel like this? What did you do? What's wrong? I STILL want to get back to where I was at 132 pounds and eventually to between 115-126. Thanks! PROXIMAL LAP RNY 9/3/02 5'2" 265/182/115-126 Hadiyah, a.k.a~~~    — yourdivaness (posted on May 17, 2005)

May 17, 2005
Maybe you need to eat a snack before you go to bed. If your just doing the 3 regular meals and the last time you eat is like 7pm, your stomach is then going on NOTHING for a good 12 hours. That ALWAYS causes me to have nausea. I found that if I had a little snack around 10pm, that I don't have the nausea in the mornings. I also can eat more now at 3 1/2 years post-op. Most people would NEVER know that I had my stomach stapled based on what I can eat. But I do get full. I never did before. I guess we just need to limit our calories to about 1500 a day and exercise to continue to lose weight or maintain our loss. I've put on about 5 pounds but it REALLY does make a difference in the way my clothes fit so I need to TAKE IT OFF NOW!!!!!!!
   — Patty H.

May 20, 2005
Sounds like you need an antacid type medication. I take prilosec everyday and when the symptoms get worse due to stress I take it twice a day.
   — catleth