Question:
How can people burp up a BM

i have read 3 times on this board of questions that some people have been burping up BM's or vomiting up BM's this leaves me very confused how does it happen and how can the BM make it all the way up??? can someone please explain..can this happen to anyone of us or are this people pipes messed up from surgery????    — [Deactivated Member] (posted on October 1, 2001)

October 1, 2001
I think you may have misread something here, Deborah. I've been reading these boards for 18 months now and have never seen anything remotely like that. I'm quite sure it is not possible.
   — Anne G.

October 1, 2001
I've been reading the boards daily for a year. I've never seen anything about burping BMs. I'm sure it's impossible, also.
   — Kathy J.

October 1, 2001
I've heard of people burping DURING BM's but not burping them up. Anyway, go to the archives and do a search on BMs and see if you can find someone, then email him/her.
   — Kimberly L.

October 1, 2001
If you are burping up or throwing up BM's you probably have a bowel obstruction. Call your doc!
   — [Anonymous]

October 1, 2001
I haven't read what you have, but I do know from my general (not WLS)surgeon that if you have a bowel obstruction which is untreated long enough, you can and do vomit your BMs as they will not be able to go the other way. Usually, at that point, you need emergency surgery IMMEDIATELY!!! It is a life or death situation. This is not necessarily a WLS problem. In fact, I had my bowel obstruction surgery a full 6 months before my WLS. Yes, there is a risk of bowel obstruction with this surgery, but it is also there with any other type of abdominal surgery. I had an adhesion from a hysterectomy three years ago which wrapped around my bowel and nearly closed it off completely. Fortunately, I had surgery to fix it before it came to the point of vomiting BMs. My surgeon figured I would have had that happen if it had been another month or so before we discovered the obstruction. So, yes it can happen, but it is not necessarily related to WLS.
   — Maria H.

October 2, 2001
Actually, it happened to me when I was all of 9 years old, when I was at the ER for an emergency appendectomy.... but I have never heard of it happening with WLS.
   — Karen R.

September 2, 2002
I read a story about a lady doing her 6 weeks stint in ER while in medical school. A guy came in who couldn't eat anything. Everything he ate, he threw up and he swore it tasted literally like sh@t. It turned out he had a bowel obstruction and he was indeed barfing up some you-know-what. I didn't remember much of that lady's story of going through medical school but that part really made an impression on me. WOW!
   — Carmen K.