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Bread and dumping

Spikeyjaycee

Spikeyjaycee

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I had quite a bit of bready type foods yesterday (2 slices fruit bread, jacket potato with baked beans, 2 wholemeal pitta breads, some quavers, some rivitas) and for the last 9 hours I've felt pretty crap. I'm dry heaving, no diaorhea, but feel I have a blockage of sorts. Is this likely to be because of the bread or is it more likely a bug? I always thought dumping only lasted a short while?
All replies gratefully received!
Julie
 
It sounds like the bread is causing a blockage and not dumping. Two different things. I still really struggle with bread. Dumping only lasts a couple of hours at most but a blockage can cause me to feel awful all day.
 
I was told warm fluids to help shift it.
 
yep, warm fluids... make yourself a cuppa and just sip it. Also walking around/standing up can help gravity.
 
Def agree there if i have a blockage i just carry a sports bottle around with me and continually sip to push the food down, hope u feel better soon x
 
The advice above is correct. If i feel bloated or like something is stuck i find lieing down for 10 minutes and then walking around for 10 minutes and keep doing that untill it goes.
 
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I think though that it is a bug cos its been going since 10pm last nite - I have NO food in me to 'push through' and I'm bringing up whatever fluid I drink. If it was dumping.......it wouldn't last this long would it?
 
My advice, go and see a medical person...

The body rejects things as a warning and if you are not keeping fluids down that can be serious.

I was told that because we have had major surgery and things inside us are different, we should be more vigilant of pain, being sick etc, as it can be more damaging.

Please if you have not been able to keep fluids in for a period of more than 48 hours you will be dehydrating rapidly and it can lead to all kinds of problems. Best to get it looked at and it be nothing, than to leave it and it become something.
 
Contact your bariatric team, it could be that you have a stenosis preventing you getting fluids down. It's not so much of an urgent problem with food but if you can't get fluids down, definitely see someone.
 
I had the same feeling Friday just gone and i think it was dumping as i was sweating and felt like somethin was stuck and was dry heving for ages I also couldnt drink as it just came back up. It started about 10pm on Friday and ended up having paracetamol about 2am to ease the pain then ended up on couch all night. Next day felt like crap due to retching and no sleep so think we all react in different ways. Its the first time ive dumped but definatly wanna avoid it again in future.

If you are still in pain though definatly contact the medical team as my symptms had gone by next morning apart from my chest as i pulled it through the retching.

Hope this helps.
 
UPDATE: Well I ended up calling NHS Direct at 5am yesterday morning. They sent the duty doctor out who gave me an injection in the bottom and some tablets. It still took till midday before I stopped retching though. Now I just ache where I was dry heaving. Am taking soluble paracetamol for the aches. All I can remember thinking is I didn't have half this much pain wth the bypass itself!!! Thanks for all your replies
 
UPDATE on previous UPDATE:
OK. Next time I come on here and tell everyone how much better I am feeling - tell me to GO AWAY! I lasted 1.5 hours at work yesterday before having to come home cos of the nausea and stomach pain.


Then when Matt came home we spent 7 HOURS at Casualty where I had urine samples, blood samples, x-rays, a finger up my bottom and a chat with the surgical consultant. It seems I have gastroenteritis and have been signed off work for a week! Poor Matt has ended up with a headache and I feel strange.
 
at least you got a finger in the bum.

oh dear, im sorry, that wasnt that funny... ahem.

im glad you got it sorted hun! rest up and take care of yourself.

(just wondering, why did they pop a finger in?!)


.x.
 
UPDATE: Well sorry for not being on here for a few days. At long last the NHS actually found I DID have something after going back to A&E last Tuesday - I have gallstones and an infection in my gall bladder. I was hospitalised and got released today with my already restricted diet now even further restricted cos I'm not allowed any fat in my diet.......and my taste buds have deserted me! Will write more another time.....
 
Oh Julie, you have my deepest sympathies having to cope with gallstone pain. Hopefully they are proposing to remove your gallbladder for you? I have just had mine done and its a relatively simple op these days. I was done in an hour and a half, and home 6 hours after surgery.

Fingers crossed that you dont have too many painful attacks whilst you are waiting for surgery.
 
Hi Samucca
Well I am sore and fragile but with the amount of dry retching I was doing its hardly surprising! One thing this has flagged up is whether when you have a bypass your gall bladder should be removed automatically at the same time to stop episodes like I've just experienced. I'm still glad I had the op but my relationship with food has been ruined. Hospital food didn't help either as they don't really cater for bypassers - I had dried chicken and jacket potato - yum - NOT!!
Do you mind me asking when you had the gall bladder out - was it done by laser? Thanks!
 
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