Dumping Syndrome

[delacey]

I had the most terrible time the other day. I am almost 3 weeks post op so I am really just getting past the liquid stage and am in the mushy stage.
I ate about quarter of baked potato ( just the inside) with butter, tuna and cottage cheese. I thought it went down pretty well and was feeling quite pleased with myself. However..at 3.30am I had an urgency to go to bathroom my stomach kind of was gurgling and it velt like the food had dropped really quick inside and I had cramps so went to loo. Sat on the loo(nice..) I passed out for a few seconds and was white and clammy, weak and abit confused. I went back to bed to lay down and eventually went back to sleep. i thought I was dying. It was the worst thing ever. I think it was the large lump of butter I put on the potato, as I have heard it said, you can dump on butter. Hey ho, I wont touch butter again! So its a good thing really I am very cautious with my foods as I dont want this to ever happen again, it was terrifying!:wave_cry:

 

[Fuffs]

I had the most terrible time the other day. I am almost 3 weeks post op so I am really just getting past the liquid stage and am in the mushy stage.
I ate about quarter of baked potato ( just the inside) with butter, tuna and cottage cheese. I thought it went down pretty well and was feeling quite pleased with myself. However..at 3.30am I had an urgency to go to bathroom my stomach kind of was gurgling and it velt like the food had dropped really quick inside and I had cramps so went to loo. Sat on the loo(nice..) I passed out for a few seconds and was white and clammy, weak and abit confused. I went back to bed to lay down and eventually went back to sleep. i thought I was dying. It was the worst thing ever. I think it was the large lump of butter I put on the potato, as I have heard it said, you can dump on butter. Hey ho, I wont touch butter again! So its a good thing really I am very cautious with my foods as I dont want this to ever happen again, it was terrifying!:wave_cry:

I am on purée too. Filling the pouch too much can also lead to dumping I read the other day. My purée has to be runny. Maybe it was just too much for your pouch chick. Whatever it was, the result was horrid (((hugs)))

 

[Paul-H]

Hi

Look on the bright side, now that you know that you are a dumper you will be more determined than before to stay off the things that might make you dump, (high fat and high sugar foods). Now that you will keep away from those foods you will be more successful in your weightloss. Don't cut out all fats though as fats in moderation is very important to keep you digestive track working.

Paul

 

[Popadopalous]

Probably sounds strange my asking but how many spoons of sugar would it take to purposely induce dumping?

I've ate things with around 15g of sugar and have been fine but I'd actually like to experience it.

 

[Karlos]

You couldn't have got this meal more wrong if you tried without possibly adding a little sugar to it LOL

Not sure why you're eating carb loaded potato during the puréed stage or fat loaded butter? but each to their own. Tuna is also a very hard food to digest early out and is best left until you're on solid food. The cottage cheese is the only one of your foods I'd have eaten at week three, in fact it was my staple up to week six. I didn't eat potato for six months or more and no butter for even longer. Your meals should be made up of mostly protein and only when that's in should you fill up the corners with complex carbs veggies etc.

As for how much sugar makes you dump, well fats are more likely to cause dumping, sugar dumping syndrome only affects around 30% of bypass patients and even those can build a tolerance to it. Rather than wanting to experience it why not just stay away from bad food choices and maximise your success? 15g of sugar in 100g means you're eating 15% sugar, this type of dreadful food choice might not induce dumping, it's more likely to induce a failure to get the best from your golden year, and if eaten often will result in failure to reach goal and then maintain. If we don't make the changes to our lifestyles in the first months until food has no control of us any more, it will regain control, trust me I've seen it time after time

 

[Fuffs]

That's some great advice. The bit about protein and avoiding the carbs was one I have been looking for. I am going to that myself today. I know pre op I only lost when my non veg carbs were extremely low.

Thanks

 

[Big an Bouncy]

When you have experienced a dump you will be sorry you were curious!Worse feeling ever,I thought I was dying and so confused.Also the fat will of done it for sure,as karl said potato/tuna so early on is too much.Still we learn by our mistakes!

 

[delacey]

Oh dear, point taken. At 5 weeks post op I am much more careful, but thanks for the advice, I was rushing ahead too soon I think.

 

[delacey]

By the way, just reading my diet sheet and mashed potato is ok for pureed stage, thats where I got it from, i figured the tuna was good for protein (mashed in with the potato) as was the cottage cheese, the butter was not a good idea but put in to help it get down easier

 

[Raynebubble]

By the way, just reading my diet sheet and mashed potato is ok for pureed stage, thats where I got it from, i figured the tuna was good for protein (mashed in with the potato) as was the cottage cheese, the butter was not a good idea but put in to help it get down easier

Mashed potato is ok... but still only a small amount... and still at this stage eaten with something to soften it..like a bit of gravy or some kind of low fat sauce x i was on pureed food at 3 weeks x

 

[Paul-H]

Hi

As Karlos said you don't want to go anywhere near a dump.

One on the ways WLS surgery works, other than it forces you to eat less food is the fear of dumping syndrome, it can be so bad that you will think you are going to die. So the fear of that is supposed to keep you on the straight and narrow, if you test it and find you are one of those people that don't dump, how will you resists all those foods and drink that make you regain your weight, the trouble is you won't, it was those very same foods that got you in trouble I the first place wasn't it.

My advice stay off all foods and drinks that might give you a bad dump, keep all things high in either sugar, with no more than 5grams of sugar in the whole meal, fats and alcohol. Also be careful of alcohol as it easy to get hooked on it just because you have replaced one addiction (food) with another.

Paul