MAJOR DUMP

Last week after eating a single lamb chop (fat cut off) + some couscous and veg, I had a MAJOR dump!!

Now, before I get any emails telling me this is sick and is PG rated, dumping is really called Gastric Bypass Dumping Syndrome or rapid gastric emptying and it happens when the lower end of the small intestine, the jejunum, fills too quickly with undigested food from the pouch. Normally, the pyloric valve at the lower end of the pouch regulates the release of food into the bowel. When a Gastric Bypass patient (Me) eats a sugary food (or fatty food or eat too quickly etc etc), the food passes rapidly into the bowel, where it gives rise to a physiological reaction called dumping syndrome. An affected person (again, me) feels his heart beating rapidly and forcefully, breaks into a cold sweat, nausea, vomiting, bloating, cramping, diarrhea, dizziness and fatigue.

In this case it lasted for 2 hours! I walked up and down and around and would have flown if I could....After an hour Lisa called Celeste and she brought me anti-nausea and pain suppositiries all the way from Tableview at 8pm. Thanks my life-saving friend! The closest way I can describe it is if you have eaten the biggest meal of your life and then ate an extra plate for good measure. You are VERY uncomfortable and then start getting stomach cramps, you feel nauseous 'cause of too much food AND there is a big wind you can't burp out and you wanna be sick but CAN'T....

Anyway lamb is off the menu for ever and I survivived. Whew! Scared me off eating anything for a day or so.