Why Is Throwing Up So Much More Work Now Than Before Surgery?

[yoshikitty 8]

Before surgery when I would get sick, even when I was a kid, I would puke a waterfall and the sound effects could be heard from the other side of the house. The intensity was powerful. I haven't thrown up since surgery except for 2 times, both when I overate. My question is why doesn't. The puke come out like it used to (all at once?) It isn't like my throat shrunk. I just think it is weird!

[Rootman 1,101]

I suppose it's just a matter of capacity. Less stomach to hold less puke. I know the few times I've puked (for the same reason as you, overeating) it was one quick mouthful and it's over.

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

I had a legit gastroenteritis a few months ago, and the vomiting was still quite forceful. It's very different than the weird burp-vomits from overeating. I think those ones come just from food stuck in the esophagus and coming back up, and aren't real vomiting.

[M2G 1,836]

Well, I wouldn't know because I have not puked ONCE since being sleeved 18 months ago. Choosing the VSG over the band was such a huge weight lifted off my shoulder because I had heard about the PBing (productive-burping) with the band where when food gets stuck it has to go down or come back out, and I just couldn't bear the thought. So I choose the VSG and there really was only one time that I overate and *thought* it might come back up, but about 20 minutes and it passed. Phew.

I might be a little unusual in the never-having-puked-post-VSG department, but I'm also super happy about it. And knock-on-wood I haven't had the flu or anything else that would cause me to vomit. Yay!

[Globetrotter 1,340]

I'm so glad to see this thread, I thought I was the only one! I've been sleeved almost 2 years and I think I managed to vomit twice and sometimes as horrible as it is, you really do need to puke and you know you would feel so much better if you did so it is a strange sort of frustration to not be able to do this (horrible gross) thing. I was so ill and desperate one of the two times I puked that I actually tried to help things along and stuck my finger down my throat. *shudder* that was so so SO horrible.