female only Getting Sick or sorry to say...Vomit?

[MontereyMom 13]

Has anyone been sick since having the sleeve done? Is it harder on your body, then before? Does it hurt to vomit, can you vomit? I tend to get sick from time to time (usually winter ), I have a weak immune system and I was wondering about these things?

[Sharon Lane 4]

Good question, I was wondering the same thing! Like if you get the stomach bug, I have 4 kids and every year it goes thru the house so I was wondering if it makes a difference like u said.

[MontereyMom 13]

Oh good, I am not the only one with kids stressing about this? In fact, I weighed in at 264 just two weeks ago, before we had a nasty stomach bug run through our house! It was awful.

[Sassygirl06 962]

Yes....this was a huge deal to me. I have three kids and they are always bringing home some sort of intestinal bug.

Anyways to answer your question....yes I have gotten the stomach flu since being sleeved. Actually the bug was not as bad as before having the sleeve. I got the dry heeves a lot...which sucked....but I would try to suck down some Water quickly and then I would have something in my tummy to vomit up. Vomit does not have that horrible taste to me anymore...I guess because I don't have so many acid pumps as before so not much stomach acid in there to make it burn and such.

In all your sleeve can handle it just fine...I would recommend avoiding anyone with a stomach virus for a couple of months while your new tummy is healing though!

[LadyKatie 61]

I am 7 week post op and I have thrown up after eating meat multiple times. It feels pretty much the same. The only major difference is what comes up (besides bits of food) is a white spit looking bike. That is the gross thing. It's foamy and makes you want to throw up more. Other than that it's the exact same!

[MontereyMom 13]

THANK YOU FOR THE REPLYS- this helps, the more info I know, the better equipped I feel.