Gastric Sleeve almost 4 years out

[lisamarie61 1]

Hello all I am new to this site I was on another WL sit a few years ago, anyway I have a question does anyone else have issues with NOT being able to vomit when ill? I have not vomited since before my surgery in Oct 2011. Of course I had the issues when learning to cope with my new tool i.e., smaller stomach and would feel like I had to throw up but that was not like the feeling I have now when I am sick with the flu or just a bad reaction a food, I get so very nauseous and I know vomiting would be the only thing to give me relief yet I cannot, it's just dry heaves and I feel so sick I pray for death!!! Just kidding but you know that feeling when ill like that, so I wanted to check with real patients not just websites about Gastric Sleeve.

All replies will be greatly appreciated!!!

A fellow sleever 2011

[ProudGrammy 8,322]

anyone have issues with NOT being able to vomit when ill?

@@lisamarie61

welcome to our "club"

congrats on your first post

i've felt that sick feeling a few times

i tried to force the food out by vomiting

i stopped doing that as quickly as i started

when i feel/felt awful, (i turn red and hot )

i lay in bed

fall right to sleep cuz of the horrible way i feel

in about 30 minutes i will wake up and feel fine

(except for the angry/awful/guilty feeling of overeating )

please don't try and continue to force yourself to throw up

not good for you

you know that

i hope you can get some relief a better way

are you possibly eating too quickly??

after 3.5 years i would have thought you would already realized what food was not good for you

but food choices do change - something new can disagree with you

i think if you are having dry heaves, its your tummy and head telling you to STOP IT

some other people MIGHT be going crazy with someone trying to vomit

many others vomit - and would probably give anything not to have to vomit

hope everything else is moving a long well

you were sleeved 2 months before i was

or, i was sleeved 2 months after you were

congrats on loosing 95.5 lbs

good luck

kathy

[lisamarie61 1]

Thank you @ proudgrammy for the comments. But I wasn't forcing or trying to vomit I was just saying that ever since I had the sleeve I have not been able to throw up when I am ill with the flu or stomach things, I know what upsets me and what doesn't so it's all good there. Just the other night I must have had a 24 hour bug and nothing would come up as much as it wanted to it's being between a rock and a hard place for sure, yuck.

Thank you for the welcome! Congrats to you as well on your weight loss this journey has an up and own ride but I wouldn't change a thing about it. I love my tool and how it works.

[Muffy's Girl 1]

@@lisamarie61 Did you get a hiatal hernia repair when you were sleeved? I did and was told I would not be able to vomit either. I am almost 8 mos post op and luckily have not had to deal with a stomach virus yet but know I eventually will. Was wondering what would happen when it finally hits me and it sounds like I will have nauseau from hell.

Edited July 27, 2015 by Muffy's Girl