I hate it when people post just to post.....

[plain 12]

I don't think there's anything wrong with it! Heck, there used to be a young man that helped out with a summer lunch / recreation program I worked at during my teen years, and I used to pay him .

Ya know, there're a lot of porn movies that have that same plot - Bow-chicak -wah - wah

so, what did i miss?

Sexual innuendo and jerkish comments by yours truly!! I do it for you, C!!

[Donna113 2]

WTG Susan and Beth on your losses!

babygrl - where's OHJuli? I haven't seen a posting from her in ages. OhJuli, if you're lurking, Happy Birthday!

[BethFromVA 5]

Way to go! Doesn't that feel good!

IT DOES! And lookie at you! WTG!

Thanks, Babygrl. :thumbup: Oh, and Tap and Donna!

Edited April 16, 2009 by BethFromVA
Added tap and Donna

[BethFromVA 5]

Beth, I took a look at that link you posted about the 19yr old who's having a lot of the same problems that I had. I can't imagine going as long as she has. I'll have to find it again to see if she's updated at all. Drive-time, phooey!, get thee to the surgeon NOW!!!! I pray she and her band are okay but I don't know after this long. Sounds bad.

Yeah, I just saw your post to her over there.

I'm worried because I don't believe bile goes brown. That tells me it's something else (though obviously I'm not a doctor).

[plain 12]

I'm worried because I don't believe bile goes brown. That tells me it's something else (though obviously I'm not a doctor).

Most likely it's blood. Hopefully it's from a raw esophagus (with all the vomiting), but I would bet a dolla she's bleeding somewhere along her GI.

[BethFromVA 5]

Most likely it's blood. Hopefully it's from a raw esophagus (with all the vomiting), but I would bet a dolla she's bleeding somewhere along her GI.

Yeah, I agreed when I read your post saying that yesterday. I certainly don't know much about our inner workings, but when I had my gall bladder attack some years back and was throwing up so badly, I am sure it went to bile, and it wasn't brown.

She's been quiet all day. I hope it means she got some help. She worries me.

[heartfire 4]

Okay, TSV (total scale victory):

Whoo Hoo!!!!! WTG Beth!!!

WTF can't Uncle Sam just get it right when he takes money from my paycheck. Because, seriously, looking at this mess makes me want to cry. I am not even finished yet and already poorer than I was this afternoon. F*&^*&ck the state of Michigan. I swear I had better not leave the house tonight because if I see one person with 13 kids in tow paying for groceries with a bridge card and wearing designer clothes I am going to flip out. But then at least my tax dollars would be going to pay for my own care at the county jail.

That's why DH does our taxes. I have to deal with payroll taxes at work. Not touching ours too! And I'm sorry but you made me LOL at the 13 kids thing!

Yeah, I just saw your post to her over there.

I'm worried because I don't believe bile goes brown. That tells me it's something else (though obviously I'm not a doctor).

I just figured that's what I was throwing up by Mon afternoon. It was acidic brown stuff. My mom said it was bile. But I was hurting so much maybe it's what Plain said below. I may have been bleeding somewhere. Everything before that was clear once I cleared out the initial mess. I seem to be okay now. And I haven't tossed anything since an hour before getting unfilled.

Most likely it's blood. Hopefully it's from a raw esophagus (with all the vomiting), but I would bet a dolla she's bleeding somewhere along her GI.

She may be but I sure hope not! Pretty sure you're right tho. Plain, could I be bleeding and not know it? What would I look for? I'm not worried per se, just wanting to make sure I'm paying attention. I'm still really sore, I'm assuming that would be normal after what I went thru?

Yeah, I agreed when I read your post saying that yesterday. I certainly don't know much about our inner workings, but when I had my gall bladder attack some years back and was throwing up so badly, I am sure it went to bile, and it wasn't brown.

She's been quiet all day. I hope it means she got some help. She worries me.

I hate to even ask what it looked like but part of me is curious. I should have gone into the medical field! I'm always curious about stuff! Tests, how the machines work, that kinda thing. When I was going thru infertility stuff, they tested my fallopian tubes and I got to watch the screen while the dye went thru and he told me all about what was happening. It was so cool. I also had to have a CT Scan and MRI (migraine diagnosis) and they're telling me to lay still and not move and I'm trying to see the machines work and how it's doing it with only moving my eyes! I'm such a dork!

I'm hoping she's quiet on the boards b/c she's with her surgeon or getting help at the nearest hospital. It's what I'm praying for anyway.

'Night all!

[MacMadame 81]

I thought bile was yellow?

All this talk of butter cake and ooey-gooey cakes and Paula Dean is making me a bit nauseous. I think I've turned into one of *those* people... the ones who only eat healthy food and turn their noses up at the unwashed masses who go to McDonalds and eat Hostess cupcakes. :sneaky:

[plain 12]

All this talk of butter cake and ooey-gooey cakes and Paula Dean is making me a bit nauseous. I think I've turned into one of *those* people... the ones who only eat healthy food and turn their noses up at the unwashed masses who go to McDonalds and eat Hostess cupcakes. :sneaky:

Snob!

But to be fair....I'm one o' them guys that eats cupcakes in my wifebeater in Wal-Mart while my barefoot kids run amok.

[*slim* 2]

Snob!

But to be fair....I'm one o' them guys that eats cupcakes in my wifebeater in Wal-Mart while my barefoot kids run amok.

What a mental image for a Thursday morning!:sneaky:

[babygrl1234 6]

I thought bile was yellow?

All this talk of butter cake and ooey-gooey cakes and Paula Dean is making me a bit nauseous. I think I've turned into one of *those* people... the ones who only eat healthy food and turn their noses up at the unwashed masses who go to McDonalds and eat Hostess cupcakes. :sneaky:

I wanna be a snob like you.

I have gotten over my a$$ raping from Uncle Sam. I made hubs take me to dinner last night and I pigged out. And of course we all *know* that food solves anything.

[*slim* 2]

And of course we all *know* that food solves anything.

You mean it doesn't? Crap!

[plain 12]

Plain, could I be bleeding and not know it? What would I look for? I'm not worried per se, just wanting to make sure I'm paying attention. I'm still really sore, I'm assuming that would be normal after what I went thru?

Well....I'm not a doc, or even a nurse. Heck, I don't even play one on TV, so any other "medical" person wanna jump in?

My $.02? If you were bleeding any significant amount, you'd probably know. The symptoms would vary, depending from what area the bleed is located in. I'd think it is absolutely normal for you to be sore and swollen from all the trauma that you went through taking them damn pills!!

[tapshoes 2]

morning everyone - bright sunshine, temps above freezing, hot coffee, empty office, and a Thursday to boot...what a grand day!:sneaky:

[Kat817 19]

heartfire---when I had the problem of throwing everything up, and I do mean everything, there was a point it was darker, but that was only a short time, and then it went to being exactly what I had drank and nothing else.

My surgeon told me, if I was bleeding and it was going into my pouch or stomach and sitting, when I threw it up it would look like coffee grounds.

He also said if I ended up with a tear in my esophagus it would be a RED blood as it would be fresh.

In my case (I had a twisted intestine, and NOTHING was passing) nothing stayed in long enough for it to be old---be it blood or Water. I drank, it went down hit the blockage like a trampoline and up it come!

My DH had a really serious, life threatening GI bleed. He had heart surgery - his mitral valve failed. Then the local Dr.'s office mis managed his coumadin (blood thinner) therapy, and misread a chart from a 7.1 to a 1.1, and upped his dosage again. Or it could have been the other way I don't remember. Anyway the antibiotics he was on made him sick, and when he vomitted the first time, there was only a small red speck or 2-but noticable. Within minutes he threw up again and it was all BRIGHT RED. We head to the hospital, and you could see his abdomen swelling. They kept after him "are you sure it was blood?" he told them to give him something cuz he was fixing to show them. She handed him the little kidney shaped spit dish, and he grabbed the wash basin--and filled it with blood!

Ended up he had what is called a double Mallory Weiss esophageal tear. They are very common in lesser severity among alcoholics and anorexics, because vomitting weakens the esophagus, and they vomit frequently!

His Dr. called us in and told us he would likely expire (HATE that word) in the next 10 minutes, because he had so much coumadin in his system that they simply could not find a way to staunch the flow of blood.

Ended up he and a surgeon tried an experimental approach with some balloons, and saved his life! Even with all the blood they gave him, every time it cycled through his liver, the liver and all the coumadin in his system, pulled the clotting agent from the new blood as well. He ended up in ICU for a week, and is now in several medical write ups!!!

No bleeding of the GI tract should be ignored, but especially if there are extenuating circumstances, and her band is definitely one! She could be dealing with an erosion as opposed to a slip....they happen.

That post scared me for her too. Wish we knew what happen!