I know my dr asks me every time I see him if I have thrown up but I had not until the other night. Boy was I sick. I ate some salmon too fast and it got lodged. It hurt soooo bad and all I threw up was phelmn. Did it twice. NExt day was very sore at pouch. I know I ate too fast but you might talk to your dr. Could be a stricture or something. Let us know!

I'm 11 months out, and I still get very sick from raw foods.... dry heaves, no fun at all. I just avoid eating what makes me sick.
have you talk with your Dr about this? I know there is a scope they can do to see if there is something in your pouch making you sick. might be worth the call.

I read on here that people get "foamies"....and sometimes a runny nose if you eat too fast or too much.

not sure, maybe some post oppers will help w/this one!

I used to throw up all the time. Well, it was not actually throwing up food. I dry heaved like you do. My nose would run and eyes would water. I asked the nurse if I would ever vomit food and she said eventually I would. I have not gotten sick in over 1 month and hope that I never do. Dry heaves are just as bad as vomiting as far as I'm concerned.

Just like all the posts here at one time or another I have eaten too fast and gotten sick. However the part which made me sick or hurts won't move. When something hurts and won't come up, I have about 2 or 3 sips of hot water. It seems to do the trick for me and bring up whatever is making is stuck or hurts. It doesn't happen often, but when it does all I want is relief :)

well i throw up at least once aweek, its food no dry heaving here. i'm not sure only that it i like it ,it stays, and if my tummy dont it comes up. i eat slow, i chew chew chew.. just sometimes it comes up.

not sure..

Ive done both: dry heaves and actual throwing up. Personally, I prefer throwing up!! It gets the pain over faster. My guess is that the food is just past your pouch when you are dry heaving. You said something about taking your meds, and I assume you took them with something to drink...that can absolutely cause pain, and the water makes it harder to actually hack up the food.

At the first sign of an unhappy pouch, I do everything possible to empty it ASAP. Im a year and a half out, and havent gotten sick in a year. I had one, brief episode in April of this year, when I drank water too soon after eating. Couldnt throw up.just suffered through the saliva and pain.

Focus when you eat. Eat slowly. Chew everything to a liquid. If in doubt, dont swallow it!!

JJ

Still throwing up. No matter how much I chew or time I take eating, it seems inevitable that I am going to be sick and in horrible pain. Drink a lot of protein shakes to avoid eating. Cannot eat meat at all. Don't know what the answer is to the problem. Hoping time will make things better.

The biggest threat to throwing up, early on, is : 1) eating things that are too rough for the pouch and/or 2) too many carbs...even good carbs. How many can you have depends on the person. I could take in about "8" and that was it for the first 6 months or so. Maybe 10 some days...but I just stuck with proteins and wrote it all down, so I could have a pretty exact idea of what I could take in.

If I tried to eat an apple or tomato without peeling the skin, that would have been a problem. For me, trying to eat pork, beef or chicken, would promise to be a mistake...in terms of upset and discomfort, no matter how small a bite, or how much chewing happened. That had nothing to do with carbs, but rather texture. I was well over a year post op, before I tried to eat my favorite...NUTS. Strangely, for me, NO problems there...and you know they have to be hard to digests.

So my best advice is keep track, and add a new food one at a time, no matter if it's meat, fruit, whatever...and see how you do .You may have to cut out one food at a time, if you aren't sure in any given meal/snack, what is causing the upset.

Yes, some do not have much throwing up .... I only had foamies, or troubles a few times, but stuck to basics and gave myself an "A" for following the plan as directed. I really think that helps. It's tempting to try other things, but back to basics might be in order.

I am over a year out and I still will throw up at times. There doesn't seem to be a connection to a certain type of food though which is frustrating. Maybe it's because I ate too fast. I must admit that I do feel much better after I throw up because the pain subsides and it is a relieving feeling.