Dumping syndrome

[rosegarden]

Is it possible to have dumping syndrome without having had a previous gastric operation, or any other former gastroentrological sickness whatsoever? What would cause that?

[floridiananna]

A related discussion, dumping syndrome was started.

[rosegarden]

I do have a meeting with my doctor next week and I will ask for the A1C test (I understand that it shows whether you had high glucose levels in your blood - unbalanced diabetes, actually - in the last 3 months).
I will also try the Giardia Lamblia option - I was in Mexico last November - I wonder if that counts...
And as for wheight loss - I wasn't so lucky... I actually feel heavier than ever, my tummy is constantly upset and sensitive and I keep feeling "full" all the time.

[rosegarden]

Thanks for your comment. I don't have such extreme symptoms, but whenever I eat a slightly bigger meal lately (that is, bigger than some cottage cheese spread on a crisp bread), and especially if this meal includes carbohydrates (whole grain bread also counted) and I also drink along, I get real pale after around 15-20 minutes, very weak, my heart races and produces a lot of premature beats and I feel very sick (I did not vomit until now but do feel like I am going to). Nothing really helps, but after an hour or so it goes away. I am perfectly healthy otherwise, never was seriously sick' hospitalized or operated. I can't figure out what could actually cause this. I guess I will have to seek some proper medical help if it doesn't get any better soon.
Thanks

[Addie]

it does sound like Dumping Syndrome to me.  I am no doctor just a sufferer of this but it very well can occur without a surgical procedure.  Something may be going on in the tummy or you could have something like Giardia or another type of parasite because one of the Gastro docs I saw early on...suspected this with me.

Have you been to Mexico or out of the country prior to this all starting? The doc even asked me if I had been to Colorado?

Good Luck to you.

[MeanOleRedHead66]

Hello..
another suggestion... you may want to talk to your doctor about checking your blood sugar... have them do the blood test that checks the level over a period of time, but only requires one poke.  I think its called Hemoglobin A1C.
I have problems similar to yours and that was one of the tests that they did on me.  Also, I just (a few months ago) found out that I have a divided pancreas, and that my body can't naturally break down fats and stuff, so I have packed on weight and can't get rid of it.  There are procedures to fix it, but from what I have heard, sometimes the fix is worse than the problem itself.
I have the dumping syndrome too, but I haven't lost weight from it.  Darn it all..lol.  Breads seem to be the worst for me, as long as I don't eat it, I'm ok.

[Addie]

I am not a doctor but 25 years ago, i had a bad surgeon who while he was taking out my gallbladder saw a small hiatal hernia (you are suppose to leave these alone) he decided to do something called a Vagotomy and a pyloroplasty. Have no idea still what he did.  

A few weeks later, after eating a piece of cake and a coke, I felt very weak and dizzy and sick to my stomach.  I had to lay down as my heart was racing.  I then had the diarreah and vomited.  This happened every time, I drank something with my meals OR ate something sweet.

The surgeon did not have a clue but a few years later, another doctor told me that i was describing "the dumping Syndrome" and this only comes with a surgical procedure to the gut.

I went back to the doc who had done the surgery and he told me that "NO, YOU do not have the dumping Syndrome as I did not do a Gastric by Pass on You!"...

WELL. I did have the dumping.  In one year time, I had dropped over 30 lbs. and was weiging 90 lbs.  This dumping is HORRIBLE!

There are 2 different kinds of Dumping...Early dumping and late dumping.  I had both.   Regardless of what this Idiot surgeon did, HE did cause me to have the dumping Syndrome by a surgical procedure.  

I hope you do not have this.

Good Luck.