Post Whipple 9 months daily vomiting

[Mich1031]

My husband has gone through motility, endoscopies, abdominal ct's and the only thing that shows is excessive bile in his stomach and a small hyatel hernia.  He had been on protonix for approx 4 years due to barretts esoph. and recently switched over to prevacid 2/day.  The last endoscopy did not show barretts esoph.  but he vomits sometimes 3 or more times a day.  This can go on for days at a time then for some reason he has a day with no vomiting.  This has been going on since February.  He has been given prescriptions to bind up the bile and to coat the stomach none seem to make a difference.  He did undergo chemo and radiation back in October and November but due to his vomiting and nausea he has been unable to continue treatments.  Fortunately his cancer count has been falling and there has been no sign of tumors or metastisizing since.  Sorry for the spelling.  Your direction would be deeply appreciated.  There are days he just wants to give up and feels hopeless.
Michele

[CalGal]

If they took part of the stomach, it was probably the lower part which includes the pyloric sphincter. That's the muscular opening (sphincter) that partitions the stomach from the small intestine. Without that partitioning, it's going to be very difficult, unfortunately, to keep bile out of the stomach, but it also depends a bit on exactly where they placed the stoma (opening) of/to the duodenum on the stomach when they made the connection. You may want to ask his doc if something like Reglan (which stimulates the motility of the stomach) would help. It's not a drug that everyone can take, and it's dosage/use has to be monitored.  

[Mich1031]

I hope this answers correctly.  They took the head of the pancreas, part of the stomach, part of sm. intestine, part of the deodonum (sp?), and gallbladder.

[CalGal]

What form of Whipple did he have done. There are various types of Whipple procedure.