Health grump
Well, for the last three days I've been on a self-imposed cereal diet. GERD, after laying low for a couple of weeks, decided to wake me up two days running with bile burps, then I spent Monday and Tuesday eating antacids by the literal handful, and by Wednesday I had the obligatory lump in my throat that no real food was going to pass.
Last time this happened I ate cereal for a couple of days, and was All Better (well, as better as I ever am). However, a New Twist has been added, which is Not Delightful at all:
I now dump on more than a half cup of milk added to plain old Cheerios, no added sugar or anything. Yippee.
For those that don't know by now, dumping is a particularly wonderful sometime side effect of gastric bypass -- if you eat more sugar than your body can handle, it all slams the small intestine at once, then your pancreas pumps out a whole shitload of insulin to handle this OMG amount of sugar (which can be as little as a teaspoon of jam on toast), which then causes sweating, nausea, and sometimes diarrhea or vomiting or both. I usually dump on about 20 gm of sugar, which is about about a teaspoon of sugar.
I discovered this Wednesday night, when I had some Quaker Oatmeal Squares (10 gm sugar per 1 cup serving + 5 gm sugar in 1/2 cup 2% skim milk = 15 gm sugar, below my tolerance level). I figured I'd had too much of the cereal, which is "lightly sweetened", because about an hour after I ate I got sweaty and nauseous, then 30 min after that I had ass-pee from hell. All Night Long. Last emission was clear, foamy and horrific.
So Thursday night I had a cup of generic Cheerios (1 gm sugar in 1 cup + 5 gm sugar in the milk = 6 gm sugar, WAY below my tolerance level). Repeat scenario of previous day. Didn't have the sheer volume because, aside from half a hamburger, all I'd had to eat the rest of the day was some rye bread and 2 nectarines.
Today I've had a cup of yogurt and a banana, 3 slices of rye bread, and that's it. I'm planning on probably having a cup of yogurt tonight and a couple of nectarines. That cereal has me scared.
Either I'm dumping on the lactose, my lactose intolerance has reared its ugly head, or my IBS has come back. I kind of doubt the last two, because of the diaphoresis and the nausea.
September 21 is my appt with the specialist about the GERD. It can't come soon enough for me.
On a brighter note, I did my 60 sec jogs at 3.5 mph today! That's faster than I was jogging back in November, after about 7 weeks of conditioning!
Last time this happened I ate cereal for a couple of days, and was All Better (well, as better as I ever am). However, a New Twist has been added, which is Not Delightful at all:
I now dump on more than a half cup of milk added to plain old Cheerios, no added sugar or anything. Yippee.
For those that don't know by now, dumping is a particularly wonderful sometime side effect of gastric bypass -- if you eat more sugar than your body can handle, it all slams the small intestine at once, then your pancreas pumps out a whole shitload of insulin to handle this OMG amount of sugar (which can be as little as a teaspoon of jam on toast), which then causes sweating, nausea, and sometimes diarrhea or vomiting or both. I usually dump on about 20 gm of sugar, which is about about a teaspoon of sugar.
I discovered this Wednesday night, when I had some Quaker Oatmeal Squares (10 gm sugar per 1 cup serving + 5 gm sugar in 1/2 cup 2% skim milk = 15 gm sugar, below my tolerance level). I figured I'd had too much of the cereal, which is "lightly sweetened", because about an hour after I ate I got sweaty and nauseous, then 30 min after that I had ass-pee from hell. All Night Long. Last emission was clear, foamy and horrific.
So Thursday night I had a cup of generic Cheerios (1 gm sugar in 1 cup + 5 gm sugar in the milk = 6 gm sugar, WAY below my tolerance level). Repeat scenario of previous day. Didn't have the sheer volume because, aside from half a hamburger, all I'd had to eat the rest of the day was some rye bread and 2 nectarines.
Today I've had a cup of yogurt and a banana, 3 slices of rye bread, and that's it. I'm planning on probably having a cup of yogurt tonight and a couple of nectarines. That cereal has me scared.
Either I'm dumping on the lactose, my lactose intolerance has reared its ugly head, or my IBS has come back. I kind of doubt the last two, because of the diaphoresis and the nausea.
September 21 is my appt with the specialist about the GERD. It can't come soon enough for me.
On a brighter note, I did my 60 sec jogs at 3.5 mph today! That's faster than I was jogging back in November, after about 7 weeks of conditioning!