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Hi.

Surgery
Gastric sleeve
Date
12/31/19
Start Weight
378 lbs
Goal Weight
200 lbs
Currently
330 lbs
Progress
27%
Down 37 lbs science the surgery 8 weeks ago. But had many complications with nausea, vomiting, dehydration and others. Now I can hold food down and exercising at the gym. I'm I on the right track in the amount of weight I have lossed?
 
I’m not sure what your track should be, but if you feel good then I’d say you’re on the right track for you! Sorry about your complications, but sounds like you’ve turned a corner. Congrats!
 
Down 37 lbs science the surgery 8 weeks ago. But had many complications with nausea, vomiting, dehydration and others. Now I can hold food down and exercising at the gym. I'm I on the right track in the amount of weight I have lossed?
Did you have bypass? I'm curious what muscles contract to force vomit when your stomach is just hanging out in the back. If sleeve, can you pop sutures? Does it hurt? I'm scared to death of vomiting post surgery.
 
When you throw up, it's just a little bit, no like pre surgery. I threw up a couple times when I drank water - was just a little bit, right after surgery,
 
Did you have bypass? I'm curious what muscles contract to force vomit when your stomach is just hanging out in the back. If sleeve, can you pop sutures? Does it hurt? I'm scared to death of vomiting post surgery.
Had the sleeve. Dont know what muscles contract to force it up. At first it hurt but now it dosent. The vomiting isn't like before surgery it comes up very easy.
 
your stomach is an organ with layers of tissue and muscles. You can't damage it by vomiting unless you've been an alcoholic for about a hundred years. It's made to stretch and expand, and you have nothing to worry about. check out its anatomy and notice how hard it would be to stretch it or make it pop a staple. even as a small pouch, it still contains its layers. It's several millimeters thick but you can look it up to see exactly how thick that is.

but even if it weren't thick, remember that vomiting originates in the stomach. it's the stomach itself that's sending the food back up as vomit. it just sits there and your vomit response does the rest.

I want to repeat this because as fatties, we're all afraid of stretching our stomachs. but they aren't changed that easily. Just as you can't really shrink your stomach unless you're starving to death and starvation is VERY advanced, you cannot stretch it. Before your stomach could ever be dangerously stretched or affected, it would pass any excess matter into the duodenum and down the small intestine.

So, vomit away! Your stomach is the boss here, not you. Have no fear!
But if it's not attached? How does it know to vomit? I'm talking RNY.
 
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