Just wondering---Has anyone's child/infant have a pyloraplasty and NOT have dumping syndrome????

Maggie did have dumping but when I told that to the surgeon on Friday he was shocked to the point that he called the GI that did her surgery over 2 yrs ago. He said it wasn't the norm but I was led to believe it was....

How long did it take to resolve?

About 4 weeks I think. It was over 2 yrs ago so I don't remember exactly.

When it resolved, was it completely or does she still have lingering symptoms?

Justin had his pyloroplasty just done over 4years ago. He initialy had dumping for the first several weeks but then it resolved itself.

Today he still has delays that were not corrected by the surgery so he now has problems of constipation and dumping at times.


Melanie

Chelsea alternated between constipation and diarreah and it was only after her fundo that she got the diarreah part. She did not have a pyloraplasty--the fundo just changed her motility I think.

Do you think Justin's problems now are a result of the surgery (did the surgery complicate the issue because sometimes he dumps instead of just being constipated)? Or do you think that he still has the underlying motility issues that the surgery did not completely help?

That reminds me of another question I had--if kids with DGE also have delayed movement in the intestine--doesn't a pyloraplasty only intended to help the delay in movement from the stomach? What about the delay through the intestine?

We had some dumping sydrome as well and still do at times, but from what I understand the system just has to work itself out and it corrects itself and adjusts over time. This was definitely true with E and happens less often.

Noah needed a pyloraplasty performed after his 2nd fundo due to 0 gastric emptying after an almost 3 hour emptying scan. Noah was diagnosed with complete gastroparesis 3 months after his pyloraplasty was performed and then again a year later.

Didn't the 0 emptying occur after they put the mesh through his vagas nerve? I thought I remembered you saying that he had total gastroparesis after that happened.

Yes, they stitched the sis mesh through his vagus and took days for them to believe us that there was something wrong. He wasn't given the final diagnosis of paresis for months afterwards as there was still hope he would overcome it.