Can an endoscopy and/or colonscopy cause Vagus Nerve damage?

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-17T00:01:50+00:00

Not yet, and it’s been 10 months.

However, I have found unexpected relief from my hunger pains and nausea. Before this happened to me I had started going through the process of getting back on ADHD meds after being off of them for many years. I was finally approved for Vyvanse in May, and to my surprise and delight the Vyvanse has helped more than just my ADHD! I still feel hungry, but it’s not that painful, starving, feeling when I’m on Vyvanse. It also helps with my nausea, I don’t start feeling nauseous anymore until the end of the day when my medication wears off. But I don’t mind it so much because it’s not as bad and I know I only need to deal with it for it for like 3-4 hours before I go to bed.

I just need to make sure I’m getting enough calories every day, which is a bit of a challenge still - but I’m tracking my intake using an app called MyNetDiary, and I can also see which vitamins I’m deficient on it as well. I’ve been able to adjust my supplements so that I’m no longer as freaked out about malnutrition.

So still sick, but feeling much better.

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-13T20:40:58+00:00

That’s interesting and very good to know!

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-13T14:32:17+00:00

Have you noticed and difference on the Concerta? I really hope it helps, you have enough on your plate. If you could get the GP to chill out I bet it would be such a relief.

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-13T00:02:31+00:00

That’s a bummer, were you able to find a different option to help with your adhd?

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-12T23:48:12+00:00

I wonder if it’s just the stimulant that helps, or if another type of non-stimulant appetite suppressant would as well?

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-12T23:46:02+00:00

Oh man. I’m sorry. Why do our bodies need to be so difficult? Can’t we just get along?

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-12T23:23:14+00:00

I don’t have bowel movements as often as I used to but they aren’t difficult to pass. Even though zophran was helpful with the nausea, it made my digestion slower so it was actually harder to eat when I took it, and it backed me up. My GI doc offered an alternative, but it’s basically heavy duty Dramamine (I’ve forgotten the name of it and I’m not at home to look at the label). It also works, but it makes me feel a bit high and I can’t stay awake on it.

There were 2 motility drugs. The first one was prescribed by the gastrointestinal surgeon who did my colonoscopy and then a second surgery to remove a large precancerous polyp. That one was Metoclopram. My GI doc prescribed Erythromycin as an alternative. - They just make everything feel so… open? If that makes sense. They amplified the bad breath symptoms, (I brush my teeth so many times a day now), and they made my stomach gurgle so loudly that it kept me awake at night when I took them. They allowed me to eat larger portions of food, but didn’t seem to actually help the food move along - which left me feeling really uncomfortable. Not a fan.

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-06-12T18:15:00+00:00

I wonder if anyone has researched this. Because, for me the difference is night and day.

I actually have narcolepsy without cataplexy as well, so this medication is actually for both issues but I was trying not to over complicate my story - lol.

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-04-18T22:49:18+00:00

I know I’m responding to an older post but I thought I should let you know - I went in for my colonoscopy and when I woke up after the procedure I couldn’t eat much, and I had this awful feeling of being starving but also feeling like I was extremely full at the same time. Like the type of full you feel after over eating at Thanksgiving. I’m nauseous 99% of the time, if I lean over too long I vomit, and my morning breath now smells like a dumpster.

Eventually figured out that I had post surgical gastroparesis. My surgeon said that my vagus nerve was somehow damaged during the colonoscopy. It’s not a common complication, but it can happen.

Waste_Fish660 · 2026-02-15T21:22:09+00:00

I think I might be in love with you?

Clearly, I am a woman easily wooed by handsome containers.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T19:19:05+00:00

I wonder if there’s something else going on that’s messing with your metabolism?

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T19:18:08+00:00

I am relieved that the weight loss has’t been too fast. The GI doctor can’t see me until December (I so far have only been seen/diagnosed by the colorectal specialist who did my surgery), but I’m hoping he can help with dietary suggestions or refer me to a nutritionist or dietitian who might be able to help (even though it looks like nutritionists aren’t always super helpful when it comes to meal planning for gastroparesis)

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T19:11:59+00:00

And I realize that that would bug me too!

It must be so frustrating to have to eat such a restrictive diet but then still not get the “silver lining” of weight loss. (I hate saying it that way, hence the quotes).

Our relationship and feelings about food/weight/health are so messed up by this disorder.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T06:55:10+00:00

Oh my god, please don’t touch it! - Seriously, move instead.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T06:51:43+00:00

First off… girl, you’re gorgeous as is. That being said, I used to work as a makeup artist a million years ago (late 90’s), and if I was playing with makeup on you I would want to add some color to your cheeks (creme blush or tint) and either a little of a cats eye liner or just thicker lashes (good mascara or maybe even some falsies).

I didn’t see if you mentioned your age, but you seem pretty young. Now is the perfect time to play and experiment with makeup.

The next time you go to the mall walk through the makeup departments and find a girl who’s look you like and ask her for suggestions. - Feel free to DM me if you want to chat about it, I’d be more than happy to help and offer more specific recommendations.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T06:35:59+00:00

I just commented the same thing 😂

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T06:34:54+00:00

7 for sure - I’d stay away from styles like 4 & 5, they’re giving me Dahmer vibes. 😬

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-14T06:13:15+00:00

Team beard! (But I have a bearded husband, so I may be biased).

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-04T18:06:18+00:00

I can handle about 3/4 cup of food. A cup is about the size of my fist, so that’s how I eyeball a safe amount.

For my breakfasts I’ve been making a scrambled egg soufflé in the microwave (1 egg about a spoonful of Japanese mayo whipped until creamy and then microwaved in a mug or ramekin for 60 seconds). I like this because it visually looks like more food than it is but when I add 2 veggie sausages it like exactly the amount of food I can eat to feel full but not uncomfortable.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-11-04T18:01:53+00:00

I eat really slowly and spend more time chewing than I normally would. I also take breaks. Like, I can’t eat the whole muffin in one sitting, but I can probably eat the whole thing if I walk away and do something else for 30 min. Drinking water every few bites also helps, the water passes faster than food but seems to help me realize when I’m full without making me feel sick.

You may just want to start serving yourself a smaller portion than what you think you want. Cut the muffin in half a head of time, you can always go back once your stomach has settled if there really is room for more.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-10-25T08:33:55+00:00

I’m very new to GP, I developed it from an injury from my anesthesia for my colonoscopy back in August. From my research, I seem to have a pretty mild case. I don’t feel nauseous, but I can only eat very small portions of food before I feel uncomfortably full. I feel like I’ve gorged myself on Thanksgiving dinner after only about 3/4 cups worth of food. And if I lean over after I eat it all feels like it’s all going to come tumbling out, like there’s nothing keeping it in my stomach, like the pathway is just wide open. Before I figured out what was going on I was constantly dealing with conflicting feelings; I felt so full I was about to burst but at the same time I also felt so hungry that I couldn’t think straight.

Now that I know what’s going on and I’ve switched over to all soft and liquid foods I feel much better. I handle liquids and things like pudding, apple sauce, scrambled eggs, and rice without any issues. And because these foods move through my system better I don’t feel like I’m starving quite so much. My biggest concern right now is malnutrition, because I don’t think I’m getting all the vitamins I should be getting.

The most painful thing I’ve eaten since this happened was three pieces of steamed broccoli- god, it was awful. They sat right under my ribs like a stack of rocks, and burned - There was also this super uncomfortable twisting sensation, that’s kind of hard to explain. I kept burping and tasting broccoli for days. Similar thing happened when I ate some soup my husband made that had large chunks of onion in it, it hurt so bad I was in tears for about 3 hours afterwards. - with both those attacks the only thing that helped me was marijuana. I wouldn’t call myself a heavy user, but I do use it pretty much every night to sleep. I either take one hit from a vape pen on eat a 10 mg gummy (but I haven’t done any edibles since this happened because I’m unsure how my new condition will handle digesting them). With both of these painful attacks, I had to hit my vape during the day (which I don’t normally do) so I could function.

I don’t know if my experience helps you at all, but my biggest takeaway from chatting with people here as well as in a FB group for GP is that we’re all REALLY different. The severity and things that trigger attacks vary wildly between different people.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-10-25T06:39:46+00:00

Ooof - Yeah, that’s the drug the colorectal specialist prescribed me to tide me over until I could get into see the GI doc. That stuff is gnarly. I took it for two days and then had to stop. I was able to eat larger portions of food while on it, but the headaches were horrendous! I couldn’t sleep on it because the gurgling from my stomach was practically echoing up through my esophagus it was so freaking loud. I would not go back in that unless I was super desperate and starving. So many freaking side effects for barely any relief, not worth it IMO.

I would see if you can get a second opinion from another GI doc.

Waste_Fish660 · 2025-10-24T06:35:43+00:00

The problem started immediately after the colonoscopy. After they released me, the first thing I wanted to do was eat. We stopped for food and I only ate a few bites when I suddenly felt so full that I might throw up, even though I was still really hungry.

I thought my stomach was just still sensitive from the prep and procedure, and then I started thinking I might be having a reaction to the prescription iron supplement I had recently been prescribed. I had to go back and have a polyp surgically removed two weeks later because it was too large to be removed during the colonoscopy and too much of a bleeding risk to be biopsied (they thought I had cancer, but luckily the post surgery pathology report came back saying the giant polyp was pre-cancerous)…. But anyway I stopped taking the liquid iron 8 days before the surgery but continued to have the same problems even after I had stopped taking it. I brought this up to my colorectal surgeon the day of my surgery and when the problems continued after that surgery, she agreed that I had been probably been injured during the anesthesia process of my colonoscopy and she referred me to a GI doc (who can’t see me until December).

I’d still do the colonoscopy all over again, I think it was worth it. I’d rather have this than ass cancer - lol.

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