So let me begin by saying I am 10 months in and never been stuck enough to throw up. Yay me. On Saturday I had a couple of teaspoons of potato salad. (yeah i know bad choice). About two hours later I got the worse pain in my upper back. Never did I think I was stuck...I could still drink water slowly. By the end of Saturday early Sunday I was dying with nausea and back pain. Still I can drink a little at a time. All this time I am thinking food poisoning even though no one else was sick. Monday morning I vomited a little bit but still could not eat and felt horrible. By the end of Monday night my husband is going nuts and says you gotta call your doctor its not food poisoning. Page the doctor who tells me yep your stuck stop eating and drinking come see me in the morning. I couldn't make it through the night. I call the local er and they tell me yep we can take some fluid out. I get there and sit for 31/2 hours to find out the er doctor has no idea what to do. Well needless to say we left and drove to my doctors office were he met me early before surgery. I had 3cc taken out of the 9.5cc in band. Was able to drink just fine in office on Tuesday. Get home try a protein shake and some soup no go. Right back to nausea and back pain. I had to get up early this morning and drive back to have my band totally deflated for 2 weeks. YIKES!!! On my own with no restriction. Plus Im going to New Orleans this Friday. Just had to tell someone who understood what Im going through. Only plus in all of this is I lost 4lbs. To bad that was not the way I wanted to lose it.

If it was a stuck episode, Its fluids for 3 days, then mushies for a day, then try food. That usually works.

But if you eat food before that, you could swell back up.

Shirley.