Day 3 after my surgery and things have been going quite well, up until just now. I was making my son some linguine and was testing to see if the noodles were done and without thinking I took 2 bites and swallowed one almost whole... a few minutes later I could feel things were not right and then thought to myself, did I just eat that??? So far, so good, I'm uncomfortable but I have not thrown up yet (i hope I don't).

Clearly I'm going to have to be more careful when doing routine things like this. At least I know my band is holding things back

Me to. I have gotten food stuck 3 days in a row now because I cant seem to slow down my chewing and eating. Its just such a habit for me and I just forget....Its a whole new life and we just gotta start over and learn things from scratch....

Me to. I have gotten food stuck 3 days in a row now because I cant seem to slow down my chewing and eating. Its just such a habit for me and I just forget....Its a whole new life and we just gotta start over and learn things from scratch....

This is the "Learning Curve". You have to learn new eating habits. For me it was the hard way, getting stuck many times before I started to finally get it. Now I can glance at food and know what is safe and what is off limits. Also, there are foods that are off limits to me, but I read here from many other people who eat the same foods with no problem. You just have to learn foir yourself as you get more restriction in the band and head towards the green zone.

Oh, yes, that mindless popping something in your mouth can be VERY disastrous. Its easy to be mindful when you sit down to eat a meal, but much easier to not think about popping something in your mouth and just swallowing it.

I got into major trouble with a Calcium pill yesterday, dont normally have trouble, but it just went down a bit wrong and all day I had a very sharp pain at my band with every swallow of even liquid. thankfully its gone today.

Yep ! you must be careful.. you don't want to mess anything up being newly banded.

As far as pills or Meds. I try to get it all in liquid form or chewable. Or crush or split it.

This seems to work for me