So once you do get that dreaded stuck feeling where you struggle to swallow, feel everything come up & down in your esophagus & even sometimes feel chest pain, what do you do to get rid of that feeling??

Please give complete details of how you got unstuck and/or how you overcame that awful feeling.....

Sounds crazy, but to get unstuck, do the "chicken dance" on your left side and it might help work it through. This is advice from a more experienced bander- I haven't tried it personally, but I've heard it works.

I find burping and deep breathing helps me. As long as i'm feeling pressure. I've only had food stuck...and I mean really stuck. For that I had to spit up the food. I didn't really throw up. Just had to wait for it to come up on its own.

I found standing up, walking, breathing deeply and raising my arms above my head moved it along.

All of cakegirl's suggestions plus drinking something hot helps me alot. Just tiny sips or everything may come flying back up. I've never tried the "chicken dance" though! lol

First thing I do is stop eating! Put the fork down, and then just wait. Sometime, eventually it will go away.

A sign that it is a major blockage, is I will start with the hic-cups. It's then I know it is major. Next come the slime.

When you are stuck, nothing is going to pass through the band into the stomach. Sliming is a build up of saliva, having no where to go. It also adds to the volume in your pouch, above the band. Eventually you will have to spit this all up so the saliva is a natural way of clearing any blockages.

But waiting can take some time.

To speed it up, all you need to do is add to the volume in your pouch. Not solids, that would be painful.

If I want to get it done fast, I go to the bathroom, stand over the sink and sip some Water. The water has nowhere to go, and will come right back up, hopefully bringing what is stuck with it. May have to do this a few time till you get at the primary problem.

ALLLLLLLLL my friends know about my chicken dance. Or the pocahontas dance as my partner calls it, coz the first time he saw it, I was wearing two long plaits on either side of my head, was wearing shorts and ugg boots and doing what he reckons looked like a rain dance in our lounge room. I kinda do this hoppy walk in circles and lift my arms up and down, and this often helps to move the food down. It sounds crazy but it does work a lot of the time.

And no I won't be you-tubing a demonstration!

I need to see a u-tube of this dance!!! I don't get it..

Lol I agree we need a utube demo of your chicken dance with the ugs lmao! But seriously thanks for allt the great advice. Yeah from the sounds of it I had a major stuck episode & did the whoever slime thing lol. Now I know what to do cuz what I ended up doing at the time was having one of my nurse coworkers do a temporary unfill of 2cc then once it passed put the 2cc back in. Yes I know that was crazy but I was at work in some major discomfort & pain.

I told my hubby that I no longer have to worry because I have this great support system of friends here that can help me with ANYTHING band related & faster than my surgeon too. Lol thanks again