can anyone help with my worry. I was banded in october and everything seems fine. Although this last week or 2 i seem to be feeling like the food is going to get stuck but then the feeling passes? i have not bn sick for a couple of weeks. i sometimes feel a little feeling of it maybe going to get stuck but then it passes? what could this be? please help if u can as i am very worried sometimes when i try to burp i can sometimes feel the food still there?

Sometimes my band tightens when i'm stress. During TOM..or sick..could any of these be the culprit?

You have to chew your food so fine so that you won't feel this "stuck" feeling. It happens to me from time to time to. Chew chew chew and you'll be fine.

Feeling that it might get stuck? But does it get stuck? If it's not stuck, why worry over it?

I'm in the green zone and stuck is with me 3-4 days a week. Still struggling with eating slower, eating smaller and choosing food my band may like on any given day.

tmf

If you have been stuck before then I think you get stuck leary, and the stress of that worry builds. I was stuck over a Holiday weekend could not get it up ended up with an unfill to let it pass that was crazy .

IF you are chewing chewing and not eating huge amts you should be fine. If in doubt go on liquids for a few days and see if the feeling goes away... Blend your food see if that stops the feeling. Sometimes it can just be in your head after a stuck incident. Good Luck

i am worrying that i may have a slip as it gives me a feeling that it is stuck but the feeling goes away i am worrying why the food feels stuck but is getting down

Nothing wrong.

That is what life is going to be like from now on.

It means:

1) you ate something that you should not.

I have this problem when I try to eat a french fry or white bread. It has been long enough now so that I can eat 4 or 5

French fries, as long as I chew it with lettuce for vegetables before I swallow it. The food that you find that you can just

never eat varies by person.

2) You did not chew thoroughly enough.

3) You ate too fast.

It still takes discipline to eat what you should. I can have a taco salad from my local Mexican restaurant, and have no problems at all, .. and eat a larger portion of it than I expect o.

I can eate a piece of pizza as long as I chew it very slowly, and chew with a few pieces of lettuce before I swallow. At one point I actually ordered a pizza on a cold winter day, tired, no groceries in the house. I was able to eat one piece of pizza out of it, and froze the rest individually. When I reheated it, it did not stay down.

I defrosted it at room temperature, and reheated it at a high degree of heat in my oven, but did not work. I don;t understand that, but .... I don't order pizza. Pizza is truly a treat under the right circumstances, nice and hot, not leftover, etc.

Now that it has been a few years, I find that I am going back to what I ate before, which is higher in carbs. I have whole grain, no sugar Cereal with unsweetened soy for Breakfast. Much higher in carbs than the Meal Replacement beverage.

I feel like this is the downfall of the whole "let's get banded" craze. ... folllow up afterward.

It would be grand to discuss what is appropriate to eat, and what is not appropriate to eat in this forum.

Hi Debbie,

Maybe you should speak to your surgeon about your concern. I have read about this 'stuck' feeling a lot on here and many of the bandsters give very good advice. However, with saying that if you 'think' something is terribly wrong you should address so you can get answers from your surgeon for peace of mind. I have read some people saying that a few sips of gingerale helps when they get 'stuck'. Some chew on papaya enzymes and swears that works. Some even say sips of pineapple juice can work too. It doesn't hurt to try these methods. I have all 3 of these items 'just in case'. I want to be so ready.

Keep us updated on your progress and if that 'stuck feeling has gone away.

-Patty

Please call your surgeon! If you are " very worried and think something is wrong" you need to contact your doctor...please. None of us know how YOU are feeling. Good luck!

I agree with the ladies above, if you are "worried and think something is really wrong", you need to be contacting your surgeon not posting here. We're not surgeons and any advice you get here is strictly guesses and opinions.

I agree with the ladies above, if you are "worried and think something is really wrong", you need to be contacting your surgeon not posting here. We're not surgeons and any advice you get here is strictly guesses and opinions.

totalaly agree