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What To Do When Food Gets Stuck?

What to do when food gets stuck? I ate this morning and it feels like its still there!! Stuck right in my chest area!! Should I go vomit!! I can't take this feeling!!! HELP!!!

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  • Short and Chunky
    Short and Chunky

    I have gotten stuck - several times - and hot liquid (tea), pineapple juice and pills don't help me. Too Stuck for anything to go through. I slime, PB and then god willing, throw it up. The pain hu

  • Cocoabean
    Cocoabean

    Slime is the mucous the body generates trying to help the stuck item go down. It is very thick and clingy. When it cannot go down, it comes up..you cannot swallow it, so you must spit it out. Once the

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What is sliming?

When food gets stuck the body secretes mucus to help it go down, since its stuck already, it just makes it worse and won't stop until the blockage is gone.

It's also known a as pb (productive burping). If you want a sense of what is like, look up the hag fish on YouTube

Ignore this post, for some reason it double posted

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Yes, when I get stuck, I try walking first, then I will PB if necessary. I do not go out to eat very often for this very reason, but truth be told it is my own fault when it happens. When I do go out to eat, I usually order soup or a baked potato or a crab cake, things I know won't get stuck. This is not for the faint of heart!

I walk or sit up very straight. I've never slimed or pb.

Omg . Banded 2 1/2 months now and having my first episode. I'm sliming ! It is disgusting. So uncomfortable.

EVERY Time I Have Gotten Stuck, I sip Hot coffee, it opens Me Up & The food Passes!

Best of Luck!

I thought I was going to die 8 food too soon and too fast. But I'll be hungry like I never had been done what do you think you could be

Omg . Banded 2 1/2 months now and having my first episode. I'm sliming ! It is disgusting. So uncomfortable.

Not sure if I want to know, but could you inform me about what sliming is?

Read more pages of this thread and now know want sliming is!

LOL! Sliming is NOT pretty, but I sure do feel better when it comes up!

I would like to know what is slimming

Read fight4light's post 10 posts up.
  • 11 months later...

I've had my band for 3 years and food still gets stuck. I'm having it adjusted again. I lost only 20 lbs. Very disappointed with the band.

I've had my band for 3 years and food still gets stuck. I'm having it adjusted again. I lost only 20 lbs. Very disappointed with the band.

Have you been going in for regular followup Dr visits and what does the Dr say?

What to do when food gets stuck? I ate this morning and it feels like its still there!! Stuck right in my chest area!! Should I go vomit!! I can't take this feeling!!! HELP!!!

. I find walking around And not drinking helps , throwing up prob won't help as the food is a fair way down . Sounds awful but sometimes burping helps .

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