So this morning has been so unusual. I woke up at 9am made a cup of coffee at 9:30 with sugar free creamer and finished that at around a 11am had a cheese stick which went down fine...11:45 decided I needed just a lil bit more coffee today to fight the tiredness, literally took like maybe 5 sips of it and put it down. Started getting major stuck like feelings and super nauseous. Went to bathroom and for 10minutes dry heaved and burped??? Nothing came up...now still having chest pain and laying down feeling like I will be sick again if I move around too much. What Is this? I was banded 6/28 and had my first fill 7/25 although still hardly anything in band bc the doc as they were going to go super slow with me bc after surgery when I did swallow test the water wouldn't even pass through... Do I need to go to er?? Kinda scared it hurts bad in my chest and not sure how I could be stuck when I really didn't eat anything?!?

Whenever you can't get anything down, I think you are supposed to seek medical attention immediately, so either call the on-call number for your surgeon, or head to the hospital.

Ooh, can you get water down?

I drank a few sips and it went down... Just the chest pain/ nausea is still here

Coley, when you ate your cheese stick did you wait your time to drink any fluids? Did you chew chew chew that cheese and take breaks in between? Do you think you drank to fast after you ate the cheese? If you can still get fluids down you are more than likely having a 'stuck' episode. I seriously dread it and it scares me. I am in the mushy stage now and everything I eat is liquidy. I do drink very fast at times (well all the time) and so far (knock on wood) I have been okay.

I've heard many on here say try sipping pineapple juice or chewing Papya enzymes if you have a stuck episode. If its a really a bad stuck take a few sips of gingerale (very very tiny sips) you don't want to expand your pouch, supposedly the 'carbanation" works as an 'unplug" system. However, I would do that as your last resort if you still have that stuck feeling.

If you still feel this way, call up your surgeon...

Best of luck, keep us all posted!