Need some help please

Devana · September 4, 2006

The good digestive enzyme tablets contain amylase for carbs, protease for Proteins and lipase for fats. Perhaps if this happens again you could chew one of those up. They are often (but not always) helpful for people with reflux problems and I would imagine they would be helpful in this case. I'm keeping some handy in the event it happens to me.

diva · September 4, 2006

Hi,

Day 2 and still (slightly) stuck. I am calling the doc tomorrow if there is no further improvement. Thanks everyone! It has mellowed out a bit, still not in pain but I still feel it. I am on liquids with no problems, tried hot tea and pureed some bean with bacon Soup because I am hungry. It went down fine. I am gurgling and occasionally burping but not productively. I have taken the papaya enzyme tablets, walked, stretched, held my breath, slept all night on my left side, did the hokie pokie and I turned myself around. Thats what its all about.

Bettina · September 4, 2006

The good digestive enzyme tablets contain amylase for carbs, protease for Proteins and lipase for fats. Perhaps if this happens again you could chew one of those up. They are often (but not always) helpful for people with reflux problems and I would imagine they would be helpful in this case. I'm keeping some handy in the event it happens to me.

I'm game, what is it called?:welldoneclap:

Bettina · September 4, 2006

Hi,
Day 2 and still (slightly) stuck. I am calling the doc tomorrow if there is no further improvement. Thanks everyone! It has mellowed out a bit, still not in pain but I still feel it. I am on liquids with no problems, tried hot tea and pureed some bean with bacon Soup because I am hungry. It went down fine. I am gurgling and occasionally burping but not productively. I have taken the papaya enzyme tablets, walked, stretched, held my breath, slept all night on my left side, did the hokie pokie and I turned myself around. Thats what its all about.

Awww...poor girl, sounds like a call to the doc would be a good idea. Did anyone witness the hokie pokie???:guess

Leila · September 4, 2006

papaya enzyme - papain, is a protease, so it is only capable of breaking down peptide bonds in protiens. Enzymes are very specific, they only target certain things.

amylase – breaks down carbs, starch, and sugars. Specifically, lactase – breaks down lactose (milk sugars); diastase – digests vegetable starch; sucrase – complex sugars and starches; maltase – digests disaccharides to monosaccharides (malt sugars); invertase – breaks down sucrose (table sugar); glucoamylase – breaks down starch to glucose; alpha-glactosidase – facilitates digestion of Beans, legumes, seeds, roots, and soy.

protease – breaks down Proteins found in meats, nuts, eggs, and cheese. Specifically, pepsin – breaks down Proteins into peptides; peptidase – breaks down small peptide proteins to amino acids; trypsin – derived from animal pancreas, breaks down proteins; alpha – chymotrypsin, an animal-derived enzyme, breaks down proteins; bromelain – derived from pineapple, breaks down a broad spectrum of proteins; papain – derived from raw papaya, works well breaking down small and large proteins.

lipase – breaks down fats found in most dairy products, nuts, oils, and meat.

cellulase – breaks down cellulose, plant Fiber.

I think that's all of them!

For carbs/fiber beano is your best bet. Or you can buy enzyme blends in most health food stores. If gas is an issue with you enzyme supplementing can help big time too.

diva · September 4, 2006

Call me a bisquit and butter my bottom. I am officially unstuck!!!! Yes Ladies and Gentlemen I am free, free at last! How did I do it you ask? I ate dinner! After 2 days of hot tea (green, cinammon, lemon, Earl Grey, etc. etc) and almost an entire bottle of Papaya Enzymes (tastes sorta like Pez & you get at GNC), sleeping on left (which is totally alien to me-I vote left, I don't sleep left), stretching from 5' 2" to professional basketball player size, holding my breath till I almost turned blue-I gave up. I surrendered. I put up a white flag on my golfball. My DH made some stew, I cut up some teeny tiny eensy weensy piece of fatty meat (you heard me fatty-nature's lube) and mushy wushy carrots and squishy squashy potatos and had about a half a cup. And the golfball was gone.

Can I hear an AMEN!

p.s. Thanks to all