Hi there guy,s,

I hope you can help either way.

I was banded 2 1/2 weeks ago and things are progressing well,Most of the pain and discomfort has subsided.

Very Very late Last night i had a small piece of deep fried battered fish , which was the best. ( Yes i know im a dickhead cause im still on liquids )Coincidently today intermittently i have a discomfort in the middle of my chest / belly area and small pains in my shoulder blade area . Or if i take a deep breath i can also feel this.

All else is well , im back on the liquids and drinking seems normal as such.

DO I HAVE A PARTIAL BLOCKAGE or is this just another stage of the pain process.

If it could be a partial blockage, what is a home made recipe which may

help before i,m forced to front my surgeon.

Mark:)

Mark, I hope things are better by now, if not you should ring your surgeon right away. Its too soon for you to be doing anything about unblocking, your surgery was only two weeks ago, you are still healing and should not be pb-ing, or it could cause a slippage or other damage.

Being on liquids doesn't make one a "dickhead".

Do call your surgeon.

Pain in the shoulderblade could be gas. When I'm stuck I feel pain between my shoulderblades, aligned with my spine, but not the shoulderblades themselves but that doesn't mean you will be the same. I definitely feel it more when I take a deep breath.

Have you had any excessive salivating?

Please do call your surgeon. If nothing else, it's peace of mind.

Hi~

I am going to copy/paste what happened to me last summer:

Last Thursday while on vacation with my family I PB'd part of a crab cake and portabella mushroom. It was the first time I'd ever had a really rough PB so I stuck to liquids the next day. Well, I didn't feel very good and it felt like liquids were just barely getting down. Saturday morning I took my kids blueberry picking and only ate a couple of blueberries b/c I still didn't feel that great.

Well, things started to get worse and I just felt like garbage. I couldn't keep anything down except water and at that point thought I must've damaged the band or was very very swollen.

I came here and read alot of stories about people having to drink warm tea, do liquids for a # of days etc and thought that was going to happen to me too.

Well, Monday night I started to spit up my own spit and gave my surgeon a call at home. He told me to either head to the ER or come see him at 8am the following morning. I decided to hold tight and saw him at 8AM yesterday. He brought me down for an Upper GI and the radiologist and him told me that there was an obstruction and showed me the pictures. My surgeon told me I needed a complete unfill and that should take care of it. I had an unfill and when they took my temp it was 102 and my blood pressure was quite high. So, after the fill I was admitted and started on fluids. I was also scheduled for a scope later that day to make sure that the band was really alright.

So, yesterday afternoon I was put out for the scope and when I came to I was told that a blueberry had lodged itself in my esophagus and was causing all of the problems. My band is just fine and now that I can drink again, so am I. I had to stay in the hospital overnight b/c of dehydration and the fever (which is gone now).

Basically, he thinks my PB irritated my esophagus and then that blueberry just got stuck at the wrong place at the wrong time. So, beware of blueberries my friends.

I am on full liquids for a week and then mushies for a week and can get my fill back in 4 weeks.

Now fast forward to 2 months later and I am FINALLY getting my fill on Friday due to insurance problems.

Anyway, get this checked out b/c things can go downhill fast like it did for me. But, my problem was easily solved once they got the blueberry out.

Good luck,

Julie