Has anyone ever gotten food stuck? I feel like it's stuck in my throat. Is this normal??

I'm 7 wks out and last week I got food stuck. I think I took too big of a bite and I felt as though it was just stuck in my throat too. I ended up drinking a couple sips of water and it came back up. My dr said it can happen and that if you drink carbonation like a drink of coke or something- it hurts but it will either make it go down or come back up. Water did the trick for me though. Good luck!

Thanks! I'm 6 weeks out. Hopefully this water I'm drinking will make it go down.

It's normal, but uncomfortable. I learned that anytime I had "that feeling," what I just ate was going to come back up. I think it is often a part of the learning curve of knowing how slowly and how much you have to chew. Oh, and some people say that papaya enzyme tablets help un-stick things. I have tried it with some success.

Thank you! I will have to try that!

Im 3 months out and it still happens , mainly when im introducing new food . start small and chew. keep a list of what works and what doesn't.

Either way you wont forget it . some foods for me that suck and get stuck are

salad greens ( horrible feeling )

Watermellon

Tortillas

Bananas

stay away from anything the is "dry"

So far everything else seems to be moving along . my Surgeon say try them in 4 more weeks . I did and they still dont woirk ...oh well

RJ

Thank you!!!

I started having this happen about the two month mark and thought it was normal and was something I was doing wrong. I mentioned it in passing at my 2 month checkup and as a precaution, my surgeon ordered an upper GI. I could pass liquids fine, but I couldn't pass the barium pill which was 12 mm in diameter. It turned out I had a stricture -- a totally normal part of the healing process which I wasn't too worried about. It took two EDG's to inflate the area so it would stay and my anastomosis had closed to 3 mm. I'm glad I brought it up and stopped blaming myself for the fact that I was eating wrong - taking too big of bites, not chewing food enough, or eating the wrong foods.

Since then I've had no issues and am very happy that we got it taken care of. Good luck to you!

I started having this happen about the two month mark and thought it was normal and was something I was doing wrong. I mentioned it in passing at my 2 month checkup and as a precaution, my surgeon ordered an upper GI. I could pass liquids fine, but I couldn't pass the barium pill which was 12 mm in diameter. It turned out I had a stricture -- a totally normal part of the healing process which I wasn't too worried about. It took two EDG's to inflate the area so it would stay and my anastomosis had closed to 3 mm. I'm glad I brought it up and stopped blaming myself for the fact that I was eating wrong - taking too big of bites, not chewing food enough, or eating the wrong foods.

Good point. The people I have talked to who have had a stricture have gotten pretty sick, one could not drink Water without it coming up. It can be hard to tell if it is a one time thing or a problem.

I'm 7 wks out and last week I got food stuck. I think I took too big of a bite and I felt as though it was just stuck in my throat too. I ended up drinking a couple sips of Water and it came back up. My dr said it can happen and that if you drink carbonation like a drink of coke or something- it hurts but it will either make it go down or come back up. Water did the trick for me though. Good luck!

Drinking works for me too. I couldn't seem to bring the food up when it got 'stuck'. I've been suffering through it, sometimes for 3-5 hours. The last bad one I had (lasted over five hours) and I was so thirsty that I tried to drink and that made the food come up almost immediately. It was a revelation! Now if the feeling doesn't clear itself up within one hour I drink water and up it comes. :-)