Yesterday, I was eating a small piece of salmon at a restaurant with my family. I was enjoying their company & didn't chew a piece well enough before swallowing. Suddenly I had that all too familiar feeling of being stuck, like when I was banded. It hurt really bad. I excused myself and made it to restroom just in time before it came up. I was fine. Anyone former LapBander have this happen?

Hi Kajun,

Yes I have had this happen to me, it was very painful. I just felt the need to throw it up - I hadnt thrown up since I had the band removed (6 months prior to sleeve, Nov '13). As we know with banding a 'PB' comes up without having to do much. But man, it was so difficult to bring back up and felt more like a vomit then anything else. It hurt, so I want to avoid that now and try not to let my head hunger get bigger than my new little stomach hunger.... good luck!

You have to treat this as a sleever would now. And this is very common. A week ago I was all worked up over something and did not chew my food as much as I should have. The same thing happened to me but I could not throw it up It just laid there until I could drink some Water and it worked its way down.. We will always have the clear and unmistakable signs that we did something wrong...Hope the Salmon was good...I love fish myself now!

Yesterday, I was eating a small piece of salmon at a restaurant with my family. I was enjoying their company & didn't chew a piece well enough before swallowing. Suddenly I had that all too familiar feeling of being stuck, like when I was banded. It hurt really bad. I excused myself and made it to restroom just in time before it came up. I was fine. Anyone former LapBander have this happen?

I'm not a former bander but this happens to me here and there for no reason I can ascertain. Ugh.

Hi Kajun,

Yes I have had this happen to me, it was very painful. I just felt the need to throw it up - I hadnt thrown up since I had the band removed (6 months prior to sleeve, Nov '13). As we know with banding a 'PB' comes up without having to do much. But man, it was so difficult to bring back up and felt more like a vomit then anything else. It hurt, so I want to avoid that now and try not to let my head hunger get bigger than my new little stomach hunger.... good luck!

Exactly. I didn't hafta do anyting to bring food back up with my band - just bend over and up it came. Now, if I eat too much/too fast, it takes much work, sweat, and dissapointment trying to get it out. I've vomited maybe 3x in the past 10 mths becuz it's so much harder. I think I may miss this a little (sounds crazy, I know) but I knew that if I ate 1 bite too much, I could get it back out quickly. Now it's almost impossible. Just hafta ride it out.

Good luck!

I came down with a stomach bug friday night, I thought it was a reaction to taking my Vitamins on an empty stomach, I just wasn't hungry so I skipped dinner. I was up dry heaving all night. I would have been in panic mode with my band, for fear of slipping. I was calm and took my zofran and laid down. It passed but holy moly was I hurting when the dry heaves started. I haven't really had any vomiting issues since surgery. I've had a bite too much and felt really full but this was intense. I know now it was a stomach bug because my poor daughter has it today. Glad it was only like a 12 hour thing, and she should feel better quickly.