Ok, I am 7 weeks post of and on regular foods. I have only been stuck once but I have never PB'd or slimed as of yet.

I have been eating chicken, very tender beef and other meats with no problems until this evening.

I ate some scrambled up ground beef with ketchup for supper (sloppy joe if you will) I may have eaten it a little fast but I really don't think so. After an hour passed I began drinking my green tea and it was going down fine no problems at all. Then I started feeling like there was something caught in my throat, not the golf ball feeling I got when I was stuck, nor any of the chest pain like before, just like something in my throat.

I panic fairly easy and since I kept swallowing and it wasn't going away, I started getting anxious. I kept drinking my drink thinking I may be able to get it to go on down but no luck. So now I am just trying to not panic and wondering what the hell is going on. I got up and ran some hot Water to sip on to see if that would clear it up, but that didn't work either. Well it feels like it has moved on down a little and really not so much in the middle of my throat now but at the base. I got up and started moving around trying to move it, anything to get it down or up.

I then began remembering reading here somewhere that some people have experienced PB well afer they have eaten for not explainable reason, so I thought maybe this is a PB in progress and I just can't get it up or down. I hadn't thought of this before but I really have very little to almost non exixstant gag reflex. I then stared thinking what am I going to do if it is a PB and I can't get it up????

I opened up a can of warm pineapple juice and have been sipping on it for over an hour now and it is going down fine. All I have been able to do is belch, a lot and it seems to have helped it move a little, but now I do have pain between my right collar bone and top of my right breast????? At the momemt I am still sipping pineapple and belching but I am miserable and I haven't read anywhere on here symptoms quite like these. I was just needing some input as to what I am actually experiencing. Am I stuck, do I just have a huge gas bubble or a fart crossways, I mean GEEZ, I know the band is finicky bitch but what the flip did I do???? I sure do NOT want to do it again. I am just trying to work through it right now and trying VERY hard not to panic but it is very hard and I know I won't get any help immediately from this board since its late but any advice would be appreciated at any time.

I know this sounds dreadfully silly, but I even went in an kissed my DH and my sweet dog goodbye as I feel like this is not going to pass or get better and I might panic to death!!! How is that for a big baby?? Well if you don't get an update from me then you will know I didn't make it!

honestly, i think you're gonna be just fine. I don't know what's causing it, but I do recall having weird stuff like that happening for the first couple of months post-op. If it doesn't subside, I'd call the surgeon's office and leave a message for whoever's on call (my doc is always on call...he's such a sweetie). Better safe than sorry.

I'm sure you haven't done anything wrong or messed anything up but do check with your surgeon if it doesn't go away.

My expereince with ground beef has not been a good one and I completely avoid it - not worth the bother. I don't know why because I have no problem with other meats.

Anyway, be patient and try to relax. It should pass.

You may have irritated yourself with the meat. I love ground meat, but I find it very hard to get down. I had a siege with some mashed potatoes that left me in dire pain for about 2.5 hours just after I went on solids. I couldn't believe that something that soft could cause a problem. Maybe I ate it a little fast thinking it would just slide down. At any rate, be VERY VERY careful with trying to wash down things with liquid. It does NOT work like it did pre-band, even tiny sipping. You are really probably better off to just let everything sit. You could also get some papaya enzyme (there is some stuff on line called Clear Ease) that is taken as a pill and left to dissolve in your cheek. However, since you said that the liquids went down fine, it just sounds to me like the lining was irritated with the meat (like havig a sore throat but lower).... good luck!

Update: I still have no idea what it was, but it was gone by 10:30 when I went to bed. Whatever it was kept slowly moving down from my throat to my chest and then all I felt was some pressure in the chest area. I ended up drinking the whole can of pineapple juice with no problems, but would belch a lot after each sip, which seemed to help. My DH said I just had a bubble/fart crossways (his standard answer for all that ails me, lol)

I have not had any fills and won't have my first one until the 28th of this month after being banded Sept 28th. I still do not eat a lot and I still get full very fast, but I am not exercising as of yet and I haven't been on the scales but all my too tight clothes now fit again so I know I have lost weight.

I have eaten the sloppy joe mixture before and never have had problems with it. I still don't understand what it was but I am very thankful it has gone away! Thank you all for you responses and advice, I highly regard it. I hope everyone in bandster land has a joyous, thankful and blessed Thanksgiving! I for one am very thankful for this board, it has been salvation many many times for me.

OMG I have been experiencing the same thing for the past 3 days and it doesn't hurt but it id very very annoying .....I feel like there is something in my throat and it moves up and down I try to make myself vomit but nothing comes up.....I noticed something in your post that I can relate to....DRINKING THE DIET GREEN TEA.....do u think that;s the problem I am so nervous because why the hell isn't whateveer is in my throat passed by now ...I AM SCARED ...PLEASE HELP

I right there with you since yesterday morning, I eat a yogourt I think I have a cherry piece stuck in my troat, and it wont go down, sometimes it comes up but not enough, I can still drink, eat, but that damn thing is always there... My surgeon never told me what to do if something like this would happen to me, I just don't know what to do.