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I just need someone to answer this question please about "getting stuck".



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Last night I was craving carbs, so I decided that I would try bread for the first time in two months! I ate toasted whole wheat bread with a PB&J spread. I was being greedy and careless, and all the sudden I got the famous "golf ball feeling" that is always being talk about. I couldn't get the bread to go down or up. It just parked itself in the middle, and I had to wait 5 minutes for it to pass.

Today my band feels really tight and I haven't wanted to eat anything. I have been drinking Protein Drinks instead. I was wondering if this "day-after-tightness-feeling" is normal? I suspect that it is, but because I have never had it happen I thought I would check with the experts. (You know to ease my mind.)

If this has happened to you; when did the tightness go away? Did you wait to eat? I will wait to eat until I feel better just to be safe, but if someone could shed some light on this- it would be appreciated.

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I've never been stuck or PB'ed but since no one else has answered ...

Most people say they do become irritated after, depending on how bad the episode was, and stick to liquids or soft foods for a day or two after.

Sounds like what you are experiencing is totally normal.

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I had one "stuck" episode that kept me on soups/mushes for about 2 weeks. Normally after a stuck or pb, I stick to liquids for the rest of the day and start the next with soft/mushes and see how I feel by supper time. I just try and make sure that I don’t push it too soon.

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When this happens I PRIME THE PUMP....meaning I drink Fluid quickly...and alot.

It will spew up -no harm- and may loosen the stuck food.

Has worked for me everytime.

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Wow, when I get stuck, drinking works the opposite for me. It makes everything much worse and causes me a ton of pain!

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Wow- Be happy it only lasted for 5 minutes. I've had it worse. You feel yucky the next day- but just do what your body tells you to do. You can'y go wrong. If you crave bread in the future- the Hawaiian bread goes down pretty easily. Wheat bread binds really bad.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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