I had my first fill on Monday. I was supposed to be on liquids for 48 hours and I was starving last night. I looked at the list I had from my post-op diet and low fat cheese was on there so I grabbed a string cheese. I was happily eating it while watching Biggest Loser last night and WHAM. It was stuck. I thought my chest was going to EXPLODE. Holy crap it hurt. I think the problem was I wasn't paying attention to the food, and was watching the show instead and didn't chew enough or ate too fast. Man - that was painful! Ouch! Needless to say I didn't eat another bite.

Ouch! I had bread get stuck in the beginning, before my first fill. My Doctor told me to try it so I knew what I could and could not tolerate with my band. I have since tried bread toasted with no problem.

Once it happens, you do not want it to happen again at all....

I have had string cheese with no problem as of yet,(knock on wood, lol) I'm going to think twice now and chew...lol

I had a piece of roast beef wrapped around string cheese get stuck on me. Same situation, wasn't paying attention, took too big of a bite and didn't chew it well enough. Needless, to say I pay much more attention to what and how I'm eating now, especially after a fill as that changes everything and things that may have worked before the fill, may not work after.

Important to remember, if you get stuck, do NOT try to wash it down with anything! It does not help and will probably just come back up on you. Also, if you have a major stick, do not eat anything else the rest of the day. Stick with liquids as the stuck food irritates the stoma and can cause temporary swelling. Keep pineapple juice or chewable papaya enzyme tablets on hand. Both aid in decomposition of food and help it get through the band. SIP the pineapple juice in very small amounts. Also, I have read where walking, stretching and/or bouncing will help the food get through.

Actually I am starting to wonder if I am too tight or something as I am sitting here trying to eat oatmeal (and really, how much can you CHEW oatmeal?) and it is hurting off and on. I am taking small bites, but some are painful. Hopefully SOME of the swelling will go down a little. I REALLY need some restriction - but ouch! I guess I am just now learning what it means to be banded since that was my first fill.

My dr. told me to be on two days of 2 days of liquids/2 days of mushies/ 2 days of soft solids after a fill.

Is this what everyone tries to do?:confused2:

Actually I am starting to wonder if I am too tight or something as I am sitting here trying to eat oatmeal (and really, how much can you CHEW oatmeal?) and it is hurting off and on. I am taking small bites, but some are painful. Hopefully SOME of the swelling will go down a little. I REALLY need some restriction - but ouch! I guess I am just now learning what it means to be banded since that was my first fill.

Oatmeal is about as much as I can tolerate in the morning. Anything more than that and forget it. So it might be that you're just tighter in the morning!

I can eat a LOT at dinner, but I'm trying not to feel too bad about that because my band is super tight at Breakfast and lunch.

This is what i was talking about the other day on here. I know what you mean on the pain, i compared it to labor pains. and it was about 3 days after my fill, then the 4th day and on the 5th day it was stuck for 1 hour and 15 minutes! The pain was in waves from bad to horrid. i'm on Prilosec 2 times a day for a week to heal it. I leaned and stretched back as far as i could in my dining room chair and after a bunch of times this made it unstick. it hurt so bad i couldn't even bend over and try and puke.

Office slave be careful after the fill. They said i was extra sensitve also and the stoma swells way up for a while and to double the time everyone else does on liquids and mushies. I'm hungry too. lol

Jeanie