What does full feel like? Is it a different feeling from before surgery? I have had three fills and what I feel when I eat is pain and my mouth becomes full of water. I mean severe pain. I can't talk and it comes back up. Chicken is the worst! Sometimes I get the pain two bites into the meal or half way or almost done. There is no rhyme or reason to it. I feel like each meal is different. Is this pain the new full??? I sometimes feels like I swallowed a whole bunch of air.

Well...seems to me that you are either taking bites that are too big or not being chewed enough. What you are feeling is not normal, it is the symptom of the food being stuck and your body is trying to either reject it or get it slimy enough to slide through. It also may mean your band is now too tight, or both.

Ted

No, you should not be feeling pain. Besides taking smaller bites (use baby utensils) and chewing it to mush (the food should be smaller than a pencil eraser when swallowed) make sure you put your fork down between bites and give the food time to go down.

Pay attention to which foods you ate when you get this feeling, there may be certain foods that you do not tolerate well and those foods can be different for everyone. I get that pain if I don't eat properly, if I eat too much or if I eat the wrong foods.

If you do not think that any of this is contributing to your pain then I would make an appointment to talk it over with your doctor.

In my paperwork (being banded tomorrow) they said that beef, chicken, lamb and pork were hard to eat. They must be cooked "wet" poached in broth or in a fat free gravy, then it's not too dry. Dry food is the culprit, and taking bites that are too big. They recommended the poaching and as with tuna, a fat and low calorie mayo.

Try poaching the chicken and see what happens.

Good luck

I agree sounds like your taking bites too big and not chewing enough and it's getting stuck, that pain is the stuck feeling not full feeling. Full feeling is different. YOu just know you can't eat more. It's kind of like before but you don't feel the lower belly distended kinda full. It's more like between your breast bone up most of your chest full. Like if you eat another bite it will sit in your throat. But no pain.

Hope that helps.