Oh man, that was the worst.

I had a second fill last week and it's a bit tight, but I've been learning (finally) to eat the lapband way - slowly and chew, chew, chew. Obviously, however, it's not yet automatic, because I just spent the last hour spitting out saliva, finally a piece of the bite of tortilla and lamb that had been stuck, and feeling abso-freaking-lutely miserable. Then I drank some pineapple juice.

Oh my freaking gawd, what a relief. It wasn't instantaneous, but darn close.

I had to drain the juice from a can of pineapple chunks to get the juice, so word to the wise, folks, buy a couple of little cans of pineapple juice and have them on hand. Sweet, sweet relief.

Now, back to shakes for a while ...

had same problem and pineapple juice rescued me as well....so glad we have these websites to inform us in our time of need. Keep up the good work.

Happy me !

I'm glad to hear that this worked for someone. I thought I read this somewhere before on this website and I asked my doctor if pinnapple juice would help and he told me "no." Well I'm not going try to get something stuck but I will keep some cans on hand for the next time it happens. Thanks for the advice.