When you have food stuck, DON'T DRINK ANYTHING! Your first impulse will be to drink some Water to get it through, but it just makes it worse.

:tongue2: (<-- you if you drink water when something is stuck)

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Update: When something gets stuck, you will know it. It feels like there is food, literally, sitting in your throat (not a choking feeling, though)... it's not painful at all, it's just uncomfortable. For the first couple months I ahd my best fill, I carried around a bag in case I had to chuck (luckily never had to use it!)...

It won't last forever, it comes up or goes down, one way or the other... just let it be and ride it out... don't drink water!

Edited October 22, 200817 yr by Weas123
Answering questions

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I'm not sure I'm physically able to do that position. If I could do that, I don't think I would need the band! LOL

My first thought when I got stuck was to panic. The big question pops into your mind: "What if I can't get unstuck, what then?"

I quickly found that what won't go down will come back up. I have also found that if I let nature take its course that it will come up without literal vomiting. For me, if I sit on the toilet and lean over a trash can it sort of "falls up".

I had a lot of stuck times between my first and second fill. Now that I have had my second fill, I am finding that I do not get stuck as much and that I get the "full" feeling instead and I am learning to stop before getting stuck.

I have also found that if I have something to drink such as a glass of Water or a cup of coffee (decaf) about an hour before I eat that I don't get stuck. I guess it is that "opening up the band" thing. Cold drinks seem to open it in the morning and warm seem to keep it open during the day.

Well I had a stuck experience last night (ate out and ate too fast and thus didn't chew as well as I should have). Anyway as soon as I started to feel some type of pain, I stopped eating. And it just kept getting worse. For over an hour I was in a lot of pain and then the last fifteen minutes were so bad I called the hospital and they told me to go to the ER. And then - boom - the pain went away just like that. I mean one second - extreme pain - and the next second - gone. I guess that pain was the food moving through the band and then when it went through the pain was gone. I knew not to drink anything. But I have to research that yoga position. But it wasn't just discomfort for me it was severe pain. And I've only had one fill.