is this what being stuck feel like?

sweetie78 · March 28, 2009

Hello everyone,

I've been band for 7 months now and even tough the weight lost as been slow Im happy with my band, I can proudly say now that I can run without passing out, and today I bought my first pair of high heel boot(regular widhts). Im here daily and I learned alot from your experiences. I read alot about being stuck, but I don't think I've ever felt what you most are describing. I think it happened to me 4 or 5 times, it doesn't hurt, I don't slim or feel like vomiting. It just feel like I have something stuck in my troat, like when you have a cold and always have to swallow because something is kind of itching in the back of you troat. Thats what it feels to me, it happened after eating a salad, a tortillas, a piece of bagel, or chicken... when it was with the salad pìece it lasted for about 14 hours. Is it what being stuck is? or is it something else? Im getting another feel in 1 week do you think I should talked to my surgeon about it?

Thanks for your help.

Julie

thinkingslim70 · March 28, 2009

Hi Julie

Congrats on the boots - that is such a good feeling! I was banded in Dec and have only just started to have things get stuck, or what is stuck for me. I get a feeling of the food not going down - it literally feels stuck, I get discomfort from it (not necessarily pain), sometimes there is sliming other times not. I just know when this happens that I have eaten too quickly and kick myself. As soon as I feel it start I stop eating.

sweetie78 · March 28, 2009

I get that feeling too, I then stop eating and it just goes away, but the other thing that happens to me just last longer. Like this morning I had a bite of my bf bagel(I dont eat those enymore because they will get stuck) and I had the feeling that I describe earlier until 5pm tonight? Weird, Im not sure what it is... Thanks for your reply.

Julie

CapitolChick · March 28, 2009

Way to go on the sexy boots!!!

When I am stuck I vomit. I get a sea sick feeling (nausea) after something is stuck and I feel this pressure in my chest and throat. Then after my body salivates a bunch it all comes up. Then I feel like crap afterwords. (relieved, but like crap)

Kathy1991 · March 29, 2009

Hi all, I ate a bite of steak last night and I think I must have been to hungry because I ate really fast. I am almost certain a piece of steak got lodged in my band. Do you know if that will eventually go away or will I have to have the band unfilled and refilled? Today I can't eat anything. I can drink if I do it in little sips. I had a Protein Drink for lunch and nothing for b-fast.

Miserable. ks