So about a week after my surgery I was put on soft foods. They went down just fine, in fact now I'm 2 weeks out with little restriction at all. The problem is, for the first week after I started eating soft foods I was getting pretty bad heartburn. It actually took me a few days to figure out what it was because I had never even had heartburn in my life before this. For the last couple of days it has gone away and I'm hoping I'm in the clear.

I can imagine after eating nothing but protien shakes for 2 weeks that solid foods can be a bit of a shock to the system. I guess my question is, is this normal or could there have been something else wrong like band slippage?

Can you say what you are eating? Could this be causing your heartburn? You should slowly try flavoring your foods. It is a trial and error thing in the beginning. I heard others can't eating eat spicy foods now. I don't think you should worry about slippage at this time. Allow your body to recover from the foreign object in your system and treat it like a baby. Stick with non acidic foods at this time right now.

Josephine