How do you Know when food is stuck? What does it feel like?

Please help:eek:

Have you ever eaten or drank something and you feel a pain in your back( before banding). Its like an intense pain where it hurts to sit or stand, its actually pretty unbearable, personally speaking. Once you feel it once , you wont want to feel it again!

I had often wondered the same thing. well, I can now say with absolute certainty that YOU WILL KNOW when it happens. It happened to me this morning when I went it a mindless world of reading email while eating breakfast. I am guessing that I was eating to fast and not chewing because I was so focused on what I was reaading. That WILL NEVER happen again> The pain was horrible. I ended up voimting before it got any better. Lesson learned: WATCH WHAT YOU ARE EATING!!!!

You'll definitely know when it happens. It hurts.. anywhere from mild discomfort to flat out pain. My stomach also makes noises when its happening(like a meow sound, lol). And 'sliming' usually accompanies it. Which is really just extra saliva accumulating in your mouth, you can swallow it, which may cause you to throw up, or spit it out, which is what I do. I also bend over and touch the floor and then reach back up to the sky as that helps with the pain.

My reaction is the same as Jenn's...extreme pain...feels like my stomache is being twisted into knots and starts gurgling. I am learning to stop at the first gurgle, if I do that then that is all good.