Hi!
First let me say I am SOOO happy to have found this forum. It was a comfort to find other people who know what I'm going through. I read through a whole thread about food getting stuck, and now I can't find it to post my question as a reply... so new topic.
I had my surgery almost 8 years ago. And at first everything went great. I couldn't eat breads anymore for the most part, but it was all good. I lost about 50 pounds the first year and was happy. Then after a few years I started to get this "stuck" feeling... I honestly never connected it with this procedure, which seems crazy now, but I just didn't. It was years after the surgery, and it felt like it came out of nowhere. I started "sliming" and "PB" and all the things Iearned have actual names when I just read through this thread this morning. Things progressed to the point where last year I ended up in the hospital (here in Korea, which is where I'm living now) because I couldn't swallow Water. The doctor here took out all the liquid from my band and everything went back to normal. I was happy.
But it has started again. I have no liquid in my band anymore and once again I am starting to not be able to eat much at all. Even Soups. In that thread that I read I saw mention of papaya extract, and one of the questions I wanted to ask was how you take that? Do you take it before every meal? Or just when things get stuck? Like, when the food gets stuck, you chew a tablet? Any other suggestions for things that work?
And any thoughts on what is going on? I have no liquid in my band and it is happening again. I am thinking of fasting for a few days or so because the doctor told me that the reason the problem happened in the first place was because I was overeating and it stretched out my esophagus (I could see that things were mishapen when I looked at my barium swallow extract), so would that help? If I just don't eat at all for a while? It's kind of hard to go to the doctor here because of the language barrier (the doctor I did eventually see last year spoke very little English))
Thanks!
