I know the feeling! I went on a business trip this past week and what I ate for breakfast got stuck at the hotel. So for 4 hours in this business meeting I had this obstruction and had to go back and forth to the bathroom to spit because I could not swallow my own spit. It was horrible!! But the last time I was in the bathroom I started taking extremely long deep breaths to try and not start crying and wouldn't you know it...THE PAIN WENT AWAY!! I know it may sound weird but I was at the point where I was about to catch a ride to the nearest emergency room!
But taking long deep deeeeep breaths worked for me. So after I started to feel the pain go away I started sipping water and by our dinner meeting I was eating fish and mashed potatoes for dinner.
I've only had 2 obstructions in my 1 1/2 of my band but now I know that taking deep breaths WORKS.
Sorry for the long post. I was just waiting to share this with someone :-)
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I know the feeling! I went on a business trip this past week and what I ate for breakfast got stuck at the hotel. So for 4 hours in this business meeting I had this obstruction and had to go back and forth to the bathroom to spit because I could not swallow my own spit. It was horrible!! But the last time I was in the bathroom I started taking extremely long deep breaths to try and not start crying and wouldn't you know it...THE PAIN WENT AWAY!! I know it may sound weird but I was at the point where I was about to catch a ride to the nearest emergency room!
But taking long deep deeeeep breaths worked for me. So after I started to feel the pain go away I started sipping water and by our dinner meeting I was eating fish and mashed potatoes for dinner.
I've only had 2 obstructions in my 1 1/2 of my band but now I know that taking deep breaths WORKS.
Sorry for the long post. I was just waiting to share this with someone :-)