How Does It Feel When You Eat?

[littlerlou 7]

Alrighty...more questions.

How do you all feel when you eat? Or I guess I should ask...What does it feel like? I have 4.5cc's in my 10cc band. When I eat or drink I can feel the food or liquid from my throat all the way down. It feels like Im swallowing something much larger than I am and it feels like it takes a looooong time to reach where its going.

Its not a "stuck" feeling where it hurts..but it isnt the most comfortable feeling in the world. Today I ate about 1/4 of a burger and 2 french fries (not the best choice, but the only choice). I was full but not like a satisfied full. It was like stuffed full. But not in my stomach, more in my throat and chest..if that makes any sense at all.

[judych 225]

Alrighty...more questions.

How do you all feel when you eat? Or I guess I should ask...What does it feel like? I have 4.5cc's in my 10cc band. When I eat or drink I can feel the food or liquid from my throat all the way down. It feels like Im swallowing something much larger than I am and it feels like it takes a looooong time to reach where its going.

Its not a "stuck" feeling where it hurts..but it isnt the most comfortable feeling in the world. Today I ate about 1/4 of a burger and 2 french fries (not the best choice, but the only choice). I was full but not like a satisfied full. It was like stuffed full. But not in my stomach, more in my throat and chest..if that makes any sense at all.

im having the same sensations and im only 4 days out. its more in my chest... im not very often a satisfied full. Hardly ever actually. im aware all the time that i havent chewed on anything substantial in a while.

[elcee 3,341]

That is pretty normal. The food is not going straight through to your stomach so you are not going to feel the fullness there. Full is now a feeling of pressure in the chest and that is a feeling you should try to avoid. Feeling like there is something in your throat is apparently because of pressure on the vagus nerve, it is not actually sitting in your throat but it sure as hell feels like it.

[Maddy1 55]

I am so glad you asked this question and someone answered. I am 2 1/2 months out from surgery and I feel this way about 3 days after I have a fill. I haven't understood what was happening. I don't throw up and don't feel like I will. Just that pressure in the lower throat that feels like I am stuffed. I am trying really hard to figure out the feelings around my stomach and eating so I know what I am doing.

[lellow 1,713]

I haven't had that feeling in a long time and since I got refilled to 8.5cc (in a 10cc band) on Friday after port revision, I'm feeling that too. I feel like if I eat too much, it's blocking up my throat. And two or three bites are enough to get to that point.

I remember though that it was similar when I was in my green zone before so I know it's normal. Just forgot what it was like and now having to relearn all over again about the signals that the band gives me: to eat slowly, to chew and to stop before I get that 'full throat' feeling.

[waitingpatiently 250]

im having the same sensations and im only 4 days out. its more in my chest... im not very often a satisfied full. Hardly ever actually. im aware all the time that i havent chewed on anything substantial in a while.

Do you mean you are only 4 days post-op?

[judych 225]

Do you mean you are only 4 days post-op?

yes, i was banded on the 22nd in australia.

[pmartin323 13]

Wow....your eating solid food? I was on a full liquid diet for 2 weeks post-op, then thicker pudding, yogurt like foods then onto pureed food before finally reaching solid food. You must bad careful cause you are still swollen and healing. This is why you need to be following the diet.

[judych 225]

Wow....your eating solid food? I was on a full liquid diet for 2 weeks post-op, then thicker pudding, yogurt like foods then onto pureed food before finally reaching solid food. You must bad careful cause you are still swollen and healing. This is why you need to be following the diet.

no... sorry... no, ive confused you here.

im not on solids yet. ive made up a meal of babyfood and diluted it a lot... could drink that through a straw... that helped with hunger pains. i do have some greek yoghurt, mixed up with low fat milk and blended with Protein powder. no solids as such. well, if you could call the baby food solids,... but i dont think you could. i enjoy that.

[pmartin323 13]

LOL......baby food was gross to me! Best of luck on your journey.

[judych 225]

LOL......baby food was gross to me! Best of luck on your journey.

rofl... was it?? i guess that shows how desperate ive been. hahaha... but truly i dress it up and its o.k.. i must get some thicker Soups now. also get some v8 vege juice. there must be thicker soups out there.