Please help - food stuck!!!!!!

[Loulou730 4]

I have something stuck for over an hour. I am in extreme pain. I can't burp, can't drink. I have been walking. I can't throw up. Any suggestions???? Please help!!!!

Thank you!!!!

[2muchfun 8,927]

Sounds like you are stuck and for me the only thing that works is time. Walking seems to help. If the food is lodged in your stomach, the acids will break it down in a few hours. If it's lodged in your esophogus it may take longer.

One time I was stuck so bad, I stood on my head and the liquids in my stomach must have pushed the food away from the stoma and then the food seemed to find it's way through at a different angle.

Some people recommend drinking carbonation so that the pouch expands and the food either is forced through the band or back up through your mouth. I tried it but it was very uncomfortable, so if you're sensitive to pressure or pain, maybe not a good idea? Some folks are in so much pain they go to the ER and have Fluid removed from their band so the chunk will pass.

What did you eat to get lodged?

Good luck.

[SashaWLS 412]

You and me both! I've been in a huge amount of pain for the last two hours, and nothing's working except maybe the 6 baby aspirin I chewed a few minutes ago which has dulled (but not taken away) the pain. I'm close to crying!!!

[donna12 742]

I will have agree with 2much, one night I was stuck for 5.5 hrs with broccoli until someone on here told me to take a large sip of Sprite or carbonated drink and all of the sudden it came up, I puked it up, guess the bubbling dislodged it. Hope you feel better soon.

[Loulou730 4]

Thanks everyone. I think it was rice. It was the first time I had it and I don't even think it was a teaspoon full. I had hardly ate all day and took it in too fast. I know better!!

I went the the bathroom and coughed and coughed as hard as I could until something came up. I just got up a little stomach acid - but instant relief!!

[alleyscby 4]

lou lou what did eat? And do u think it waz to.fast? and di u ever get relief?

[Lori Voss Green 93]

Oh my goodness, rice got me not too long ago too!! It was the first time I really had it since surgery and whoa, I think I will pass on ever having it again! Eating slowly is STILL my hardest lesson to learn....and that rice sure tried to teach me a lesson. I had a TINY amount but it was too fast. Thankfully it wasn't stuck for long and came up quickly, but I have lost all desire to ever eat it again.

[pinknsassyemt 13]

I've been so stuck on rice (one and only time I tried it) I had to use my finger to get a good gag reflex... It absorbs Fluid and just gets stuck hard core. Poopy.

[JillMarie 8]

Deep breaths!!

[MiniMi 1,468]

Flap your arms like a chicken while walking around. Dang that hurts!

[ila 0]

I have the same problem with rice all the time that i had to stop eating it out of pure fear of the pain and vomiting

[Loulou730 4]

Yes, I will NEVER eat rice again!!! Not worth that agony. That was bad, really bad. Who knew something so small could cause so much pain????!!