Creepy Crawly Esophagus

[Janette T 17]

I recently had a fill and feel like I'm finally in the green zone, but I have this constant creepy crawly thing going on with my esophagus. I'm not "stuck", because I can get food down, but it feels like there's just a little something that always stays behind and moves up and down my throat. After awhile, it makes me nauseous. I've read about PBing, but don't know if you can do it on purpose.... can you? It is SOOO annoying. The food feels like it's stuck in my upper esophagus most of the time. I can't tell if it's been the same piece of food the whole time, or if the problem keeps happening. I THINK I'm chewing my food well..... but maybe not. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

[blondegal_ 1,028]

Have you tried drinking a full glass of Water quickly? Might "wash" down anything there. As for the PB. There's been a few times when I coughed and something came up. I've never actually burped.

[Janette T 17]

I did! I know this is dangerous, but I even tried to drink a bunch of Water real quick and gag myself so the water would come up and wash it out. But the water went all the way into my stomach, and my stomach was unable to force the water back out past my band - which scares the bajeebas out of me if I were to ever really need to throw up. I have hacked, wretched, and coughed to no avail. :/

Thanks for the tip though!

[blondegal_ 1,028]

You might just be irritated. Ever have a potato chip scratch on the way down? Maybe something kinda like that happened. Does your doctor allow any pain meds? What about warm liquids to soothe?

Just throwing out more ideas.

[Maddysgram 6,159]

Definitely speak with your Dr, all we can do is guess.

But it sounds to me like you are either over filling yourself or eating to quickly.

Believe me, you can not force yourself to PB, it will do it itself whether you want it to or not ( like in a restaurant, lol)

PBing is when you're stuck and you have pain in your chest and begin sliming. You keep spitting to get rid of it and all of a sudden your body will build enough slime, that you either pb it up or it finally goes down. After you have an episode like that you want to be sure to do liquid Proteins or mushies for a few days, b/c it aggravates your stoma.

Give your Dr a call. They got big bucks to do the surgery, let them do their job.

Good luck!