Stuck!

[dragonflylvr21 161]

I am stuck!!!! Usually I am never stuck this long! How long have others been stuck for? This has been over an hour!

[BeachBish 123]

Bless your heart. I was stuck one time for about what seemed like eternity.
Are you slimming? av you tried jumping up and down? Walking ?
Have you tried sipping something very warm? Will anything go down?
I all is NO then you might want to go to ER...
~ Thinking of you!

[2muchfun 8,927]

What did you eat?

[dragonflylvr21 161]

I ate small pieces of beef and peas... Ate slow and at the end felt stuck! Weird!

[Leepers 1,195]

Very tiny sips of hot tea may help.

[2muchfun 8,927]

Beef can be tough on the band unless you eat very small and chew to mush. I only eat hamburger and tenderloin now or I risk a stuck episode too. I assume your stuck episode is past?

[dragonflylvr21 161]

No .. Still stuck in ER ... Getting shipped out to Harrisburg PA

[dragonflylvr21 161]

Well.. They drained my band and the food passed! Lesson learned .. That no matter how well I chew.. I can't eat some things!

[2muchfun 8,927]

Well.. They drained my band and the food passed! Lesson learned .. That no matter how well I chew.. I can't eat some things!

Having a stuck episode that last more than 3 hours is very unusual. Your band is wrapped around the top of your stomach and food stuck in the stoma or pouch is exposed to gastric acids that break down the food into nothing. Could you have swallowed some ligament or gristle that isn't meat?

I love cherries but the pits scare me? I've nearly swallowed a couple. Can't imagine how long it would take gastric acid to break down a cherry pit and don't plan on finding out?

Anyway, glad you're OK now but pay attention to big bites?

[BeachBish 123]

What typoe of beef Dragonfly? As in Roast beef? I find ANY beef hard except tenderloin, then I cut it in tiny pieces.

Sometimes It's SO hard to eat slow when in your head you are STARVING!

So now it's liquids and starting all over with fills.

Keep your chin up girlfriend!

[dragonflylvr21 161]

Update: I was actually stuck on snow peas ... Yuck ... No more for me .. Ever! My band was empty for a week and I actually lost a pound! I was aware of everything I ate because with an empty band ... my appetite came back full force! I hade 6.8 cc's in my 10 cc band and now I am at 4! Not the same as 6.8 but happy I have something! He said he will take me to 7 in 5 weeks! Hopefully by then I will be back in the green!

[JustWatchMe 7,117]

I got stuck, really stuck, on pork chops tonight. Second attempt at pork chops so I guess that won't be a food I get to have anymore. For the first time I experienced sliming and spitting up. I fought it like hell but the burping up just wouldn't stop.

I learned:

The first bite of anything must be really small and well chewed.

Wait a minute or so between the first bite and the second bite.

At the first sign of feeling stuck, FOR GOD'S SAKE, WOMAN, STOP EATING!

"Hmmm, that feels weird. Must have taken too big of a first bite. Here, my next two will be real small and chewed thoroughly." Yeah, um, NO! Those two extra bites were the ones that came up after fifteen minutes with about a cup of foamy phlegm.

Live. And. Learn.

Edited June 15, 2014 by JustWatchMe

[Short and Chunky 230]

So sorry Dragonfly..hope you are feeling better today. Take care and stay on those liquids..Stoma and band have to rest a bit.