If food gets stuck...

[malps0929 11]

Hey all! I'm sure many have experienced that feeling of food getting stuck. You feel it in your chest and start burping sometimes.

Does anyone have any tips on responding to that feelinf? Do you take a drink to coax it down? Burp and just throw it up? Eat more to keep things moving?

I'm still getting used to taking my time and small bites. While I don't expect to get that feeling shain, I don't doubt that it will happen again!

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[Bandista 7,466]

Hi there -- for me I can tell when I've gone too far and there is no other resolution except to blap it up. Sometimes I sip liquids to aid in this process, though of course the idea is not to have gotten into this situation in the first place. There have been times when I've been able to resolve a stuck episode by putting my arms up really high. We have a post & beam house and I can sort of hang from a couple of pegs to work my back out. This opens the chest and sometimes it has opened my stoma that little bit it needed in order for the food to pass through. It was a learning process for me to get to slow the heck down, etc., and I still get stuck once in a while if I'm not careful. Those old tendencies to shovel food in too quickly or not to chew properly -- I can forget that but quickly get reminded by the band. Good luck with all -- sounds like you're really getting there. Even with the occasional episodes, I wouldn't trade any of this.

[Corridor72 518]

For me, I absolutely can NOT eat or drink anything else if I'm stuck because that just makes it worse. The only thing that I've found that helps is to get up and walk around. Fortunately, those stuck episodes are few and far between for me.

[Debbie3sons 1,936]

I have to wait 15_30 minutes before I can take a small sip of Water just make sure it goes down & I stop eating other wise I will slime & everything will come out .

[B-52 7,113]

I just stop eating and let it run it's course...if the sliming begins, then I know it is not going away...I'm truly stuck!

I will go into the bathroom and sip some warm Water...this will increase the volume, which has no where to go but up and out....instant relief.

I've even returned to the table and continued eating on occasion....

Many people say they sip to wash it down...that has NEVER been my experience....just the opposite in fact.

As a side note, I have not been stuck in years....but within that learning phase where I was getting re-programmed to be in the Green Zone, I sometimes have been stuck 2-3 times a day until I learned my lessons, and broke old habits once and for all....I was obviously hard headed, but then that's why I was Obese...could not control my eating. Some very bad and ingrained habits acquired over a lifetime.......of course I could have went in and had some Fluid taken out....that would put me back where I was before my last fill and my Dr. and I did not want that...so learn I did.

Lap band took care of all that!!

Have not had a fill in over 3 years either....

[JustWatchMe 7,117]

Stop. Chewing. Immediately.

That is all.