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Greetings all, I'm now a bit over 6 weeks after surgery. Last night I threw up after eating (well, after only eating part of what I had planned).

My wife thinks I was eating much faster than has become customary for me post surgery. I also was eating a couple new foods for me since surgery (a pretty dense meatball with Pasta sauce, and a tiny bit of spinach salad).

I pretty much immediately felt like I had a brick logged in my esophagus or upper stomach and felt terrible - like I needed to lay down as soon as possible. Excused myself from the table and once I got back to my bedroom, I felt like I was going to lose it. Pretty soon after that, I threw it all up. Felt better immediately.

No nausea otherwise, no fever etc, no real pain to speak of.

Has any of you experienced this? Did I just eat too fast? Not chew enough? Eat too much?

Thanks!

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@@wwboy

Seeing your post made me nervous. I feel like I couldn't have written the post better myself only difference is I'm only going on 3 weeks post op. I go through this everyday & I still can't catch onto what I'm doing wrong. This happened to me even with Water. The minute my mouth gets watery I know it's "throw up" time. It's exhausting. ????????

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It could be anything from the size of the bites you are taking, how well or not you are chewing, type of food you are eating (my program has me staying away from raw leafy greens till month three), if the meat was moist enough, or maybe your stomach just needs a bit more time to receive a certain food that you are.

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I think it is trial and error at times I ate something last night that I had before and got really nauseated. I think I ate too fast.I also have anti nausea pills I take everyday still.I am 4 weeks out on Monday.

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Was the meat ball one of those store bought ones you just heat up? Because I couldn't tolerate processed meat. Back then if I even took a bit of a hot dog I would throw it up.

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The meat ball was a homemade one that was actually quite large. A small portion for me was about 1/3 of a whole one along with some sauce.

Interesting hearing about raw greens...I wonder if that was it? I had some of the meatball by itself again today and took a very long time to chew. No issues.

Thanks for the feedback though.

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Some foods are just not going to sit right in the early days, and there doesn't seem to be any real way to tell until you eat them. It might be the dense Protein of the meatball that caused it, or it might be the greens or it might have been eating too fast just hit your sleeve funny. Or even a combo of all three of those things was just too much for your sleeve to handle right then.

I had that issue with eggs of all things. Couldn't eat them without throwing up until I was something like 4-5 months out. No real explanation I could come up with either.

Good thing is, it is all temporary. There is nothing I can't eat now, and I'm sure you'll eventually be able to eat anything once you're far enough out (just not nearly as much of course). :D

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