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I am a month and a half out and have twice experience what I think is food getting stuck. The first time I ate a small piece of cantaloupe and an hour later I was in extreme discomfort and throwing up every 5 or so minutes. I tried sipping Water but that just caused pain and came right back out. This lasted for 3 hours until finally the cantaloupe came back up and I slowly felt back to normal despite being tired and sore. Well today I was preparing my smoothie fruits for freezing and tried a blackberry, I didn't chew it enough and down it went almost whole. Well que 1 hour later and I start to feel ill and now I'm in this painful and uncomfortable cycle again. The blackberry has yet to make an appearance and I'm really at a loss for what to do. I have definitely learned my lesson on making sure things are chewed but I would like to have some tips in case this ever happens again. Thank you!

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It sounds like dumping syndrome. But I have a hard time with that because one blackberry should be too small to trigger that. Anyways, here are a few suggestions. Never eat before bedtime. Your body digest foods differently when you are laying down in a horizontal position than when you are standing up in a vertical position. If you get dumping syndrome at bedtime, it is almost impossible to sleep. The only relief is to visit the restroom and force yourself to throw up and then watch some TV until the episode is relieved a few hours after.

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You are a bypass patient, right? It does sound like the fruit can get stuck in your anamosis. Hopefully another patient can give tips, but call your surgeon to let them know. Strictures can shrink the opening.

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It sounds like dumping syndrome. But I have a hard time with that because one blackberry should be too small to trigger that. Anyways, here are a few suggestions. Never eat before bedtime. Your body digest foods differently when you are laying down in a horizontal position than when you are standing up in a vertical position. If you get dumping syndrome at bedtime, it is almost impossible to sleep. The only relief is to visit the restroom and force yourself to throw up and then watch some TV until the episode is relieved a few hours after.


It lasted well into the night but I didn't actually eat it at night. Also, I thought dumping with the cantaloupe at first but I thought dumping was related to sugar and a piece of cantaloupe or a blackberry doesn't have enough sugar to cause dumping...at least I thought. Also when I would sip Water it would come back up after some pain which felt like it was blocked from going down.


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Did you get the blackberry unstuck?

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Sounds like eating too fast or not chewing enough




Yeah that's what I said. I was hoping for help on the unfortunate occasion it happened again. Fingers crossed it doesn't.


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On 4/26/2017 at 3:19 AM, Maleficent said:

I am a month and a half out and have twice experience what I think is food getting stuck. The first time I ate a small piece of cantaloupe and an hour later I was in extreme discomfort and throwing up every 5 or so minutes. I tried sipping Water but that just caused pain and came right back out. This lasted for 3 hours until finally the cantaloupe came back up and I slowly felt back to normal despite being tired and sore. Well today I was preparing my smoothie fruits for freezing and tried a blackberry, I didn't chew it enough and down it went almost whole. Well que 1 hour later and I start to feel ill and now I'm in this painful and uncomfortable cycle again. The blackberry has yet to make an appearance and I'm really at a loss for what to do. I have definitely learned my lesson on making sure things are chewed but I would like to have some tips in case this ever happens again. Thank you!

Been there done that with my pills/vitamins I went to chew able Vitamins along with too dry of food will do that too you. I am sorry that happened its not fun :(

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