Gas like chest pain, just started mushies..??

Savedbygrace · May 12, 2008

Hey Advengers. I need some help, advice, comfort... SOMETHING haha

I just started mushies Friday (3 days ago) I've eaten mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, pureed black eyed peas, refried Beans, backed potato with melted cheese, crackers (after chewing chewing chewing) apple sauce, sherbert... I think that's all. Oh Saturday morning I did try a maybe 3 bites of grits and 3 bites of scrabbled eggs.... all of this in VERY small portions and all are on my list of "can eats". Starting Saturday around 12:30 pm I started getting this pretty tough chest pain. It felt like TIGHTNESS. I had eaten around 8:30 and nothing else until about 4:30 due to the pain. After eating apple sauce it got better. Then around 8pm I ate some baked potato and here it came again... lasted all night. Woke up this morning with the same pain. It felt like what was explained as gas pain but I never had after the surgery.. until now. Now everytime I eat something.. It starts. I took 3 gas x strips today and it got better. Just ate some sf pudding... it's back.

Is it normal for the food to cause gas pain? I'm not using a straw, not drinking while I eat (which is hardddd by the way). Surely this can't go on forever. I can't live on gas x strips. I wonder if the chewables will work better and longer.. and are they ok to use?

Any advice???

May 12, 2008

I woke up last night about 4:30 with the tightness and gas pains. I was banded on April 10th and am still in the mushies phase. don't have a restriction - my first fill isn't for another two weeks, so I can get more food in than I need to. While sitting up in pain last night, praying for a huge burp so that I could go back to sleep, I tried to figure out what I did wrong. I hadn't had this pain since two weeks post Op. With me I think that I over ate on Saturday. I had grits in the morning, some Peanut Butter, chicken salad, milk, some more peanut butter (evil evil stuff - and I think the culpret), Velveeta cheese (melted, left over from my daughter), a yogurt and the leftover chicken salad. I puree the chicken salad into mush in my food processor and love it. I ate all the right things, but think I just consumed too much food. My stomach is NOT used to me eating like that. I'm an emotional eater and its hard to break those old habits. It was a huge wake-up call. It is something I have to work on.

gdf18 · May 21, 2008

HI Wendy,

I just ate my first mushies. I was banded on April 30, but my surgeon keeps everyone on 3 weeks of liquid. I just ate one softly scrambled egg and 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese- both on my okay list. I have a hard feeling in my chest and just finally let out one belch. I feel awful. I thought I'd be so happy I was eating.

I know your post was a week or so ago, so I'm wondering how you're doing now. Did the pain stop? Did you learn anything you could pass along to me on this. I stopped taking my reflux meds after surgery and have been fine and I'm really hoping starting to eat again doesn't start up the reflux again.

Thanks-Gwenn

Savedbygrace · May 21, 2008

Hi Gwen!

Sorry to hear that you are having some of the same issues. I've figured out that mine was caused from cream corn. I wasn't aware that it was a no no food until I ate it again this past Friday and thought I was dying all day Saturday. It felt like my esophagus and stomach was having extreme spasms. I almost went to the er it was so bad. Thankfully, after digesting it, I haven't had any problems. But I can assure you I WON'T be having corn again!

I haven't heard of anyone having problems with cottage cheese but I can tell you that the first time I had this problem I had eaten a couple of bites of scrambled eggs. They felt heavy going down... so maybe lay off of them a day or so and see if that's what the problem was.

Hope it gets better!!

gdf18 · May 21, 2008

I thought about the egg afterwards, too. I recalled that egg is hard to digest, but I never thought it would be hard to get it down. Maybe I should have started like I would after a stomach flu..... a little mashed potato or some farina. It's certainly mashed than my egg was.

Thanks.

Gwenn