swallowing

after RNY what makes it hard to swallow. Such as the feeling food is stuck before the stomach.

Check out the diagram of what you digestive tract gets changed to; before and after a surgery.  Food does not make it to your stomach anymore. They tell you have a pouch the size of an egg...just one egg. Test it and you could hurt yourself and get a lot of pain.

I suppose that technically food DOESN'T reach your stomach, ever---because your stomach has been totally bypassed. But that's NOT the reason for what the OP is experiencing. The OP's discomfort is caused by eating too much, too fast.

You just got to eat smaller pieces. Remember, your stomach is pretty small - they told me the size of your thumb, so it fills up real fast. When that happens there is no place for food to go but to back up in your esophagus. But you will be only taking liquid protein after the surgery for a month or so.

Your surgeon's plan may have called for a month of liquids, but very few people spend that amount of time on all liquids!  Some of us even start soft foods just a couple of days after surgery...

Lora

I don't think problems swallowing are very common. The surgery doesn't affect your throat in any way.  Feeling as of food is "stuck" before your stomach is because it IS.  You no longer have your large stomach, so your food gets stopped pretty much right at the end of the esophagus once you have had more than a couple of bites.

As long as you are chewing properly and are eating appropriate amounts, you will probably get used to it.

Lora