Blocked stomach?

I'm curious if this has happened to anyone else. (Please stop reading now if you don't want the gory details.) I'm 6 months post-op from VGB, I've lost 83 lbs so far, and until last weekend have had no complications. I've always been very careful about how I eat and chew, etc., but I've found it so much more of a challenge when I'm not alone to concentrate on it. I'm so careful, in fact, that I've never thrown up after eating. That is, until on vacation with the family this past week. While visiting a local Rennasaince faire, I decided to eat the pork chop on a stick (what isn't on a stick?!). I only ate a little more than half of it. I stopped when I began to feel full. However, within the following hour I started experiencing feelings signs of nausea, and then severe pain that radiated thoughout my chest and throat. When I started throwing up foam, faire workers took me to the First Aid shelter. I explained my medical history, but we were all convinced it was all due to dehydration (it was very hot out, I was dressing in garb, and I admitted I wasn't drinking as much water as I should have been). However, the gatoraid and everything else they gave me to drink came right back up eventually and the symptoms would return. Baffled and concerned that I was experiencing some sort of cardiac trouble, I got an ambulance ride to the local emergency room. While there, I started throwing up again. By this time it was well over 5 hours since I'd eaten that pork chop. But lo and behold, some of it still came up. I almost instantly felt better! The doctor looked at the otherwise clear contents in the sick bag (no stomach bile) and announced that I'd probably suffered from a food blockage! They kept me under surveilence for a little while longer, but released me an hour or two later when the symtoms did not return. I honestly thought I was eating carefully, but at some point my concentration must have slipped and I swallowed a piece too big for my reduced stomach to handle. Now I'm a bit paranoid of eating in public for fear I'll do this again. Has anybody else experienced this? It really scared me and my family, and it was incredibly painful.

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