Question:
If you swallow something big and you can't throw it up, what will happen?
I would imagine you would be in great pain but will it eventually pass? How long should you wait? Should you go to emergency and what if anything would they do? — [Anonymous] (posted on August 24, 1999)
August 24, 1999
Lol, the first time I read this I imagined swallowing something like a
whole turkey or something! I'm pretty sure that you'll throw up anything
that doesn't fit right. Its the same way now. What would happen if you
swallowed something too big for your stomach? First of all, you couldn't do
it, because you just couldn't swallow something that huge. Even though your
new stomach will be small, its still large enough that it would be
uncomfortable to swallow something whole. Do you tend to swallow large
pieces of food whole, like two ounces of cheese whole? Or a whole small
orange without chewing it? Unless you have this habit (which would be a
whole different barrel of monkeys, health wise,) I don't think you have
anything to worry about.
— Elizabeth M.
August 25, 1999
You will be able to vomit up 90% of the items you swallow if you eat too
much. Otherwise most of the food will disintegrate and pass. I have not
had to do endoscopy on any of my patients, but I guess that is possible.
— Bruce B.
August 25, 1999
to Elizabeth Mccaffety, regarding you response to the question of
swallowing something too big, I'm sure the person didn't mean to swallow
something from the mouth to the esophogus to the stomach, they probably
meant from the stomach to the new hookup of the intestine which is only
about the size of a M&M. Anonymous
— [Anonymous]
August 25, 1999
If something gets stuck and won't come up you will have to go to the
hospital to get scoped. They put a scope down your throat and push thru or
remove out what ever is blocked. Not painful but not fun either. If it is
food it will generally work itsellf out on its own. A pill or some thing
will have to be removed. Or something like chewing gum.
— Donna D.
August 25, 1999
The nurses at the hospital where I had the surgery told me of a patient
that got a chunk of hotdog stuck in his two week old pouch. He had to have
surgery again to remove it. I'll never eat hotdogs.
— Ken C.
August 29, 1999
It only happened to me once, I ate something and it got stuck, I tried and
tried to get it out. I was feeling hungery I would try and eat but because
there was something stuck, it only made me feel worse. I was in pain for
about 3 days before I finally went to the doctor. She did a scope (the
tube down your throte) and discovered I had a big chunk of carrot down
there, she used special little scissors and chopped it up and it passed. I
still had pain for a few more days while the inflamation healed but then I
was fine. Good luck
— Kim C.
September 26, 1999
If you get that "rock" in yru gut feeling, it's best to try to
get it out at once. Since your outlet has to work at it much like fish
lips, kind of working it through, if it can get a hold of the offending
item, it may have started working it through, one bit at a time. So then
you CAN'T get it back. But it's going to take hours to get through. If
you got more than 4 hours and don't feel any progress and water won't pass,
I'd call your doctor's office or go to ER so you don't dehydrate. Your
doctor may be able to tell you how to make a paste to dissolve some things.
— vitalady
September 27, 1999
I talked to someone you had that problem and it was recommended to her to
use Meat Tendererizer and water and swallow a teaspoon. When I am post-op,
I will go no where without it!
— Karmen P.
February 28, 2000
I am two years postop and this still happens to me all the time.
Athe first several months, I would regurgitate it all the time. I
almost never have to do that any longer. Now getting up and
briskly walking (even just from my office to the ladies room)
dislodges it 95% of the time now.
— [Anonymous]
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