A painful lesson in eating.

I didn't think it would happen to me.  But tonight I ate some chicken and then realized it was sticking in my pouch. I'm sure it was a combination of eating too fast and not chewing enough. I felt like I was gagging every few seconds. Then the discomfort would ease somewhat.. only to return seconds later. Eventually the time period between the gagging got longer.  I was bringing up phlegm.. (some of it containing the chicken).. but I did not vomit.  The episode ended after an hour.  I hope I learned a lesson.

I  struggle with rapid eating andhave found getting sick has not slowed me down significantly.
I tried dinner with timer to take a break every 2 minutes. It went well. I will have to use this until it becomes second nature. My signal to stop if too fast is a sneeze or cough. Start looking for your signak and remeber a meal should take 20 minutes at least. Time for the brain to register what your stomach is doing!

Hey I feel for ya.  Same thing happened to me early out when I tried unground chicken.  Thought the pain and phlegm would never end.  Chalk it up to a lesson learned.

yep, im there with you today from baked fish no less, now im dumping and got foamies too, awful, awful, awful... i wi**** would pass soon... i was soooo looking forward to bacon tomorrow morning, darn back to clear fluids

I can so relate!  In the beginning that happend to me at least once a week, but i figured out it was one of two things, I was eating to fast, or not chewing enough.  And yes its a painful lesson to learn. 
(((hugs)))
Jen

That sounds awful.  Yeah, yesterday I ate half of a stuffed green pepper and thought someone was stabbing me in the side!  I resorted to taking to antacids, and the pain went away.  The weird thing is, it didn't feel like an acid problem - so it was a totally new and terrible thing.  I couldn't even stand up in my classroom.  I am six months out this week.......and still learning.

I still have problems with chicken.    I can eat beef, if tender, and pork and I love bar-b-que.   Chicken just still gives me a fit.   

For now I have sworn off of it.   I will probably try it later,but I sure don't want to suffer the consequences I have in the past.

Good luck to you.
Bonnie

One thing that was suggested to me to keep around when i was new was papaya enzymes.  A lil pill that you chew.  Cheap.  Not bad tasting either.
It works like a meat tenderizer and breaks up the food you have eaten to help it pass through the stoma easier if you have eaten too fast or not chewed well enough.
Makes those first months sooo much easier!
Jane

An hour? Oh geesh! I have done this on a few occasions when things are too dry or I eat too fast. I have learned to stay in the bathroom hoover the toilet cough and gag until I throw up. I feel sooooo much better once it comes out.

I'm over two years out and I cannot eat chicken breast.  Chicken for me has to be dark meat and it needs to be cooked in a crockpot or pressure cooker until it is stringy and falling apart.  I've had two incidents of sitting over a waste basket spitting up saliva for an hour -- both involved chicken.  Steak is great.  Chicken, not so good!

Linda