Wow, I hear you! My band has its own, what I call, PMS. Once a month I am not able to eat anything but liquids for 3-5 days for no apparent reason. It starts with having trouble with just water when I first wake up and just gets worse. After 3 months of this I know to have high nutrition soups on hand and my favorite protein shakes. It's like having to deal with a roommate lol!

I hate my band, tonight i ate soup, really and for no reason I barfed it up, I am sick of barfing, I am sticking to a "diet" which I am not hungry on, I eat slow, exercise yet I find I am barfing 3-4 times a week....

I hate my band, tonight i ate soup, really and for no reason I barfed it up, I am sick of barfing, I am sticking to a "diet" which I am not hungry on, I eat slow, exercise yet I find I am barfing 3-4 times a week....

Yah they say if you throw up you can cause your band to slip so I am so afraid of that since I have also thrown up 3 times now.

wow..i kinda have the same problem.... i can basically eat anything. But it depends if i am stressed or something. One day i can eat rice,chicken, ham.... the next it will get me stuck for about 20- 30 min and then comes the spitting up. One thing i am sure of is that i cannot sit to eat with my kids..i guess they stress me out with all the mess.

I try hard not to vomit, i focus on my breathing and visualize what is going on in side me and "tell my band to open up"...lol i know it sound crazy!

Unfortunally i have figured out how to sabotage my self with eating small snacks between meals...that is why the scale has not moves down since NOv.

I have had over 6 fills...and jsut now i can feel some restriction I told myself i will not go back for a fill till i get myself unde control and on track.

Good luck!!

i throw up a lot, slippage, if it happens it happens, no one should live being a bulimic which is what I feel like right now...

Been there done that, many times over!!

Keep in mind you would have to throw up ALOT all at once to cause slippage. It doesn't just happen if you throw up a few times in a few weeks. Since my last fill about a month ago I have thrown up about 2-3 times a week. It wasn't that I was tight really it was just things that normally I could eat wouldn't go down or I would be eating and they would go down fine then all of a sudden it was like the food "prairie dogged" back up.

Right now I can eat basically normally and am not going to get my fill this time. As long as I have these episodes then for me it is not time for a fill. When I start shoveling the food in then it will be time.

@Gorda...I do the same thing. I focus hard and visualize my food sliding on down. Sometimes it works but not often enough. I HATE to throw up and really it isn't throwing up for me most of the time it is more like a glob of slime popping out. I know gross right?