PB or Vomit after getting stuck???

[barbie1978 22]

ok so here's my question..what's the difference between vomiting and PB'ing AFTER a stuck episode?

Like a lot of people, sometimes i get excited and one of the bites is too big or not chewed well enough and i'm in pain but it ALWAYS goes down..well not last night! :thumbup: That was my first PB (i think)....i went walking outside for fresh air, breathing deep, praying for it to pass with no luck.. at one point i just yelled "GO down or come up! I DON"T CARE!!! I just want the pain to stop!"...and about 10 seconds later stuff came up...it was weird because it was definately not vomit..it just kind of poured out (sorry, it's graphic)...that happened 3 times and then at home it sounded more like a vomit but it still wasn't...it was just the chewed food.....that was about an hour afterwards...THEN i felt better...

So was it a PB or vomit? I'm still assuming it was a PB?

[BarbaraWM 0]

What you described is vomit from being stuck. A PB is more like a burp and a portion of the food comes up rather than everything. A PB is usually from eating too much or too fast while the vomit, I've found, is from getting something stuck (not chewing, wrong food, etc) or the band being too tight.

The volume and "pouring out" you noticed is from the slime. I've actually had the slime come out my nose too. Delightful!

[Cocoabean 430]

Some people use PB (productive burb) as a name for what you have described. I've seen it used interchangeably with burping up stuff and vomitting up stuck stuff.

For me, a PB is just that, a burp where I bring up something. It produces more than air.

Being stuck then urping something up is different to me. It is closer to vomit than burp, but it doesn't take near the effort from the gut that a flu-like vomit does. Urping up something stuck takes effort on my part. Either working my gut muscles, or gulping some Water to start the launch sequence, or sticking my finger down my throat.

A PB happens all on its own. I can PB even if I don't feel stuck. I'll just think it is going to be a normal burp and up comes some food or slime. Just like a baby brings up some formula.

Hope this helps.

[Jachut 487]

Oh, for me, its like vomiting but not as bad. Nothing ever just pours out of me, it comes out after a lot of effort, loudly! It sounds like vomiting, it has the same muscular actions, its just not that awful half digested acidy experience, and not in such huge quantity, and its not accompanied by nausea or anything like the stomach cramping discomfort that vomiting involves. Its a stuck episode, followed by the sure signs for me, a specific cramp right where my band must be and a strange one right to the right of my bellybutton. I know then I have just enough time to get to somewhere private. I can control it for as long as I need to.