Sliming??

JGDH · January 13, 2011

What is sliming? 1 week post op. Please let me know so I will be prepared. Thanks!

Losing_It150 · January 13, 2011

yeah, I keep reading about this and I want to know the 411 on sliming as well please?? :-)

annalise · January 13, 2011

You most likely won't experience sliming until you can eat solid hard foods and has a few fills done. I am nearly a year out and on my fourth fill. My last two fills got me to the point of sliming issues.

When you eat too much too fast, you don't chew, or the food is too dry or fiberous, your pouch rejects it. The lower stomach has the normal stomach acid. Your pouch only has excess spit sitting in it. Sliming happens when the ratio gets messed up in the pouch. That's my way of thinking about it.

I ate cold beef in the summer. I didn't chew perfect and the meat had gotten cold. I swallowed and then the pouch couldn't empty to the stomach. Too much meat, too much spit, not enough room. Meat came up with alot of spit along the way.

I throw up and slime occasionally if I eat and then drink liquid. The ratio gets messed up and it all comes up.

Only once have I gotten sick enough to throw up and notice that there could have been some stomach acid involved. But I did throw up six to seven times in a row instead of once.

Sometimes you have warning and sometimes you throw up in your napkin.