newbie - how bad are the side effects?

[SaraLW 1]

Ok so I am just getting started with this whole process and have no clue what sliming, PB'd, or getting stuck is????? What are these and if something gets stuck is the only way out making yourself throw up? I take it that you can definately feel if something is stuck?

[TracieCat 8]

I am about 8 months out from my surgery ( think I am calculating that right anyway. lol) and I have never vomited, not even one time. I have gotten sick about three times, each time was my own doing in overeating and they sure were hard learning processes for me. I did get very nauseated, upper stomach pains and I could even feel the pain all the way up into my neck and my eardrums. Those symptoms passed in about a half hour each time. I did have something close to sliming one time when I ate a meat on a stick from a Chinese place, I think because of not being able to chew it up completely. I also have a bit of an issue with cornbread, I make a low fat/low calorie version and I have to eat a small piece VERY slowly or it feels like it might get stuck.

But anyway, when I felt like the meat on a stick was stuck, I didnt throw up at all, I just drank some Water and eventually I felt it sort of dislodge itself and pass down through. Yipe, that was scary. Won't be eating that again, or if I do, will cut it in TEENY tiny bites and chew even more than I likely did before.

Wishing you the best of luck with your surgery.