My definition of a PB -add yours

[Jessiebear 2]

With so many asking what a PB is, I thought I would copy a post I made yesterday in another a thread to hopefully clear it up. Add your definition too.

PBing or PB is "Productive Burping" or "Productive Burp". Same things, but folks say it in different ways. You get the golf ball feeling (food won't go through the band & is painful). You then get the slimes (your body's way of producing saliva to help ease the food down. The only problem is, the saliva has nowhere to go & just keeps backing up into your mouth). You eventually end up doing what we so delicately call a PB (Productive Burp). You actually hack up the food that is sitting in your pouch blocking the small opening made by your band (the stoma). The contents from the pouch usually have little to no digestive juices, so it's really not as bad as it sounds. After this happens the majority of us go on liquids or at least mushies for at least 24 hours. Hope that clears it up for everyone! LOL!

[Wheetsin 714]

Here's mine from a previous thread:

PBs are caused by eating foods you cannot get through your band, eating too much, or too quickly, or just eating the wrong thing on the wrong day. Sometimes there is no single factor you can point your finger at.

Generally used "PB" refers to two different things:

1. When food gets stuck, but is eventually able to get through.

2. When food backs up in the pouch for whatever reason cannot get through, and your body expels it.

Not everyone feels a PB the same way. For me, it was severe pain on either side of my waist, and in my spine area right betwen my shoulderblades. This was the omly PB I've had, and it required forceful expulsion of the food. This included the same symptoms and actions of vomiting (salivating, wretching), but there was no acid - just saliva & the stuck food.

Some describe their PB as "golf ball tightness" or "presure" around the area of the band. Others have no pain, and say it's just as though the needed to cough and oops, up comes some food. Others are are to bring the food up "on demand".

You gotta love the inconsistencies.

[Kathy473 1]

That sounds like a perfect description to me! I hate that feeling of a golf ball in your chest! That is the worst pain! You feel helpless, anxious to get rid of it, nervous that you will hurt your band...all kinds of feelings come around when that pain hits me. But I just relax and breathe. Some people tell me to drink something and I am like.... OH NO! That is the worst! I just grin and bear it and let it ease on out! And remember what it was that I did that caused it and try not to do it again!

[Jessiebear 2]

Bumping cause I'm still seeing people asking what a PB is. Come on veteran bandsters. Add your 2 cents here!

[JanetC 2]

Also from another thread, lol:

The number of PBs does seem to go up with more restriction... but you may just be a lucky person who eats slowly & small enough portions & chews well, etc, etc.

My PB's happen under different circumstances:

1. Too large a bite

2. Didn't chew well enough

3. Too many bites too close together

4. Too much food (upper stomach is full, lol)

The things that I've found that help:

1. SMALL bites -- baby-size! Pretend you don't have teeth!
   
2. CHEW to goo (as Vines says. :Banane04:)
   
3. WAIT between bites!! 30-60 seconds!!!! (This is the one that gets me.)
   
4. LISTEN to your body! That burp or hiccup might just be your body telling you to stop! And any sort of sternum pain, definitely stop! Spit anything in your mouth out! Don't swallow it... you'll just have to PB it too!

Hope you never have to experience one! :mad: