Slimed?

[Sunshine 1]

I've read things about 'sliming'. What is this?

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

Yeah, it's a band thing.

[Maddie 9]

It's a foamy, frothy, mucousy, retching type of vomit.

It's caused by eating too fast, eating too much, not chewing your food to the consistency of applesauce, eating some food your tummy isn't ready for, dry food without a slider, etc.......

The body begins to produce large quantities of mucus/saliva to help things along.

One of the first signs of trouble can be a runny nose indicating that you're getting FULL. This is your body basically telling you one more bite could be trouble.

Chew your food well

Take your time eating - Put the fork down between bites

Use sauces,etc with dry foods such as chicken, steak, tuna.< /span>

[Lookinupin2010 0]

For me, it's a horrible slimy feeling that suddenly comes up into my mouth and I have to immediately go throw up. I have had it happen 3 times so far and don't want it to happen again.

As soon as I feel I shouldn't take another bite, I STOP !! If I don't...slime

If I chew too fast...slime

If I don't chew enough...slime

Drink something to soon after my last bite....slime

Eat bread, or some other starchy food.....slime

If it happens to you once, you will know what it is. It is NOT pleasant !!

As far as the runny nose, I never got that. Just the immediate feeling of slime in my mouth from my stomach. JUST AWFUL !!!

Edited July 31, 2010 by Lookinupin2010

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

It doesn't just happen with a band.

If you eat too much, your body produces a very thick saliva to help the food pass out of your stomach. Your mouth fills up with it, and it's better to spit it out rather than swallow it. Swallowing it just makes it worse.

It's a learning process to eat with a sleeve. Once you learn how much to eat, this does not happen nearly as often.

[sam30204 0]

I wish it were just a band thing:( It has happened to me 6 times and I vomited 4 of those. Ive never seen anything like what comes up. It was a large amount of really thick looking clump of spit. It was so gross yuk!!

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

I stand corrected!

[Calgarygirl 0]

Great info and sounds like the sleeve keeps you in line You are all so inspiring... reading everything you write helps out so much and I love seeing the weight come right off of everyone, Im very excited!!

Thanks for sharing everyone! My sleeve date is in 47 days :cool0:

[lamsunshine 2]

First, Thanks Sunshine for asking that question as I was wondering the same thing myself. Second "GROSS", I really am going to work on eating slower, and taking smaller bites. So maybe by the time I have my surgery I wont slime.

[NotSoLittleMermaid 14]

Hi I am researching WLS and am seriously looking at it with the goal that once everything is healed up with VSG or Vertical Plication, you can be somewhat normal. My hope is that quantity of food limited, but that as long as you chew well and don't stuff yourself, you'll be fine. I thought sliming only came from lapbands. I also thought that one could eat bread (or anything else) when healed up with the Sleeve. Please let me know you thoughts and experiences. It is possible to just eat small amounts (maybe drink too w/food once you've lost the weight?) without all this gross sliming?

[NotSoLittleMermaid 14]

Ok, let me ask.. Does anyone with Gastric Sleeve Plication experience this?

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

You are not supposed to drink while eating even if you are at goal. You can do it if you want to, but your food passes through your stomach much faster and you will be hungry again soon and you can eat more. It's a very slippery slope to get that habit started.

In the beginning, when you're fresh out of surgery, you won't have room for any liquid while you're eating. You'll only be able to eat a few bites, and drinking will make you sick.

[NotSoLittleMermaid 14]

Thank you Orgegon Daisy. Does sliming ever go away or is it a permanent thing of life with the sleeve?

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

It is a permanent thing, if you eat too much. You have to remember the stomach that is left is very tiny. If you fill it up too much, there is nowhere for the food to go. Making slime is your body's only line of defense to try to help digest food so there is room in there.

Do you remember when you have the stomach flu and right before you vomit, your mouth gets all watery? It's similar to that.

That being said, now that I am past one year, it rarely happens to me anymore. I know how much I can eat and I don't over do it. Like I said before, eating with the sleeve is a learning process. It takes awhile to learn though, unless you plan to take a measuring cup with you every time or everywhere you eat.

[sleeve 4 me 910]

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