What Are Slimes?

[guzel 11]

What are slimes? I have heard this term a few times since I started reading this board and I figure there are really only two options. Or is it like dumping syndrome that the bypass people get?

[copchick187 0]

I was wondering the same thing.

[peacequeen 434]

The way I understand it, if you eat too much too fast,,you will vomit a slime like substance. Dumping syndrome has a variety of symptoms.

[Free2B 8]

I am nearly four weeks out. My experience with this is that it happens when you eat too much or too fast. It is not like vomiting, in that there is no "upheaval". Rather, there is pain in the chest and a kind of foamy saliva slowly comes back up your esophagus until it reaches your mouth and you can spit it out. In my case, the first time was with a popsicle. It took about ten minutes for all of the popsicle to come back up - a foamy, purple substance (grape popsicle). It was very uncomfortable and unpleasant but to me not as bad as vomiting because there was no nausea. You just knew it was coming up and waited it out.

[5McK 10]

Actually, I got the slimes the first couple days after surgery. It wasn't like throwing up at all. It was like all this extra saliva just kept coming up my esophagus and into my mouth and I had to spit it out. It started with a "metal" taste that in the past made me think I was going to throw up, but it was just all this...slime!

[feedyoureye 3,087]

yup...my mouth started watering, I had the feeling I should not eat or drink anything else... OR swallow the saliva... I started spitting until the slime and saliva event was over. This only happened once in the hospital and once at home the first week. It did not hurt ... just YUCK. Nothing came up from my stomach...

[peacequeen 434]

I don't know where I read that about vomiting,,or maybe I just misunderstood but thanks for clearing that up. It's still gross,,lol I'm sort of scared of this now. I have no gag reflex,,I'll end up throwing up anyway.

[guzel 11]

Ugh, it sounds terrible! I guess there has to some sort of draw back. At least it's not nearly as bad as dumping syndrome or band slippage.

[Indymom 132]

Hmm, I have never had this happen. I vomited up my pills only once (when I took first before eating/drinking anything). I've eaten a bite or two too much and felt that awful sensation in my chest . . . but I've been able to breathe through it.

[iegal 460]

Slimees...lots of salivia or drool coming out of your mouth. Sounds attractive, right? After surgery when I started eating real foods, about a month out - I would get the slimeez when full. This response went away eventually but I did experience it. Crazy huh?

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

It still happens to me occasionally and I am past 2 1/2 years. If I eat one bite too much, (there is no other way to describe this, ) my mouth fills up with saliva, (only a little thicker)

I have to keep spitting it out. My mouth keeps filling up with this, until it's over. It can last quite awhile. If you're in the car, and there is nowhere to spit, ( like after eating out) it can be a real problem.

Luckily, I learned early out how to avoid this at all cost. I am sure it will happen to ever sleever at one point.

[tjharmon 11]

I haven't had slimes or vomiting since surgery (I threw up immediately upon waking from surgery--that was it) I have had dumping and am learning what to avoid--so hopefully you will be lucky and not have it either

[FishingNurse 1,210]

I have only had the slimes 5 times, I get it from Bagels and flat breads. It's horrible and I avoid it at all costs.

[saints92 2]

I get them a lot. I do not eat too much, or eat too fast. I am nauseated all the time. I get the SLIMES if I try to eat meat. Our stomach is used to producing more Fluid to get food to go down and digest, this is excess. I have had a terrible time with slimes. When I vomit, it is mostly mucousy liquid. It is no fun at all. I would avoid if I could, believe me. I was sleeved on Oct 25th.

[waterlover 15]

are the slimes the same as the 'foamies' then?

what a deterrent! ack!