PB Question - Just had one! Help!

[lizrbit 0]

sheila, have you called your dr? Sweetie i definitely would if i were you, something is amiss if you are doing it every day! especially every time you eat. Call your surgeon or nutritionalist today! THIS MINUTE! right now. right this second...

yes i mean right now.

pick up the phone. simple call. call now.

did you call yet? well why not right now.

[sheilamj1fan 2]

I told him about the pain on my left side, the slime thing, oh yeah and the gagging on Wednesday and he said it will go away. WHEN!!!????!!!!! I'm having that slime right now, but I'm not gagging. I always have a paper towel or something handy. YUCK

[Shesha 1]

Ha! My name is Sheila too. I just realized lizrbit was talking to sheilamj1fan and not me!

I think I may have things under control. No soda and no sliming or PB's in three days! woo hoo! I think it was the asparagus. It will be a long time before I try that again!

[Shesha 1]

PB is short for "productive burp". When you eat more than or something that your band can't handle, it comes right back up. It's kind of like vomiting, but isn't as yucky since the food has not mised with your digestive acids. The food comes up in a sort of clump (at least in my little experience)

Shesa: I hope you are doing much better!!! I am still new to the website and I will be banded until May. Can you explain to me what PB is? I searched and searched trying to find out, but no luck.

Thanks,

Joyful1

[H82BFAT 0]

Ok, I'm getting nervous. I'm considering the procedure. Have the pysch interview on Friday! These stories are not sounding good. Someone please tell me I'm doing the right thing!

[Tres Chic 0]

I was told ASPARAGUS and CELERY were no-no's.

[Tres Chic 0]

Shesha: Thanks for defining PB ("productive burp"). I've long wondered what that meant and decided that, based on what I read on here, I'd call it 'projectile barfing'. I was pretty close!

[Tres Chic 0]

Ok, I'm getting nervous. I'm considering the procedure. Have the pysch interview on Friday! These stories are not sounding good. Someone please tell me I'm doing the right thing!

Hopefully your doctor is explaining the procedure to you. If you think it's a magic bullet, it's not, but if you follow the instructions and do your part, I'm sure you'll be fine. Sometimes reading the posts is a little daunting. I postponed my procedure twice before going ahead. Now I wish I'd taken the first date!

[sheilamj1fan 2]

I must say that I've never PB'd food. It's the slime, so I guess it's not a PB, right?

[Shesha 1]

Don't let my experience deter you. It really wasn't all that bad. Like anything new, there are things you have to learn. I've really had a great experience thus far. I just ate some asparagus and it is clearly stated in the band pamphlet as a no no! Geesh, I remember reading that AFTER the fact...

Ok, I'm getting nervous. I'm considering the procedure. Have the pysch interview on Friday! These stories are not sounding good. Someone please tell me I'm doing the right thing!

[itsyvonne 0]

I've never understood that asparagus warning in the book ... I eat it regularly...it doesn't cause any problems for me.

Salmon on the other hand - I had one of the worst PB's EVER with salmon.

Just a lone cry in the wilderness in support of asparagus.

[gonnabeskinny 0]

i pb contsantly and today i FAINTED for the forst tome in my life! fell right on th efloor and fainted, we took my bllod pressure it was crazy low, luckily my dr came over ( he does house calls on emeregencies) and unfilled me and let me drink 3 quarts of pedialyte, and my blood p[ressure went right back to normal, iw as totally degydrated an dhad been for days!!!!!

I take a towel to bed with me for the PBs wich happen more at night, the low blpod pressur ewas scaruy and linked to taking a rx diurtetic, wihc oim going to cease doing, but he tried to do a slaone drip and we couldnt get a vein bevaise my dehydration had dried up all my veins, so the only other optu=ion wa sto go to hospital wich thank god i didnt have to do,

my blood pressure was 54 opver 43- thats almost DEAD, dont think dehyradtion ismt veryu very very very dangerous, i just wante dto warn everybody since this was a very serious complication, i naturally have low blood pressure but systeloic( sic) at 43? thats so beyond bad.

anyway i hpe someone benefits from this inforlmation KEEP HYDRATING.

Im serious.

gonnabe pretty much am.

thanks:sick

[ajlmom40 0]

I am new to this forum and not familiar with some of the acronyms you are using. What is PBing? Is it different from throwing up? Has anyone had problems with bloating and gas?

[juliegeraci 7]

PB is productive burp. It is exactly like vomitting. Sometimes chunks come out or sometimes it more like vomitting where you vomit what is in your pouch. Depends on how full you are. I don't get gas now, but I had it early on. Julie

[Tres Chic 0]

Well defined, Julie...