Overeating? and PBing

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Had my first episode of this...I work for a temp agency and yesterday, I didn't work a full day, so I only got a 10 minute break...I put my lean cuisine in the microwave, went potty, came back and tried to eat in 8 minutes! BIG mistake!!!! I hurt so bad, but I thought "I'll tough it out, it has to go down at some point!" WRONG!!! I excused myself as fast as I could, tears in my eyes, and RAN to the bathroom and barely made it!!!! Eating fast is just NOT an option...I would have done MUCH better to drink my Protein shake and saved the lean cuisne for dinner!

Ahhhh, you've been initiated into band land! :clap2:

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

I'm almost certain that it stands for "Projectile Burping". No joke.

There is nothing burp-y about it. It's barfing.

[Cerrin 3]

I love this site everyone seems so cool and nice and most important supportive.

no what is it?

sliming?

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Do you want the pretty flowery version or the real one?

[Cerrin 3]

O want the complete real version.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Sliming is when you have something stuck in your stoma (stoma... the part of your stomach that the band wraps around). Your body starts producing thick saliva... think of it as your body trying to produce lube to make the stuck food slide down. It doesn't usually work for me, it just gives me more to barf.

When you barf it looks like slime, thus... sliming. You think you are barfing mucous but it's really super thick saliva. It's gross, but not as bad as you might think. Well, it is bad. But the upside to barfing with a band is that you don't typically barf all stomach contents. Just pouch stuff. While there is stomach acid in your pouch it is minimal and most of it pools in your lower stomach. So when you PB you don't typically barf half digested food and stomach acid so that part isn't NEARLY as gross as ... how do you say it? A full vomit?

It really doesn't happen all that often and it's typically your own fault if you do. You didn't chew well enough, you eat bites that are too big, food that doesn't work for you, that kind of thing. Some people do it once a year and others do it weekly. It's really up to you how often it happens.

Sometimes it's kinda sorta like trying to barf up thick karo Syrup. Gahh...

[tesma 0]

What is slimming? I'm getting banded Mon.?? Marcy

[Cerrin 3]

Thank you, These are the things I want to know. I am an information girl. If I have the information I can handle anything. If this happened to me and I didnt know this is common and why it happened I would think I was sick or something.

your awsome

[christine yng 0]

You guys are scary, there I was thinking I was getting the hang of things after my first week with the lap band and I run into this thread.......I am a novice! I will go back to the little place from which I came! sob!! PBing, slimin, puking aching, barfing!!!!OMG Please, please say it isn't so! Is all that going to happen to me? Somebody please give some encouraging words!

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

What is slimming? I'm getting banded Mon.?? Marcy

It's sliming, think of sliming as causing slimming. See above.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Thank you, These are the things I want to know. I am an information girl. If I have the information I can handle anything. If this happened to me and I didnt know this is common and why it happened I would think I was sick or something.

your awsome

Yeah, that was one thing I did not know about pre-banding. It was a big surprise!

It's gross when it happens but it's usually over with reasonable soon. Just watch what you eat and how you eat it and it shouldn't be a problem.

Foaming, anyone know what that is?

[christine yng 0]

So now foaming? You know what, if you were to write a glossary for the novices like me it would be excellent ( other than being grossed out) I am learning more today than I did in the last 2 months!!!

[SimplyMe 0]

That's why I love this forum.....if you want to know the FACTS of bandland....come here! I certainly wasn't told about sliming....and PBing in the consult!

I didn't PB at all until after my 2nd fill......and wow.....the last couple of days have been horrible!

But the solution is either in myself or an unfill!.....it is a mechanical device and I must learn to work it....and fine tune it!....as I'm getting thinner of course!

[Cerrin 3]

OK what is foaming?

See I am going to think of all these gross little things that may happen after the band as my reminder not to eat as much. Because right now (pre-band) I dont have any reminders that I over ate, till I get on the scale. I am a bordom eater and have a tendency to forget I ate.

[SherryW 4]

Foaming is when you're either stuck or nearly to the top of your stomach...you know one bite too much. You're esphogus starts to produce more saliva and because your pouch is full it has no where to go but up. It's light enough that you don't really PB but, if it keeps up you could end up doing that. Literally you get the foamy bubbles up into your mouth and have to spit it out. Sometimes the food will move down and it stops but, if you keep swallowing the saliva/bubbles you will end up pbing. I take it as a warning and start pacing around to help the food move down. Some foods just don't sit right and this will happen. Not everyone gets it but, usually most have it at least once until they learn what their limit is Sometimes it happens not because your stomach is too full but, you've eaten something your tummy just doesn't like. For me it's pork...it's a no no lol