What is sliming

[Idgett 0]

I have tried searching this, and I guess I just am not good enough at the search thing.

Can someone please tell me what sliming is? :confused2:

[Idgett 0]

I found it. YUCK and OUCH:confused_smile:

[Kat817 19]

YUCK pretty much covers it!!! Sliming in an of itself is not painful---oftentimes what leads to making you slime, is however. The slime is tasteless, it is just incredibly thick saliva. Your body produces it to try to help whatever is "stuck" on through. Sometimes---tho rarely---when something really is stuck, it does help! Usually the body perceives it as something being stuck when in actuality we have over eaten with the band. When that happens or when something is well and truly stuck, there is nowhere for the copious amount of slime to go, so you either spit it as it happens, or if you try to swallow it all, you end up in a full blown PB---as it overwhelms the small pouch.

The sliming issue is not limited to bandsters. EVERYONE does it, even if you are not banded! My DH choked on a bite of chicken, it actually went down past his trachea so he could breath, but it was stuck, and nothing would go down, and it would not come out---he had to have it cut out with a scope! BUT the point being, he slimed like a professional bandster!! And he is not banded!!

It is triggered same as your mouth fills with excess saliva when you vomit----same type of thing. It is just that with our tiny pouches, there is a serious limit to what we can handle, and that much slime is out of the question!!

Kat