Thank you Heartfire

shannybp · July 5, 2009

Heartfire thanks for responding. I am starting to fill better and the golf ball thing seems to be going better. Thanks for the advice I will defiantly take it. Also Thanks for the info on how to start a new thread. But what exactly does PB mean?

ParrotheadCathy · July 5, 2009

Here's a link to the FAQ section of this site:

Lap Band Surgery and Lap Band Discussion Forum - FAQ: LapBandTalk Forum Frequently Asked Questions

This will explain a lot of abbreviations. PB is the most mystifying because until you experience you still sort of don't get it.

You take too big a bite, don't chew a bite well enough, or maybe take a bite too many. You get stuck. You'll know immediately that you're stuck because it will feel terrible .... like some huge lump is in your chest. DON'T try to drink to wash it down. If I stand up and move around a little, a stuck episode may resolve itself. If it doesn't, it may come back up. This will be accompanied by a lot of mucus and foamy saliva that you're just going to have to spit out. That's a PB...when a bite of chewed food comes back up. It is NOT vomiting. There is no stomach acid involved. And, your stomach doesn't heave until it empties itself. It's just the stuck bite (and if you drank to try to wash it down, the Water or whatever that is sitting on top of the stuck bite with come up too). The relief is immediate and complete. It's not the most pleasant experience but the couple of times it's happened to me, it was such a relief to get "unstuck" that I pretty much didn't care what it took to fix it.