Sliming & PB'ing....

[Grandma26 1]

:eek: Ok...so I had my first case of sliming and PB'ing today..Now I understand! It scared the bejessssssus out of me. The liquid diet I was on for 14 days seems pretty good now if I don't have to look forward to that again!!

I had a small cup of Tomato Soup and 1-1/2 slices of deli roasted turkey. I thought I chewed everything to mush but I think one piece may have gotten down larger then it should have. I didn't see any large pieces during this episode but I don't know what else would have caused it. Any ideas?

[RestlessMonkey 7]

Sliming and PBing are almost always caused by operator error...either you ate too fast, didn't chew as well as you thought, or took too large a bite (or a combo of all 3)

I know it took me a while to really get into the rhythm of chewing well...I THOUGHT I was but wasn't.

And unless you're well filled/restricted, odds are you aren't too tight (which can also cause a PB and/or slime). If you had the meal for lunch and didn't get a good amt of Water in that could be a culprit.

And lastly...I can't eat and drink at the same time. That includes Soup. It's possible that your turkey was doing it's thing, clogged the stoma, and the soup swelled your pouch and hurt. Don't really know, of course!

Just watch it, and no soup with "food" for a while. Make it an either/or propostion (soup is usually considered not a good meal because it goes on through the stoma usually...no feeling of satiety)

[lessofm3 0]

Ok so sliming and pbing is this something that everyone goes thorough at some point?

[Grandma26 1]

Thanks RM-I guess I didn't think about Soup being a liquid! lol...I must have had a serious senior moment at that point because I don't drink anything 30 before/30 after. I will be more careful from now on.

I may have take a bite that was too large. I was pre-occupied while I was eating my lunch today and that put everything out of whack.

[Grandma26 1]

lessofm3...from what I hear if we aren't careful sliming and pbing can happen to all of us! As RestlessMonkey said "Operator Error"

[RestlessMonkey 7]

Theoretically a person could get banded and never "sliime" or "PB". In reality, it is very very rare; even the most careful of us often have a moment where we forget, or we are tighter than we thought, or something else happens and it comes UP.

I will tell you this: I had horrible visions of vomiting up onto my plate at a restaurant etc, it's not like that. (Not that that can't happen but it too is really rare LOL)

It isn't fun, I'll say that for it! And man, you really pay attention (at least for a while!) afterward!

My husband and I used to often eat in front of the tv (for shame, I know LOL) After I got restriction we started eating at the table (gasp!) and I realized that I was getting involved conversing with him and not chewing. So...the table made me PB! LOL ok not really. It's just easy to get distracted; you think you have it down and bammo! back to the drawing board. It's a process.