Hey All, it's been a while since I have posted anything so here's a little update. I was banded 4/19/10 by Dr. Curry in Cincinnati, Ohio. Everything is good, I'm down about 22 pounds but that could be more, but I'm having a small carb problem. :tongue2:

I had my first fill 5/19/10 it was all good, didn't feel a thing.

Now this week, all of a sudden I have a mouth full of saliva and I feel like I could puke any second. I keep drinking, eating mints, chewing gum something to get this to subside.

I have read the plethora of posts on saliva but I don't think this is the sliming thing everybody talks about. I can eat no problem but I don't know how much longer I can keep this swallowing spit thing up. It is absolutely disgusting! HELP!

Your best bet is to talk with Dr. Curry's office about this. It does sound like sliming, but that comes when eating, not at random. At least in my experience. Much of the time the sliming leads to the pbing. However, if you're not throwing up and if it doesn't feel worse that your swallowing it, then it sounds like something else. You didn't say how much you were filled. My fills never "kicked in" full force until about 3 weeks after the actual fill.

Just call to be safe.

ok i'm new to this but what is sliming or pbing?

ok i'm new to this but what is sliming or pbing?

Sliming is excessive saliva that begins to form due to a number of things: like eating too fast, taking too big of a bite, eating something that doesn't agree with you (like maybe fibrous foods, dry chicken, meat, bread for some). It can happen frequently when your too tight.

Pbing is when you actually "throw up" a little bit (maybe the last couple of bites) from again eating too fast, too much, too big of bites, being too tight, etc. Alot of times, the pbing is just the excessive (thick) saliva that has gone down and needs to come back up. Pbing doesn't always come with sliming, but it can and it's a signal that you need to pay more attention to your eating.

Hope that answers your question.