Hi Everyone,

I recently responded to a post about how fortunate I have been to have only PB'ed less than 7-8 times over the last 2 1/2 years. Well todays violent PB and subsequent vomiting is the worst experience I have had so far since I have been banded.

I made a 10 lb turkey since they were on sale and we did not have one for Thanksgiving at my house. All afternoon, the turkey was beckoning me. It was the butter basted variety.... The smell was driving me mad so I decided to eat some. I had about 3 pieces totaling about 3 oz of the dark meat. After the third went down, I got a huge golfball. Normally if I wait it out or dance around a little, it will go away and pass through. This was not the case. It was stuck. I tried a sip of warm Water. It was backing up in my throat. I waited and now just searing pain and pressure in the middle of my chest. After about 5 minutes, I knew it wasnt passing through and I would have to force myself to vomit by leaning over the toilet.

I barfed and immediately felt better. I jumped in my car because I was late picking up my son from school. I got to the traffic light and knew I had to barf again. I pulled into the parking lot of Sams Club and barfed again. I jumped on the highway and took a small sip of water. I just knew I had to barf again but I was late and I didnt want my son hanging outside alone at school. I contemplated barfing into a chip bag I had in the car for my sons afterschool snack. But it was full of baked potato chips and I would have had to pour them out on the seat of the car. I was driving 65 miles per hour and didnt think pulling over on the highway was an option. I keep dry heaving and holding back the slime.

15 minutes later, I pulled up to my sons school. He jumped in, I went one block and pulled over on the side of the road and threw up like 3-4 times. I actually knew when I was totally better because the "stuck turkey" dislodged itself. I had already vomited 6-7 times and I am not talking slime only but the contents of my stomach. I felt better and continued on my way. Holy sh#@%%. I dont want that to happen again. This is the second time this year that turkey did me in. Its so weird that I can eat steak, bread , rice and other difficult bandster foods but for some reason turkey gives me problems if I eat it too quickly. Even us tenured bandster can forget and eat too quickly and cause ourselves pain. SO there, I survived, but was a crappy experience.

Have a great night!!!

Babs in TX

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I am brand new to all this, and I'm getting really scared about eating. I had surgery 8 days ago and am eating soup, yogurt smoothies, etc. with no problem. Does everybody have trouble with PB's and vomiting when they start eating real food? I thought if you just chew everything to death and eat slowly, you feel full and then stop, that everything would be cool. But from what I've read that's not necessarily the case. What do you guys recommend to a newbie like me, in terms of how to start eating and avoid problems? I do not want to go out to eat with my husband and puke in a napkin...

I would say 'stop when you feel ANY kind of funny feeling what so ever.. I avoid all those Pbing and other things by just doing that.. sometimes you may be hungry still though, just have more liquid stuff..

Dear Lord! I do not want to have a PB that bad! So far my worst PB was on a pickle. I know! But I love em!! Now I just drink pickle juice!! :high5:

i am a new bandster (surgery 2 Dec 05) i have PBed 4 times over the last 5 weeks. just little ones, i slimed, then threw up a bit and felt fine after. yesterday i had one that was terrible. i had a tuna sandwich at lunch. i could not eat the whole thing, so i brought it home for dinner. i ate it too fast....and threw up 3 times. it was horrible. i feel very sore this morning. planning on fluids for the weekend.

for me, it is all about eating very slowly. i can eat about anything, but i can not rush it, or i am in trouble. (pre banding i was a sprint eater....i would throw something down my throat in record time....that was a behavior i knew that the band would help me get away from...and it has) the only thing that concerns me is that the golfball feeling or a pb is what stops me from eating. i am not getting the full feeling after i eat. i am hoping that comes after some more fills!!

best of luck with the band. it is the best thing i have ever done for myself!!

My longest pb was from a tiny bite of one of thos golden tiny pretzel rounds. Bad thing is I was riding in the car with someone and couldn't just pull over, and the longer you hold it the bigger it grows.

I tried that once, taking a drink to wash down the stuck item, OMG, did I learn really fast to never do that again. Maybe a tiny, tiny, tiny sip, but never a big drink.