What Exactly IS PBing?

[FinsUP 0]

I keep seeing this on here, and I'm not exactly sure what that means. Is the B for burping?

I was banded on 4/20, and I've had 3 fills since then; I'm now at 5.3 (was 5.4 but I just had her take out .1cc because it was too tight for me and I was getting stuck at every meal.).

When I "do" get stuck, it's very painful, hard to swallow, and I end up walking around the house, raising my arms over my head and taking some deep breaths. If it's really bad, I'm in the bathroom putting my fingers down my throat to try and throw up the offending piece.

This is coming from someone who is 52 yrs old, and I'd NEVER EVER THROWN UP IN MY WHOLE LIFE, until I was banded and got stuck.

Sometimes I throw up the slimey stuff, and sometimes the offending piece of food that I didn't chew right.

I know this is going to take some time, but damn, it's hard to relearn habits you've had for your entire life. I am trying my best, but sometimes I forget and eat too much, or don't chew it enough times, and it would get stuck.

The first time I got stuck was the beginning of June, when I was away with my step daughter, in Mexico, and I ate a piece of sausage that I didn't chew enough...holy hell that scared the crap out of me, and for the very first time, I made myself throw up. I never ever knew I even had the gag reflex so I could do it because even as a baby my mother had told me I'd never thrown up. Who knew?!!!

So..........now I've digressed...what is PBing?

Sometimes after a 'full' feeling in my throat, when the food finally decides to go down, I can let'er RIIIPPPPPPPPPPPP with the most awesomely loud burps, that just feel 'wonderful'. lol. My husband looks at me like I'm crazy, and I just give a 'woot'...YES!:biggrin:

[btrieger 21]

Somebody couldn't pronounce or spell regurgitate. So, they made up a new term and acronym.

Probably the same person that invented "Head hunger" instead of appetite.

[waterlily1072 5]

It means Productive Burp. Also known as regurgitating and vomiting. I had this discussion with my surgeon a couple of weeks ago. No matter how sugar coated a term is, if food is coming back up it's vomiting.

[FinsUP 0]

Thanks. I don't quite see the similarity between a burp and vomiting though - not the same thing in my books, but okay...

[Klisa 0]

Either do I but when you stick that word 'productive' in front of burp then it changes...kinda like when you say someone has a 'productive cough'...they are coughing UP stuff...a productive burp is burping up 'stuff'...

[Darlyne 0]

SO glad you asked this question! I guess I was in denial because I assumed that the slime-stuff wasn't really vomiting :biggrin:...Now I have to really take note if I do this more than twice a week (since my surgeon continually warns of band-slippage if it's 2+ times a week)-Thanks everyone for the gross (but neccessary) info!

[sue_nz 0]

For me, the difference is that PB'ing is like very soft 'burps' that come all the way up & are either slime (very sticky saliva), foamy saliva or chewed up food. There's no real straining or effort - you feel like burping but they come loaded.

After my 1st fill, the next morning I tried to eat porridge & started burping and feeling a bit uncomfortable. My mouth filled with saliva then next thing I burped all over EVERYTHING.

Had 1/2 cc taken out later that day and straight back to normal. I had NO idea anything was about to happen - except a burp.

[Humming Bird 275]

I think many people here use the term PB too often and in the wrong way.

For me, PB is more like acid reflux. You have air/burp kinda stuck. When you do burp you can feel like something came up with the air, but it goes back down.

If anything, including slime, reaches your stomach and then comes up enough to end up in the toilet or trash can, it is throwing up. There is no nice new term to change it from what it really is. It is a bad thing and can do damage to the esophagus, the stomach/band placement, and to your teeth.