Im just curious its happened to me twice so far... and im like freaked out bc obbbvvviiously i dont want it to happen that often bc i know its bad for u.

The two times it has happened it seemed like i was was toally in "old habit" overdrive mode (eating too quickly not chewing well enough ect ect)...its suchhhhh a hard habit to break but everytime! BUT everytime i get a PB im freaaaaaked not to ever let it happen again...so it makes me think more while im eating (so maybe its a hard lesson a bandster has to go thru in order to chang the habbit).

Just wanted to see if its happened to people more then once...and what are some of there suggestions as to stay focused while eating!

I'm 2 wks in being banded and have never come close to experiencing any PB as described - so do I need to have my first fill to know what you guys are talking about?

I didn't PB until I was 4 months out and had 2.0 cc fill. Never even came close before that. Right now, I've officially PB'd twice, on the same dang piece of chicken 2 days in a row. That'll teach me to eat dry chicken! That said, I've been stuck about 4 times total, just did the spitting up twice. The last one was a monster and lasted about 45 minutes!

I feel like I am missing something here! Zero times!!

It hasnt happened to me at all yet but I only had my first fill a week or two back and dont have an awful lot of restriction.

Ive started off a meal eating way too fast though and I've had one very close call.

I know I need an unfill but my jerk off doctor won't do it, and I don't have 100 bucks to go to another doc!

I had some slime once, but haven't thrown up any food. When you guys PB, does food come up too?

Knock on wood..I haven't had a PB yet, but I got a piece of lunchmeat stuck at work and I hauled it to the bathroom (nothing came up). It felt so strange like I couldn't breathe! It made it's way down and I learned my lesson--small bites and chew chew chew!!!

all the time about 3-4 times a week. yeah, I know, no one throw the popcorn at me! I have a very tight fill, but I am still maintaining my weight if I don't work really hard at exercising eveyday and keeping my calories really low. Sometimes I feel bulemic because I will eat something horrible and then PB and then feel better because I got to eat what I wanted but didn't get the calories from it. This happens on a rare occasion, but it happens. Oh well. I like where I am now.

I felt bulemic the first year, then the second year I got tired of doing that pbing and i didn't eat and started to become anorexic and this year i have no fill so i can try to eat healthy but am still not loosing enough but am maintaining.

I had some slime once, but haven't thrown up any food. When you guys PB, does food come up too?

If something was stuck in my throat and it wouldn't come back up, i would drink something and it would all come up and sometimes i just have slime/spit in my throat. But to answer your question, yes food comes up too.

I am two weeks post op and was wondering what do you do about pbing in public. Do you have time to go to the bathroom? I sure would hate to have to avoid going out to eat for the rest of my life.

Linda

If I'm in public and have to pb I head for the rest room pronto. Sometimes you dont make it, and well, that sux. My DH always has a glass of something so that if he gets the slimes he can deal with it on the sly.

When I spent amonth too tight I was PBing 3-5 times a week. But I got an unfill and all better.

I don't track the number of times.

Well, its very unpleasant, but i try to sit near a restroom, and it happens all the time out in public i eat out alot. I keep a plastic cup in my truck incase it happens, and i keep a bag by my bed if i have eaten too late. My whole family thinks it gross because usually when i eat i will pb at first bit and then stop. when i eat out, i try to have a brothy soup first, it relaxes my band, and i eat w/ ranch so i can mush up my fish or whatever i'm eating NOT STEAK!!!! not very healthy I know but being banded for 3 years I'm still learning

Do you mean a Productive Burp by itself or a Productive Burp followed by a slime?

when I'm too tight which i was for almost a month and that is why i'm giving my band a rest, i pbed every day all day and would try to eat because i was so hungry but it would come back up. luckily it didn't slip which has happend to me b4. I have had accidents out at resturants pbing and sometimes would use my napkin, but always keep a ziplock bag in your purse.

well it isn't a burp like after you have a coke to drink, but it is a very stuck feeling in your throat and with me usually follows by my left side of my back hurting until it comes up, then it looks like slime w/ food that i just have eatin comes up, so its not a full on throw up but almost and i'm sorry this is so gross. I can't believe I'm the only one who will get a tight fill and throw up all day even with water the first days.

I dont know anymore.

I need a clear definition of a PB

MY first PB:

I had a PB after I was filled in Mexico and it was this ordeal that lasted Hours and was OMG Horrific and OUT OF CONTROL and completely Scary.. It felt like I was choking the whole time. I was crying my head off, I was at the airport and slime just fell out of my mouth with no warning like every 10 minutes for 3 hours and my clothes were soaked and there was slime all around my bench outside as I waited for my ride at 1am..

MY SECOND PB:

THEN... it stopped.. THAN that morning LIKE A FRIGGIN IDIOT... I leaned off my bed, grabbed my pills (tiny little contin pills) and I took two with a tiny sip of Water or juice.... I CHOKED ON THEM FOR 9 hours... THEN they came up completely intact!

So for the next 30 hours I was gagging and spitting up on my own saliva, no other liquids were tolerated, immediate pain in my chest and spitting up that hurt alot.. I had an emergency unfill in my ER with a spinal needle (they had never done that before)

Soooooooooooooooo..

Thats what I think a PB is..

I have NEVER had one since.. I never plan on having one again.

I am very carefull and I stop eating or drinking the minute It feels weird.

I am affraid of the PB

BUT, I slime..sometimes.. From a tiny spit to a thicker kind of slimey gag.

Soooooooooooo.. I never feel a 'golf ball' feeling with the slime.. (LIKE I DID with those two PB's above)

BUT as I read, it sounds like a Slime is a PB??

ORRRRRRRRRRR WHAT is a PB exactly..

I know its called A productive Burp... BUT I ate a couple Cookies one night and felt alittle pain in my chest for 5 minutes and then I has a big hiccup and the pain went away... (it was a mild mild occurance, just one I usually dont get my self even close to) SOoooooooooooo, was that A BURP llike hiccup and it was productive??

A slime to me is when I take the first or second bite and I get this feeling that can only be releived by spitting it out.. No food comes out, just some slime and so I wait to eat till later..I DONT HAVE TO spit it out, it is just alittle annoying, so I do.. Its NOt choking and nothing is Stuck.. I just dont like the feelind and I spit it out and wait to eat till later.

I mean, I dont know IF I can eat until I try.. so If I try and get this feeling and spit out some slime, than I know I am not open enough to eat.

I know I rambled.. And that usually I ramble for no reason and I am not always open to people advising me.

BUt this time.. I am, I really really want advice and oppinions about this issue..

THANK YOU