Hi everyone, im a unniversity student in my last year , doing an accounting major.This happened to me today, i was in the middle of a class, and bam i needed to vomit. I also felt weakness and dizziness, i puked white foam. The funny thing is that my blood pressure was normal 130/80, could it be gerd, i also felt like something was fucked up with my throat like an itchy feeling. Thanks all in advance

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i dont know what that white foam is either. I have had it about 4x since i ve been banded. (February2011) I think mine has occured when i i ate my salad with vinegar and also it occurs both time when i fell like i have too much liquid in my pouch that wont go thru. then i will vomit and it will be the foamy stuff. LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND OUT!

The foam is what we bandsters call "slime". It happens when you get food stuck in the stoma or when you have eaten too much. Your body produces extra saliva in an attempt to move the food along in the digestive system. Make sure you chew every bite well and stop eating when you feel your soft sign/full signal. This can have a delayed reaction....like when you are in class or in the car on the way home from eating out.

Well Humming bird, i think your right cause actually i work out and i'm into proteins and fibers as much as i could. Most importantly i eat healthy food, do you think its indigestion and if so does it cause nausea and feeling lightheaded. My family doctor suspects that its bacteria. Thanks all for your help!

If its like a ball of foamy spit it's "slime". It's not indigestion or bacterial. It's simply mechanical and how the body works. It was explained to me (I think here at LBT by a doc) that the esophagus works like a switch. If there is food in the esophagus, it will first try the down swich ...... if there is no room in the pouch, it will try the up swich ....... The body's normal digestion process starts with saliva production. This production is increased greatly when there is food too high up in the pipes or when it feels something stuck in the pipeline. As we produce more saliva we swallow more air with it in the process. It makes the event worse, and then the nausea sets in. It is something most bandsters experience. It is part of the learning process of figuring out how to work this crude tool called the lapband. I got so grossed out by this process that I learned fast how to avoid the situation again.

I make sure I chew every bite well. I don't chew the food to a liquid state or so much I get grossed out, I just make sure everything is well chewed. I listen to my full signal and stop even if there is only one or 2 bites left on my plate. When I get that full signal, those last 2 bites go in the trash. I also learned very quickly there are some foods I may never be able to eat again and I don't miss them.

I'll give you 2 examples: I will never eat eggs again ........ I tried them 3 different times in the first 18 months. The first time was in the mushy stage when they say eggs are ok .... NOT! a couple bites and I was in so much pain I thought I was going to die. The second time I had been on solid food for months. I slowly ate a hard boiled egg ....... threw it up shortly after I ate it. The 3rd time I tried some scrambled eggs at 18 months post-op....... The result was a ball of egg yolk colored slime!!! ewww!!! I no longer crave eggs.

I have had a very hard time with dense meats since day one. I was trying every type of protein I could think of. .........the results of one of these tests was a ball of spam colored foam floating in the toilet after I had to throw it up ..................ewww! Don't even ask why I tried spam.....