Ok, I have more PB questions.:confused:

Which is more likely the cause of PBing for you:

food not chewed thoroughly?

or

The wrong type of food?

How long until you know you have a problem?

After a few bites?

After the whole meal?

Once you know you are "stuck", can you gag yourself and expel the offender?

Has anyone tried the meat tenderizer and does it work? Does anything else help? Why is it a bad idea to take a sip of Water? It seems like that would help lubricate and move the food along.

thanks everyone!

Both

After a few bites

Nope

Anything to tenderize meat should help. (Marinade)

Don't eat things you know won't go down

Putting Water on top of the pb, just makes it worst, it just sits on top, it doesn't go down.

Which is more likely the cause of PBing for you:

food not chewed thoroughly?

or

The wrong type of food?

The definition of the "wrong" type of food IS food that can't be chewed thoroughly, so these are pretty much the same thing. There are more reasons that something won't go down, and any of these might cause a PB. The worst one for me is one you didn't mention: one bite too many.

The only remedy for me has been to walk away, stand up, move around, possibly get some fresh air until my body ejects whatever it is by itself. I've only been able to induce ejection once or twice, and the result of that was to induce actual vomiting so I'm not inclined to ever try it again.

What to do? Just avoid it. Eat slowly, eat carefully, don't overdo it.

I have pb mostly from not chewing food/swallowing too big a bite and it usually happens when i take a bite standing up. Most meals when I'm focused I'm ok - but it's that piece of food when I get home to tide me over until the meal or eating while I'm preparing my meal.

I've only thrown up a few times - mostlly it sits there until it goes down but the throw up is the worst - i hurt for a day or so and try to stay on liquids until the swelling goes down.

It's scary and I wish i would quit doing it - i seem to repeat my mistakes even with this negative reinforcement - the BAND.

Ok, I have more PB questions.

Which is more likely the cause of PBing for you:

food not chewed thoroughly?

or

The wrong type of food?

>>>>for me its just NOT TIME FOR solids.. PERIOD.

How long until you know you have a problem?

After a few bites?

After the whole meal?

>>>>RIGHT AWAY..

Once you know you are "stuck", can you gag yourself and expel the offender?

>>>this is how I always do it.. It dont come up on its own.. I get lots of slime when I do this.. I am TRYING NOT TO DO THIS>. I dont even know if this is a PB or not.

Has anyone tried the meat tenderizer and does it work? Does anything else help? Why is it a bad idea to take a sip of Water? It seems like that would help lubricate and move the food along.

I dont know what your talking about.. lol

what does pb mean?

Which is more likely the cause of PBing for you:

food not chewed thoroughly?

or

The wrong type of food?

Option 3 - eating too quickly, no matter how well I chew. I have to put my fork down between EVERY bite, for my entire meal. It usually takes me about 45 minutes to eat, which is really annoying if I'm out with people who don't know I'm banded. Also, not drinking hot tea before I eat will cause an instant golfball.

How long until you know you have a problem?

After a few bites?

After the whole meal?

Immediately. No, wait, more like yesterday.

Once you know you are "stuck", can you gag yourself and expel the offender?

When I know that it's going to come back up, I usually just stand over the sink or toilet. I'll start sliming pretty quickly, and I have to spit all that into the receptacle. I have a very sensitive gag reflex, so usually the action of spitting a few times helps it come up right away. The problem I have is NOT being able to stop gagging once it starts. Especially when I feel food on the back of my tongue - I had a rice PB a few days ago, and those little kernels would not come all the way up until I gagged for quite a while. And then I get to the point where I'm gagging so much that I'm crying and I can't breathe...someone remind me why I did this again?

Has anyone tried the meat tenderizer and does it work? Does anything else help? Why is it a bad idea to take a sip of Water? It seems like that would help lubricate and move the food along.

I usually take small sips of hot tea at the beginning of my meal to make sure the first few bites are moving along. There's some sort of physics explanation about how water on top of a blockage creates a plunger effect, but all I can tell you is that it HURTS.

NewSho pointed out in another thread that we bandsters talk so much smack about RNYers and their dumping syndrome, but that PBing and golfballs are not any better. I thought that comment was really on point and deserves repeating.