My understanding is that PBing means to vomit.

Why use such a word? Am I correct with this meaning?

To vomit is to vomit. Seems like a normal word to me.

It means productive burp. Or productive burping. It really isn't quite like vomiting because you don't have the stomach acid with it. The food just doesn't go all the way down.

I hope this helps.

I agree, while technically it's vomiting, it's different then when I got sick before the band.

LOL Im glad you asked that question because I felt like i was confused about that too . OR thought I was missing something but didnt want to ask .

Thanks

Mindy:nervous

I still don't get it. If it's just burping, why not call it

burping?

I'm 3 weeks and 2 days out from surgery, and I burp, but it's just

a burp. It's just air.

Am I missing something?

A pb has food in it, you are "producing" something with the burp. It is like a baby spitting up, no acid, I don't heave or retch when I PB, the food just kinds gets pushed back into the mouth. ~Mandy

I'm not crazy about the term "pb" either, I prefer "spit". It's NOT vomit to me, it's like baby spit, like Mandy said. If it's stuck and it won't go down, usually, for me anyway, it comes back with digestive juices, but not acidic vomit, more of a slime. Hope that wasn't too graphic for ya.

Then again, a productive burp may be different for you.

Ok, something between vomit and burp.

I've not experienced it yet, I guess. But

I have no fill. I'm hoping I don't need a fill at all.

Does that happen? Peopel who don't need fills?

buzz....you WILL need a fill. Without a fill you might as well not have a band in. What you have now is a band inserted in your body but it hasn't been rendered operational (or turned on) yet. You may not feel hunger right now because you still have swelling from the surgery. But when that is gone down and healed, you will feel just like you did pre-band. So, yes, you will need a fill. You will probably need a few of them to get to where you need to be for proper restriction. And as you lose weight around your belly the band will loosen and it will need to be tightened again.

It technically isn't vomitting. Vomitting requires that the stomach's contents be purged. When you PB, your stomach contents stay put.

It is called a "productive" burp because, well, it's productive. And "burp" because, well, best guess is that's the closest whomever could come to describing the sensation when they needed to give it a name. These aren't medical terms, keep in mind. At some point someone had to convey the sensation to someone else, and that's what they called it.

I call it "bringing up stuck food". For me, that's what really describes it. Here, and with others I know here, I call it "PB" because I don't care whether or not it's technically correct... the people who can answer my questions about it understand what I mean. Once you have one, WHO CARES what it's called, just make it stop!