I have been reading a lot of posts on this board to get info before my surgery which will be on 3/5. No one seems to mention vomiting, although the one person that I know who has been banded has a big problem with that. Also what is PB ing? thanks, mags

PBing is very close to vomiting. The difference is when you PB, what comes out is what you just ate, so it's not digested like when we vomitted before.

I try not to as much as I can, not only is it not a lot of fun, it's not good for the band.

lisah25 is right. The thing that can be confusing is people sometimes use the terms vomiting and PBing as the same thing. So when someone with the band says they vomit all the time it's hard to know exactly what they mean. Many people with the band PB pretty often (although it should definitely be avoided). But on the other hand I don't think there are really very many bandsters who truly actually vomit very often.

It's a difficult thing to define, because to a lot of people, when they PB it seems to them very much like vomiting. When I PB it seems really different from vomiting because there is little or no convulsion in the stomach, and the material that comes up does not taste bad. So it seems really different to me.

so does that mean that eating in public can be very embarrasing? I mean what do you do if this happens in a restaurant..is there time to get to the restroom?

Yes, there is time. When food won't go down it hurts, but it just sits there until you "let" or "encourage" it to come up in the restroom.