Question For Those With Serious Lap Band Problems

[Christina.Rose 287]

How much PBing were you doing before your major issues?

This next question will.sound Soooo stupid but......can you feel a difference between vomiting vs PB? I know the health complications related to vomit, and I also am not asking about the flu etc.

How many PB's do you have during one "session" of being stuck?

Did anyone feel Ok but were told you slipped or eroded etc?

How fast is papaya enzyme or pineapple juice supposed to clear you from being stuck?

I have been reading lots of scary sh*t and just started really using my band of four years and I want to know what not normal is! I'm like a born again bandster, lol. I wanna be safe.

[2muchfun 8,927]

Re: Vomiting.....If you've ever had a stomach bug/flu or a bad drinking binge/hangover where you feel like you're hurling your insides into the toilet, that is vomiting. And PB'ing is a simple little regurgitation of food at the bottom of your esophagus or top of your stoma. It's like a burp with food expelled instead of air.

Vomiting/hurling is a total contraction of your stomach as it expels food back up your esophagus. Since the stoma is so small, the violence of the food being expelled can cause the band to slip up the stomach and tear away the sutures holding it in place.

A PB is a rather innocent little burp that causes very little harm.

tmf

[hiddnstar 167]

Hi

For me, I had PBed just 2 times during my 2 1/2 years with a Lap Band. Once 3 months after the band was installed and once about 2 years after.

I know people who PB several times a day.

My surgeon lumped PBing and throwing up into the same thing (which I don't agree with! They are very different to me) - so when he waved his finger at me as I left the hospital and said, "No throwing up!", he probably meant "don't eat in a way that the food will come back up".

I was never told my band slipped, so I can't talk to that question.

My understanding of the enzymes some people take when they are stuck is that the enzymes start digesting whatever is stuck, so it eventually (and sometimes quickly) goes on down.

My surgeon told me to do this if I ever got stuck: Sit up, pray, and call him on his cell if it wasn't resolved in 45 minutes.

I never had to do that, but I knew people who did. He would meet them in his office and remove the Fluid from their band. Voila - no more stuck. But getting stuck not something you want to do. He considered it an emergency.

Take every precaution to never get stuck. That may mean eating very slowly and cutting food into tiny bites, chewing about a million times before swallowing, and of course choosing healthy foods your body does well with. I added the word, "healthy", because my body seemed to do just fine with cookie dough, Cookies, payday bars, chips, chocolate, etc.

salad and raw veggies, on the other hand, were out of the question.

I hope others will respond because it's really good info to share.

My band needed to come out because my body could not handle it. So mine was not wholly a complication with the band as most people mean when they write on here. But it is considered a "failed band" just the same.

I hope what I said was helpful, anyway

~hiddn

[Christina.Rose 287]

Thanks, I just want as much help as I can get so I can spot a problem in as little time as possible! Very helpful posts.