I see a lot of people say they have problems with throwing up. Since I've been banded 5/14, I haven't thrown up at all but I've "spit up" a lot. I consider spitting up is what happens when you swallow too quickly/don't chew well enough/eat too fast. The food doesn't make it through the band and as such, doesn't have any stomach gases which makes it not painful. Does this all make sense? Or am I the odd one. Sometimes. if I drink too fast it will come up and still be as warm/cold as when I swallowed it. I don't consider this throwing up, since it never really went anywhere. I'm confused as to what to tell the dr when he asks if I've thrown up.

I just got a couple slight unfills because I was too tight and if I even at 3 tsps. of applesauce, 2 would come back.

One more question. When spitting up, how is it that my saliva gets so thick?? I believe that is called sliming and it's gross. I just don't understand how it occurs.

I have been banded almost 4 years, and have NEVER thrown up....I've gotten stuck and had it come up up and out, but that is not vomiting.

Truth be told, I'm scared to death of getting violently sick such as food poisoning, sea sickness, etc. Vomiting would come up from below the band..with a lot of force and contractions...

Techniquely, with the band, it's called regurgitation....

The "gross thick saliva" is a mucus plug that (I think) sits at/ near the band site.

I've had it, and other things come up. I've had stuck "things" come up from above the band and other nasty stuff from below the band. Below the band is way worse.

Always, the plug comes out 1st, in my case anyway.

Was wondering what affect a negative-energy-purging hyawaska journey might have on the band. Probably not recommended.

Probably should've done that first.

hindsight...

I did have the stomach flu about a month after banding and it is no Bueno!! Actual vomiting is completely different that spitting up or sliming. There's a different feel, sound and sometimes a vibration to the band when it happened at least for me.

I have had this happen numerous times I will swallow cold water to take pill or something and it will stick there and come up just as cold as it went in. It's weird. And not really considered vomiting.