Do you PB or SLIME with sleeve like the lapband?

[IrishGermanRN 151]

I am going in for a revision, lap band to sleeve. I could not take the PB or slime a few times a week. My band is considered a failure. Do you with the sleeve still have any slime or PB? I hated having to pull over the side of the road or leave from a restaurant because food would get stuck and I would have to vomit. frustrating.

Curious if this still occurs with the sleeve.

Thanks

[Pinkgirl1234 761]

I am revising to RNY because this band is misery....My friend who doesn't know I have the lapband just got the sleeve and she is doing the same thing...slime,vomit and heave....I did my research and I am revising to bypass...

[Pinkgirl1234 761]

My band has flipped....it really messed me up...that is also why I refuse to let anyone cut out 85% of my stomach....no way

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

If you eat too fast you can slime with the sleeve. I experienced it exactly once. I was out to dinner about 4 mths post - op and was talking so much I forgot to eat slower. That one time was all the reminder I needed. Currently 14mths out and no issues with eating.

Not sure what PB means.

[fernandfj 469]

I was sleeved five months ago and if I eat too quickly, too much or something too fatty, the slime comes. If it goes on for too long, you lose you food as well. It only happens a few times however, as you quickly learn what to do and how much to eat. I've learned to sample new food and if no reaction happens within about ten to fifteen minutes, I know I can eat it. I have also learned to eat slowly and to stop eating before I reach my max capacity.

[Emilie.Lancaster 189]

Please explain slime and pb to the newbie?

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

@@Emilie.Lancaster - Slime also know as foamies typically occurs when you eat too fast. It's a small space and eating too fast put too much food and air in a tiny space causing saliva to be displaced. So basically you are bring up slimey, foamy saliva. I can't say how common it is for most people. As I mentioned it happened to me exactly once in the 14mths since I have been sleeved. I haven't experienced any food intolerances and only foamed the one time from eating too fast.

No idea what PB is. My post-op life is pretty uneventful. I can eat pretty much anything I want, and I haven't vomited since I left the hospital.

[Babbs 14,680]

In the 16 months since surgery, I haven't slimed or vomited once. Just some regurgitation from GERD early out.

[IrishGermanRN 151]

My band has flipped....it really messed me up...that is also why I refuse to let anyone cut out 85% of my stomach....no way

Well... I've heard pros and cons of both. Are you not bypassing all your stomach in the bypass?

[IrishGermanRN 151]

Definitely sounds like you slime less or near not at all with the sleeve. With the band it can be a daily thing. very frustrating. looking forward to having it removed

Edited December 24, 2015 by IrishGermanRN

[Emilie.Lancaster 189]

@@BLERDgirl A-ha! I had foamies yesterday! I kept burping up the fish (that is new this week. I get fish!) I got trout at a restaurant and it was too dry, and I chewed the whale poo out of it, then on the way home, I kept burping foamy fish flavor into my mouth. Didn't get better until I barfed half an hour later. I'm not impressed with the foamies. Think I learned everything I needed to know from this experience the first time. Don't need to repeat it.

[IrishGermanRN 151]

@@BLERDgirl A-ha! I had foamies yesterday! I kept burping up the fish (that is new this week. I get fish!) I got trout at a restaurant and it was too dry, and I chewed the whale poo out of it, then on the way home, I kept burping foamy fish flavor into my mouth. Didn't get better until I barfed half an hour later. I'm not impressed with the foamies. Think I learned everything I needed to know from this experience the first time. Don't need to repeat it.

What is foamies?

have you had a lapband before?

[IrishGermanRN 151]

Please explain slime and pb to the newbie?

When banded the food gets stuck and causes excess mucus therefor causing it to slime.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

Please explain slime and pb to the newbie?

When banded the food gets stuck and causes excess mucus therefor causing it to slime.

For sleevers it often comes from eating too fast and the food displaces the saliva/mucus in your tummy and comes back up like slimy foam. It's unpleasant but as long as you eat slowly it shouldn't happen. In the early stages post-op some sleevers forget to eat super slow and have an issue with it.

I have never been banded. Sleeve is my only WLS.

[scotter 3]

I had a band to sleeve revision on Nov 5th and I have never experienced pb or slime.