Hi. I was banded on 7/26. Things are going pretty good. I've had some issues with solid foods, but I keep on trying. I had to laugh when I was reading about "slime". You don't know what this is about until it happens to you.

What does PB mean? :confused:I'm guessing it means to throw up, but I'm not really sure. Can someone please help this newbie so that I can understand the lingo?

Has anyone out there had issues with shoulder and neck pain? Even though I'm almost four weeks out from surgery I've recently started having shoulder and neck pain. The pain is almost like the pain after anesthesia, but goes up to my neck too. I think it might be from hurling so much since I started trying solids. I've hurled as much as three times in a day, but now only once a day, a couple of days didn't hurl at all.

Please let me know if you've experienced this shoulder and neck pain.

Thanks.

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f73/abbreviations-what-they-mean-7959/

This thread will help with the abbreviations we sling around.

Please tell me you called your doctor to discuss your problems with taking in food. Do they know about your "hurling" sessions? If not, please call them and tell them now. Some people do have delayed gas pains, sometimes the nerves that run to the shoulder and neck are irritated by things we have going on in the stomach/abdomen. After your "hurling" I hope you went back to liquids for a while. The irritation to the stoma can be significant.

Also, what was your post-op eating plan, should you have been starting solids by this point? If not, then why continue to try? If so, and they aren't agreeing with you, then again, why continue to try? Your body is a wonderful, marvelous thing and if it's not ready for something, it's not ready. Listen to it. Maybe you need to be on mushies or full liquids a bit longer. Really, call your nutritionist or surgeon. Your band is something you don't want to mess around with.

Good luck and keep us updated, please.

i agree with Faith (as usual). if you are 'hurling' with solids, why continue with them? your stomach/pouch are swollen, give it a rest and try liquids for a day or two.

I was banded the day after you and i still have the neck and shoulder pain. Sometimes real bad, sometimes not. Wish it would stop. PB means productive burp. ( or throw up) Donna

Oh and you should not be throwing up the way you are. Could hurt your band, Maybe you should back off solids or try smaller portions. Donna

Donna:

I found out what the shoulder and neck pain is. My esophogus was causing it because I was eating too much or too fast, not sure which. Had a horrible episode of shoulder and neck pain last night. Called doctor he told me to go to er and have chest xrays. They did chest xrays and then ct scan. Pain in shoulder was so severe they gave me morphine. Ends up it was because I had too much tuna fish. I had about a quarter of a cup! Anyway, now I'm on plain liquids for the next three days. I just need to pay more attention when eating to feel the full before it becomes overfull. Thanks for responding.