I just had my very first slime/pb experience due to some chicken that put up a fight on the way down.

That was one of the most disgusting things I have ever experienced. :rose: The pain was pretty awful, too.

I guess this is just a cruel, extreme reminder to chew the hell out of everything. :crying:

God that was just GROSS and AWFUL!

Well it sure does take your appetite away, and then you don't eat some more, a little good, with the bad. All part of the learning process I suppose. Been there, done that....Maybe I'll get a shirt to prove it. LOL

Fun, wasn't it! My first round was with some scrambled eggs. They fought mightily....and won. Not for the squeamish. Live and learn....and pb and learn....and slime and learn.....

I just had a fill and I am pretty tight right now. If I pb and slime I just give up and quit trying to eat. I get popsicles and suck on those or eat a few almonds , when i can get them down. Last night i pbed almonds for gosh sakes. I know it will get better tho when I lose a few more pounds. Things will loosen up. It can be a pain in the butt sometimes. Donna

OK this may be a dumb question but I'm so curious! (I just got banded on 2/6/08) What does "PB" and "slime" mean??? I'd like to know so that I'm prepared...from the discussions...it doesn't sound like fun!! Sounds pretty bad! Please help me better understand what's in store for me.......

Lily

PB = Productive Burp (Who the hell came up with THIS term?)...This is when food goes down too fast or is not chewed enough and gets caught at the opening into the pouch. When it gets STUCK you get a knot-type feeling in mid-chest which indicates that the food isn't going anywhere. Sometimes you can suffer through it and it will go down slowly. Sometimes you need to go to the bathroom and "get rid of it" for relief. It is like a vomit without some of the accompanied "nastiness"....the food somes back in the same condition it went down in...just chewed...there is no stomach acid with it (like a regular puke...that nasty sour stuff)...and it is often NOT accompanied by full stomach contractions like with a regular vomit, more like it comes from the throat up and kindof rolls out of your mouth. The PB food coming up can be accompanied by sliming....

Sliming = When the stomach senses that food is coming, it releases mucus into the mouth and esophagus and stomach in order to help facilitate the movement of the food down the canal, greasing the pipes, if you will. When food is stuck, it's like a backed up toilet. The stomach goes "Oh, here comes food!": and starts secreting, but when the food doesn't move, the mucus backs up into your throat and mouth. You wind up have a huge mouthful of thick saliva (oh the bubbles you can blow! :-) )that must be spit out. Sometimes sliming precedes a PB, sometimes the food is just slow going down and you slime a little. Suffice it to say, it's worth a trip to the bathroom to spit it out.

WORD OF CAUTION: NEVER NEVER NEVER try to "flush" stuck food down with a liquid. It works on a regular body, but not the way we are constructed now. It is a recipe for disaster. Like throwing a gallon of Water into a clogged up toilet, it's gonna do nothing but sit on the clog and come back up.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Ahh, the memories of our first PB. Mine was on corn and I still remember the pain to this day. And, as mentioned above, I was pretty green and didn't know much about pb'ing, so the first thing I did was try and wash it down with water. That was the worst pain I ever experienced, and a hard lesson learned.

WORD OF CAUTION: NEVER NEVER NEVER try to "flush" stuck food down with a liquid. It works on a regular body, but not the way we are constructed now. It is a recipe for disaster. Like throwing a gallon of Water into a clogged up toilet, it's gonna do nothing but sit on the clog and come back up.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

i could not agree more with this!! my first stick, i figured i'd wash it down with a huge gulp of tea. well, let's just say the i did get unstuck, but it came up and it was rather violent with NO WARNING!

Kacee ~ Thank you SOOO much for those detailed definitions!!!! I gotta be honest...I am so not looking forward to that at all! It sounds so nasty!! I really hope that I don't have to experience it often!

Thanks again, I really appreciate it!! : )