:embaressed_smile:I have had the band for over 1 year now. I am a food gulper and have been struggling to "chew" my food. When I first got the band, I PB'd every day, now I am down to two or three times every few months. Does anyone else still PB after one year? What damage if any is being done to my band? If you have stopped, what did you do?

I find that I usually PB when I eat without thinking, for instance I am in a rush to go out. Doddie

Never before in the history of man, has the stomach ever been divided into two parts for weight loss.

Perhaps with our new surgical techniques in weight loss, we needed to offer up new vocabulary for bodily functions, such as productive burping and sliming.

By definition a productive burp is different in than vomit contains stomach acid and is involuntary.

A productive burb may is caused by not chewing food enough to pass by the lap band, or by filling the stoma to overfull. A half cup will only hold a half cup.

Sorry, I just had to throw that out there for discussion.

It is NOT "all vomit". A stuck bite never makes it to your stomach. It is stuck in the esophagus and cannot transit (at least easily) into the pouch created by your band. Slime is generated to make it easier for the stuck bite to move...one way or the other. When you truly have a PB, it may seem like a cough and out comes the bite. It may come out forcefully even. But it is NOT accompanied by stomach acids and the entire contents of your stomach. That is vomiting. It requires muscle spasms/contractions to vomit. Regurgitation is much less complicated and uses only the mildest reversal of peristalsis.

Personally, I don't want to PB and I try to avoid it at all costs. And I usually do. Vomit? My gawd, I would lay on the bed and pray for deliverance from the possibility of vomiting. I can't even stand to hear someone else vomit. All that stomach acid and bile coming back up is just about the worst thing I can imagine in life.