I have had my band for just about 4 months now. I have been proud to say that I had not had any PB'ing and very little sliming. So, today I had the most AWFUL experience. I had some soft boiled eggs for breakfast this morning, no problem. For lunch about 2.5 hours later I grabbed some deli turkey and a piece of string cheese. I had about 3 bites of turkey and a bite of string cheese and then this pain hit me. I knew I had some food stuck. I started salivating insane amounts (slime I guess!) and that lasted a little more then an hour. I couldn't believe how much there was! Then finally I felt really nauseated and everything I ate today came up. I say everything because I could see little bits of the egg. So, my question is.... isn't a PB supposed to be just the stuck food? Why did it seem like I vomitted? Is this normal? I instantly felt 100% better. Also, I probably should do liquids for at least the rest of today, right? Sorry for the disgusting description!

mamato3:

Sorry you had this happen. I think that sometimes it takes more than 3 hours for food to flow out of the pouch to the stomach. So, you may have actually pb'd both breakfast and lunch. Especially if you started irritating things in there because I heard that it can swell. Swelling can cause the food to stay in the pouch longer.

I've had issues with eggs before. Scrambled was fine, but make it into an omelet and I had a hard time getting it down.

Hope you feel better, time to baby the pouch with liquids.

Take care.

Sue

I'm sorry for your experience. Do you think you just ate too big of bites or did'nt chew enough? Or are hard boiled eggs and string cheese just hard to get down?

I had an issue with deviled eggs. I love deviled eggs, but I won't be having them again in the forseeable furture. PB.

Hi All, I won't be banded till the end of May, however, it seems like a lot of people have prolems w/eggs, what about the egg subitutes or just plain egg whites, do you all have the same effects? Just courious, I will truely miss my Sunday morning egg and cheese omelts if I can't adjust the recipe to be band friendly, I was hoping the egg sub, would be easier but haven't really seen anyone mention them.

Have a great weekend all.

I was kinda thinking it was the turkey that caused the problem. But maybe it was the eggs still hanging out in there. Whichever, I don't ever want that to happen again!

Does a PB seem like vomitting when it happens for most people? I mean, I was heaving. It was way more uncomfortable then any vomitting experience I ever had pre-band. Sorry to be dwelling on this... it just was worse then I had imagined!

Mammato3, How long did the whole thing last and do you think it happened because you didn't chew enough?

The sliming lasted more then an hour. Then I got very nauseated and started throwing up... PB'ing, whatever it was which lasted 3 or 4 minutes I guess. I didn't have my timer. LOL

As far as whether or not I chewed well enough. I thought that I did, but who knows. There were no big chunks of food that came back up or anything. However, I am going to be even more cautious about chewing in the future.