need questioned answered please

Connie1968 · November 5, 2008

I hope this isn't an embarassing or dumb question, but I haven't had surgery yet and I have been reading posts regarding PB and sliming after meals. What is this????? I thought I was well informed about banding but boy, after reading posts on this site, there is alot I don't know! Thanks for any responses.

cattoy71 · November 5, 2008

Hi Connie!

pb = productive burping.

It's when you eat too much or too fast and the last bites won't fit in the upper part of the banded stomach. Since it has no where to go, it has to come up. People say it they handle it anywhere from coughing up discreetly into their napkin to having to excuse themselves to the bathroom to more or less throw up.

I think sliming is more when you eat too fast and your throat kinda brings up what you tried to swallow but it also brings up alot of mucus and saliva....I heard that this is pretty unique to people who get the band and there is a lot more mucus then you might expect.

Granted, I have gotten all the info from my research and I am just 3 weeks post op so I have luckily not experienced this yet :biggrin:

DanTheMan · November 6, 2008

I've actually never heard of the terms but I can relate what I have experienced in the 16 months since I was banded.

Burping sometimes helps the blockage pass. It kind of churns things up right at the band and gives it another chance to pass.

When I have a resilient blockage my mouth produces saliva like a waterfall and my nose runs like a kid running down a steep hill for the first time. It amazes me; the volume. My nose runs and runs and runs and the saliva, oh my. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Well, anyway, after about 5-10 minutes of being a bodily Fluid factory the discomfort of the blockage mounts and the body does the only thing it can. Uuurrrrrp! Mrrph! Pfftptp! Pftpt. (tmi?)

I've noticed that in the act of expelling all that saliva and nasal drip, sometimes with very little accompanying food, that the blockage often works itself out, er, down. Sometimes not, too. I suspect the stomach cramping during the act of vomiting plays a key role.

Oh, and I've never been able to spit anything up, into a napkin. Being a big burly guy, I either "go big or go home".

Edited November 6, 2008 by DanTheMan

tqtena · November 17, 2008

I hope this isn't an embarassing or dumb question, but I haven't had surgery yet and I have been reading posts regarding PB and sliming after meals. What is this????? I thought I was well informed about banding but boy, after reading posts on this site, there is alot I don't know! Thanks for any responses.

Hi Connie

I was banded 9-8-08. I too was really worried about all the PB and sliming talk. I have not had either of these things happen to me. PB is productive burp or so I've been told. And sliming is when you get tons of saliva in your mouth. If you chew your food really well with any luck you won't have to deal with either.

Edited November 17, 2008 by tqtena