I was eating grilled chicken on a bed of wild rice. It tasted so good that I flashed back to an old eating habit: focus on the next bite and the forget what's in my mouth already, swallow it.

The following happened over the 5 to 8 minute period or so:

First symptom: The first thing was the feeling I've had several times, the pain in the esophagus. Every other time it went away after waiting a minute.

Second symptom: Rather than the food dropping to Stomach#2, it just sits there like a fat guy behind 8 skinny ladies in a buffet line.

Third symptom: Drink a sip of Water. Not helping. It's not going through. Wait, this may not go down.

Fourth symptom: All of a sudden salivary glands were making saliva or something in substantial quantities.

Fifth symptom: Pain gets progressively worse until you feel like this might come back up if all goes well.

Six symptom: Pain got intense for a second and I spit up the large quantities of saliva and some very small bits of food, but then most of the solid food passed through and...

Instantly back to normal feeling.

Moral to the story: Slow down and chew you frickin' idiot.

haha.. reminds me of my first PB!

Hard boiled egg with salt.

I love the things.. Used to take them in two bites. So.. being an idiot and craving an old favorite I popped lower (larger) half in my mouth chewed a while and swallowed. I skipped a few of your steps and was hit with instant stabbing pain in my band area.. was the first time i could actually feel where the band was exactly!

Saliva glands went into serious over-drive. I reminded myself of that dog in the old movie Turner and Hooch, remember that one?

anyway.. Ran to bathroom.. half burp half puke.. up came the egg.

Don't think hard boiled eggs are on my list of favorite foods anymore.

Hey guys

thanks for posting. I'm just starting the "lap-band" experience and have wondered what PBing was actually like. It doesn't sound as bad as I had feared. I hope to not do much of it, but I am a pretty bad (violent) vomiter, so I was fearing what it would be like to need to purge my pouch. Thanks for the descriptive info!

Cheers~