What goes down, must come up.

If you have had Lapband surgery, then you have heard of "PBing". Simply put, its throwing up. Well, not the throwing up you might be accustomed to, where you experience violent stomach spasms or contractions and then the expulsion of digested food while hovering over the porcelain god in a cold sweat. PB'ing is much less complicated and much less draining.

Pb'ing which stands for "productive burp" happens when you eat too fast,too much, or swallow too big of a bite of food. The food never reaches your stomach. It actually sits in your esophagus at the top of the band where it wont go through. So, now you have this lump of chewed up, undigested mass that wont go down. Dont even THINK about drinking anything with the false hope of helping the food go down. Its not gonna happen. As a matter of fact, it makes it worse.

I"ve made that mistake many times. What it actually does is add gunpowder to dynamite. The liquid you just drank is now sitting on top of the food that's sitting at the top of the band. What happens next? You feel really uncomfortable because this lump of food and water wont go down. You"ve made things worse with the friggin water. I forgot to tell you. You better not have gulped that water down to quickly either. Because in about 10 seconds, your ass better be at the toilet ready for the alien about to expel itself from your body at lightning spped.

If you dont drink anything, though, Its not that bad, really. I've found that all I have to do is open my mouth and out comes the offending matter. Now, Im not promoting this behavior, so relax. Its gonna happen, thats all Im saying. Im just preparing you. Try to avoid it by taking small bites, chewing till its mush, and wait 5 minutes between bites. Yeah, right.

I cant do that. First of all, I eat so fast, you would think it was my last meal right before going to the electric chair. I pb'ed constantly because even though I was "full", I wanted to eat more because it tasted so good. So, I was pb'ing to empty my band, so I could eat as much as I wanted. I would pb several times during the course of a meal.I would do this alone of course, so as not to draw attention to myself. Of course, I would feel so disgusted with myself for doing this.

Seriously, I was doing this on purpose for a long time and it ended up giving me heartburn after a while. I was taking Tums all day long. I just thought it was because I had Lapband surgery. It wasnt . It was because of me. So, Once I stopped, so did the heartburn. Go figure. I havent pb'd in 3 weeks. I feel like a junkie trying to get past the withdrawal stage. Can u believe this shit? I have an addiction to throwing up. Only me.