Throwing up thick saliva

I had RNY on April 4, I continue to eat soups and soft or crunchy foods. Several times a week I throw up very thick saliva that seems to plug up my stomach and keeps me from eating. Is there anything I can do to thin it out so it just goes down?

Hi Karen, I also vomit this saliva as well... sometime it is a lot at other times not so much. My MD says it is from eating to fast or eating too much.....I know neither is true....HOWEVER maybe for me even a table spoon can be too much as my connection betweent he pouchand intestines dends to swell if it is irritated at all.... so one meal it might be Ok ... and get irritated so that the next meal the is some swelling. DO NOT DRINK withmeals and remember to really CHEW your food. and streach the meal out for 30 mins. ALSO MILK can cause a problem. Try to keep a food journal and see if there are any connection to what you are eating to when you vomit. This will help if you have to see the MD again. IT DOES GET BETTER!

This is called "sliming"...means your body is trying to lube something down it perceives as being stuck. It can also be a symptom of a stricture, so please call your surgeon and have it checked out. Nancy 394/265/180

Thanks. I see my surgeon in about 10 days. I will talk to him about it. What is a stricture? Would I throw up every time I ate if I had one? Karen

?? You researched this surgery, right? Strictures are one of the more common complications...it's when too much scar tissue forms where the stoma was made and thus it's too small. To fix a stricture, it needs to be scoped and dilated and it can take more than one (and sometimes several) dilations to get it to stay open properly. My surgeon has written a great book on WLS "WLS for Dummies" by Dr. Marina Kurian...has a lot of the basics in it. Nancy 394/265/180

I to had this thick flim and a woman at my support group told me to drink hot tea 3 times a day that it would disolve the flim and wa**** out of my pouch so I started drinking decaf leptons tea with French Vanilla Coffee Mate in it as warm as I could stand and it worked I feel so much better .I hope this will help.Hope you get to feeling better

Hey Nancy, I just bought your surgeon's book and it is excellent!!! Peggy

The same thing was happening when I first had surgery, but mine ended up being a bowel obstruction. I couldn't keep anything down, not even water.

How did they repair your bowel obstruction? Did they just scope you outpatient or was it an inpatient procedure or surgery? Thanks.

i was reading old post on comp forum. was wondering if you ever got rid of that funky slime thing. hope you're doing great! vicki gabriel