Excess mucus/saliva (not every time)

I am the husband of a lap banded wife. She has lost ~55lb's total about 25lb's left to go. I have been doing all of the cooking and tracking so my wife can focus on exercise and her health. She was banded ~13 months ago to the day.

She got a fill about 2 weeks ago, the fill was done with the barium swallow and for the first week she was fine. The right amount of food was making her full and all around a good experience and got her back on track to loosing more weight.

In the last week she has been sliming something terrible, but it is completely random. Same food different days and one time she will create a full quarter liter of mucus, the same food the next day absolutely nothing. She has really been focusing on her chewing so we know it is not that.

There is no throwing up of the food in her pouch, and no PBing but the mucus is making her feel terrible and since it is random hard to eat at work.

Any idea's. She has taken Claritin and it seems to help a small amount but it is not reproducible, we tried some anti-bloating pills as well on a friends recommendation and it seems to help as well but again not reproducible.

So any idea's on what can cause random mucus/saliva, it's just not going down and her throat is really sore now.

 For me it is sometimes just eating too big a bite of something......and ******g off the band.

It seems like it will happen over and over (day after day) if I don't let my band rest.

So, if I have an episode like that, I try to have soup and mushy food for a day or so to let things settle down

She might try a day or 2 of yogurt and soups and see if that makes her feel better.

Sounds like she needs to get some fill out if she is doing everything right.  I had the same issues as her about the same time.  They ended up having to take all the fill out and a scope showed I had Esophagitis and had to be unfilled for six weeks to heal.

She really need to be seen by the doctor and unfilled some.  All thar sliming is bad for the Esophagus.

I too always went back on liquids after a stuck episode. Untill they got to be almost everyday (yes without rhime or reason as to when or why)

Hope this helps some.

Oh, yeah, I had to carry 32 oz cups around with me.
Good luck

Oh my, how do you handle that when you are in public or at a restaurant? This scares me as I am being banded 8/31 and we eat out every night.

I too eat out every day. I was banded six months ago. I have had one fill (3 cc) and have not had any episodes. Follow your doctors orders on how and what to eat. You will get good advise from the veterans here!

 unfill bc there are ill effects. the sore throat might be from reflux. Don't focus on the ramdom. it is happening and needs to be reported to the md 

 This sounds a lot like what I experienced.  Random sliming, foods that are ok one meal aren't good the next...
Could be a couple of things:
A) She needs a small unfill...Bette had a .3cc fill recently and had to have .15 taken out and she was fine.
B) Her band is doing what so many bandsters have been reporting lately, randomly tightening, causing those of us who have this problem to suffer a progression of symptoms; sliming, regurgitating pouch contents (sometimes hours after eating), back and chest pain, reliance on soft and liquid foods resulting in failure to lose, vagus nerve damage, excessive scar tissue, adhesion of the band to nearby organs (liver, pancreas and spleen seem to be most common). 
First off, with sliming happening, I would go on liquids for 48 hours to give the area under the band to relax and allow the swelling to subside.  Then do a food progression (much like post op) and see what happens...if she starts sliming, she needs to get an unfill.
I was having several of the symptoms I mentioned and had a complete unfill because the barium would only drip through my stoma (3.5 cc in an 11cc band).  The first 3 weeks, my symptoms continued, but after that they have been better AND I've lost 8 lb!  I continue to improve, but still have what I think is vagus nerve irritation and reflux if I don't take omaprazole at bedtime.  Don't ignore the sliming, it is a sign that something is wrong...good luck, keep us posted!

Because that's what the band does especially when too tight. It can take days or weeks sometines for a fill to kick in. Either way it needs some fill taken out or it will continue. The band is known for being fickle, what works one day won't the next, that's just the way it is. That is why I am empty today because I can't handle any fill anymore.