what are the foamies

is it bringing up phlegm, like when you have asthma?????

I think, from what I have read that its like - you know when you are GOING to vomit..and your mouth fills up with fluid?  I think that's what they are= or maybe that's slime and the foamies are a frothier liquid?

I do not think its like coughing up lungbutter, like with asthma.

But I shonuff could be wrong!!

mydear - hellurrr!!   i love your screenname it reminds me of tyler perry  LOL!!

foamies may feel different for everyone but it's basiclly the term used to describe the closest sleevesters get to dumping.  it's usually indicated by nausea/dizziness/an extremely slimy feeling that happens right after you're overly full and right before you feel like vomitting (you don't necessarily throw up, but it feels like you're on the verge).   if you've got kids, try to remember morning sickness, now add being full, now add being full of something greasy that your stomach finds disgusting, now picture it being turned into a sudsy dollop.   why not just call it nausea? because it's worse than just throwing up, it's as though your stomach is literally talking to you and it's saying "now gurl, you KNOW you shouldn't have eaten that!"    On my 12th day out, my boyfriend came home with chinese food, i'd already had my yummy banana shake so i wasn't "hungry" i missed chewing.  he didn't see me grab an egg roll and run upstairs to evil-laugh.  you've never seen a human being enjoy the texture and taste of an egg roll as much as i had in that moment.  i never got to bite # 2 cuz for the next 40 minutes my pouch struggled instead of digested.    i knew before i bit it that i wasn't supposed to, the foamies  is your pouch's compliance reminder. 

I get foamies if i try to drink soda or if I eat too much...its like a ton of spit that won't die..it just keeps coming..it is quite gross...

ton of spit that won't die.   waaaaaay more efficient explanation.

Hello mydear!   I think, for me, the foamies are what happens when you eat too fast or too much.  You start feeling pain from your stomach to your throat.  I had sooo much excess saliva coming out of my mouth, I think I went through about 10 paper towels spitting it out.  It was horrible.   Took about 20 minutes to calm things down.   Eat slow and know when to stop!  I am new at this so I'm learning the hard way!

For me it was nothing like bringing up phlegm.  It was my mouth making tons and tons of slimy spit that just wouldn't quit for about 40 minutes.  It was enough for me to never want to over eat again.  I felt like I was oing to vomit and I could feel the food in my throat.  It had nowhere to go.  I think it is your body's way of trying to help you digst whatever it is that you've eaten to cause the foamies because saliva has digestive enzymes.  The only problem is that when mine happened I was too full to swallow the slimy saliva so it only made me feel worse.  Hope it never happens to you.

First of all, congratulations on being in the 200's.  If you've made it there without getting the foamies, chances are that you are smart enough and careful enough to avoid getting them.

Me, not so smart or careful.  I've had the foamies 3 times.  Twice on the same food (deli turkey) so apparently I'm really really not smart.  The foamies, like others have said, are your sleeve's rebuke for disobeying the "chew, chew, chew" rule, or the "slow, slow, slow" rule or some other rule that our doctors no doubt warned us about. 

They are a massive buildup of saliva (or something mucousy like it--it comes from lower down) that just won't quit.  You keep spitting and spitting and it keeps foaming up and up.  For me, each episode has lasted about 40-50 minutes.  I discovered that there are 2 ways to finally conquer them.  The first is to swallow hard enough enough times.  This worked for me the first time.  The other 2 times I was finally able to vomit and eventually my tummy settled down.

TMI, I know, but each time that I vomited, the actual food that caused the problem never came up.  Just massive quantities of mucousy whatever.

Avoid them, they are naaaaaasty.

the few times I've had them, I've had them until the offending piece of food came up.  Quite gross.  One of them was deli turkey, so I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that problem!

For me, when I have had it,  I cough and my entire mouth fills up with fizzy saliva.  It's gross.  I've only had it a few times, and those times have always signaled worse to come.