Popular Terms
 

1. PB -- Productive Burp-- Also the same as vomiting, but usually used when a small portion of food comes up because you have either:

a. Eaten too much
b. Not chewed your food well enough
c. Eaten something (like bread, or rice) that gets stuck

2. Slime- When you get something stuck, your body starts to produce thick saliva to try and pass it through the stoma. The saliva will come up and you will have to spit it out. If you PB the slime, it is like throwing up a jelly fish!

3. Lapband-- A gastric band device is introduced through tiny (1cm) incisions in the abdomen and is placed around the upper part of the stomach. The resulting pouch (or the "new stomach") dramatically reduces the functional capacity of the stomach.

4. Port -- This is the access port where a "fill doctor" will stick a needle filled with saline in, and "Fill" the band in order to have more restriction.

5. NSV: Non-scale victory -- a weight-loss achievement that has little to do with numbers

6. WLS: Weight-loss surgery

7. MO: Morbid Obesity (or morbidly obese)
8. BMI: Body Mass Index
9. GBP: Gastric bypass surgery
10. RNY: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (the most popular type of bariatric surgery)
11. DS: Duodenal switch (another type of bariatric surgery)
12. NSAIDS: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (a class of painkillers--which includes ibuprofen--bandsters should try to avoid because they can add to ulcer risk).


13. Slippage- Slippage or prolapse is when the stomach slides up through the Band, making the pouch bigger. If this happens the Band usually becomes too tight, and patients experience symptoms of reflux (heartburn) as well as nausea and vomiting. This is because the amount of stomach being “squeezed” by the Band is increased, thereby obstructing the Band.

Things that cause a slippage are if the band is not placed in the right position or is not stiched into place correctly. Patients can also cause slippage by overeating and excessive vomiting and or coughing.