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My belly is sounding crazy! There is growling and gurgling and it's LOUD! I don't know how I am going to get through my first day back to work tomorrow. I am on full liquids, including Protein Shakes, so it's not like there is a lot of digestive work to be done! The gurgling (and gas) is constant no matter what I take or what I do. Tried Gas X, been walking... Any other suggestions or advice on what ta heck is going on in there?

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yeah i think it's just part of having the band, although when i am too tight the gurlging is much louder!

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Hi Kathy,

I head back to work tomorrow too! Even as I write this, my belly is making some angry noises. I just had an ounce of tea. I just try to ignore it now. I did have to return to the docs office on day 6 because I could not stop burping and belching, but after an un-fill, I was much better.

Good luck tomorrow.

Take care:)

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Ha! I'm almost 4 years out and until my band started leaking about 2 months ago, I still did that. And embarrasingly enough, it seemed to get worse during sex (lol, sorry TMI I know!). I usually don't have to explain it to anyone, but it's a little bit harder to ignore right smack in the middle fo getting intimate with someone!

It is part of band life, and after a while, you get used to it. I figure those noises are still better than most people's loud belching or flatulence!

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Interesting because this topic was my first post!

My gurgles seem to happen at night but honestly, no one can ever hear them when I'm sitting next to them. Similar to no one can really hear my stomach (the lower one!) growl.

My NP says it's "being really in tune with your band." Um. I guess so.

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My throat gurgles. anyone else?

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highland, yep, mine does too when I'm well restricted. My daughter calls them 'fruit burps' because I cannot burp properly when I have restriction.

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After being banded, I'd say the first week was the worst for stomach gurgles and burping! The burping hurt! Gas x helped a lot. I'm four wks post op tomorrow and the burping is a daily occurence. Esp after eating. I take it as my cue to stop eating. It happens around 1 cup of food, not every single time, but enough to make me notice that it doesn't seem to be a coincidence. I'm thinking if changing careers to be a professional burper? LOL my fiance says I can enter a contest now!

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Mine gurlges too, I always thinking of it as the food getting passed through slowly!

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Well a couple things going on hear.

1 is when you eat or drink and get the gurgling from the throat or burps from the stomach.

I will explain like it was explained to me from my Surgeon

You have new plumbing, and what you hear coming up is air,and it means your pipe is cleaned and open.

Get stuck and you'll wish you heard all these noises instead.

2 is just the stomach. It's empty compared to what its use to having, and liquids really don't do that much justice.

So thats all the stomach juices trying to find something to digest. But !, chances there's not much there.

As your stomach shrinks in a lot of time..... This will slowly go away. " the most of it."

Wen you get a fill, and stay empty, then again it will be back.

This is my Surgeons Info, and I believe it. It something to think about, and it makes sense.

Hope this helps.

Shirley.

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Shirley, your explanation does make sense. The gas after eating just fluids yesterday was horrible. It was uncomfortable and borderline painful. And from what I'm reading from long term bandsters it can be just a part Of normal life. I wish someone had told me this part before the band. I know the benefits will outweigh this but it would have been nice to know.

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You probably have not been stuck yet, thats a experience by itself, For me Taking Antibiotics "in this case" is a pain.

All it takes is 1 time or every day of putting down huge capsules, and I will swell up and stay swollen. As a result I will have to have 1.2 of the fill removed, and then start over again.

This is the second time for me, and they better learn that I need it in liquid form.

This is one of the worst things i think. I have to go in next Thursday when there up here and get a unfill.

I' look at it this way though, at least its not a slip. Its everyday living with the band.

I'll bet they never told you about this either. Keep it in mind.

Shirley.

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My throat gurgles, the way the band works is a bit likea blocked plug, liquid kind of chugs up and down it, it doesnt smoothly move though

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