How bad is your gurgle and can you control it?

[DoOver 17]

As I am weaning off PPI's I am starting to gurgle a lot. I've been on business calls talking and they hear my gurgle. Can you imagine? So have people learned tricks to control it? I don't want to take the PPI's just to stop the gurgle. But I have to tell you the gurgles are pretty loud. People don't know what to think since its not quite a burp but yet an uncomfortable body sound. Awkward......

Hints and tips appreciated.

[Indymom 132]

I have to take my PPI for a year so I don't have gurgling yet, but I would just laugh it off when it happens, if it's around lunchtime maybe make a joke about being hungry or something?

[dramagirl28 22]

I kinda like my gurgles. I feel like it makes me more aware of my body. Of course I'm only 6 days out and not back at work yet. We'll see...

[Luanne 32]

My dinner companions definitely can hear my gurgling & see the expression on my face also! = I just laugh! Plus I'm still on a PPI...WHEN/IFare we supposed to stop taking them?

[To Be Thin 2011 80]

I am almost 8 months out... I deal with loud, abnoxious girgles and it is very embarassing to be in a meeting with 7-8 people around a table and your talking business then I have these loud sounds... I have not yet found a trick to hide it, but I have put a connection to eating to fast and waiting to long to eat... Sometimes I just cannot stop and eat like I should, so then when I finally do get to have my lunch it is usaually hurried and when I hurry too much.. the girgles come out later!

[butterly 0]

I am almost 8 months out... I deal with loud, abnoxious girgles and it is very embarassing to be in a meeting with 7-8 people around a table and your talking business then I have these loud sounds... I have not yet found a trick to hide it, but I have put a connection to eating to fast and waiting to long to eat... Sometimes I just cannot stop and eat like I should, so then when I finally do get to have my lunch it is usaually hurried and when I hurry too much.. the girgles come out later!

i'm a sleeved newbie. May i ask what PPI is?

[Soon2BMiniMommy 92]

Oh my gosh, I SO have to laugh at this. I don't know about all of you, but I never had gurgles before, because I have NEVER allowed myself to get hungry..... But I can't tell you how many times I have been with a 'naturally thin' person and have heard their tummy growl something fierce when they're hungry! It makes me laugh because maybe this is normal from our little tummies being empty, like normal thin people, but we have no experience with it because we were always overweight and overfeeding ourselves??

I can't say for sure yet, but I think I will enjoy my gurgles and growls....it will be one of those things that will make me feel 'normal', if that makes sense!

[DoOver 17]

I'm glad there are those who enjoy this but it's a real negative to me. I can't find any connection. I often girgle more on simple Fluid than I do with food. To me this is no different than letting out a big belch. I have business meetings and phone calls that are done on a head set. The people actually have heard it over the phone. I think it creates a very unprofessional image. I understand there's not a lot I can do about it but I can promise you that if I sat in a meeting room burping my head off, it would not be appreciated and I suspect this isn't either.

I'm finding it very frustrating. I thought the further I got out, the less it would happen. it's actually happening more.

[staceybea 0]

I was posted on the 16th and am having this same experience. Yesterday while in the office it was so louded that some may have thought I was passing gas...very loud and very embarrassing. I am not taking any meds, is a PPI a med and does it help?

[DoOver 17]

I was posted on the 16th and am having this same experience. Yesterday while in the office it was so louded that some may have thought I was passing gas...very loud and very embarrassing. I am not taking any meds, is a PPI a med and does it help?

The PPI is to alleviate acid reflux condition. It's not a drug you want to be on if you don't need it for the acid reflux issue. I can't see any rhyme or reason as to why it's something there and sometimes not. For me, I can't tell any difference between before the PPI, on the PPI full time, and now weaning off. I've gurgled pretty much from the day I moved to mushies but not all the time. One of the worst, loudest is sometimes when I lay down at night to sleep.

Mine reminds me of when you unplug a toliet and you get that woosh of the release of the plug. It's like there's something stuck toward the top an it suddenly breaks loose to move on through my stomach. I KNOW someone thought I was sick one day because she told me on a break that if I needed to go home, to please do so as my "being on the verge of vomiting" was making her nervous. I felt sooo bad. I know that feeling of anxiety of being around someone you think is sick. I was just glad she told me I was stressing her out. I excused the situation by telling her I was having a very difficult time adjusting to digesting my food after having my gall bladder out but that I felt fine. When we went back into the meeting I whispered to the guy beside me that I felt like I needed to make an announcement that I was not sick and to your point he said..."yea, just tell 'em you're a gas bag". It was a fun sleeve day.

I sure hope this isn't a life time condition with this. I can tollerate it for a year, but I just hate to think I'm going to be like this forever.

[klus263 9]

My gurgles was the worst right after surgery. I am now 9 months out and still at time get gurgles but it is not as bad. I work from home as a customer service rep and also on a headset all day talking to people. I have not have anyone say that they could here my gurgles. As other as pointed out, it seems to be worse when I eat too fast or when I am trying a new food. I also think it happens more to me when I have fruit. Keep a food diary and write down when it happens so you can see if it actually food related. I had the gurgles both on and off the PPI.