When does the gurgling stop?

[CoffeeBean 4]

I feel like a kitchen sink. When I eat any solid, I gurgle for about 10-15 minutes after. Anyone experience this? I'm 6 weeks post-op. When might this little inconvenience stop? It's so loud. I hope I'm never in a quiet room with my co-workers after I eat. I STILL LOVE MY SLEEVE!

[DivaDee84 12]

I'm almost 4 months out and still experience it..

[AutumnLily 77]

I actually do not remember when it stopped for me but just so you know I am 8 months out and it has not happened for a long time now.

[lessofme2010 25]

Did you like Dr. kelly???

That is who I am going to on November 10th!!!

Hope someone can help you figure out your gurgling ..

Julie

[sleeve 4 me 910]

Can you believe I am 14 months out and I just noticed it's barely stopping...it's crazy.

[FlyGirl 18]

I'm 11 months out and still have gurgling and hiccups after everything I eat and almost everytime I drink...

[LindaS 316]

I'm 9 weeks out, and I had stopped gurgling for a while. I recently started eating an unrestricted diet and gurgling returned. I notice it most when trying to go to sleep. I sometimes hear it and don't realize it is me.

[DollyGirl 0]

Oh gosh...I'm less than 3 weeks out and sometimes I feel it sounds like the empty cycle on my dishwasher after I eat solid foods LOL! It sounds like it might last for a while, thank goodness I eat lunch offsite at work, hopefully being outside will muffle it a bit.

[JackieOMonroe 123]

I'm 4.5 months out and my throat gurgles all the time after I eat. I can feel the air bubbles pushing up into my throat. What I think is happening is the kind of effect you get when you turn a full bottle of Water completely upside down. You know the way the air forces its way into the bottle while the Water is pouring out? That's what I think is happening with the gurgling. I think air is being forcefully displaced while food moves down my esophagus and into my tummy. I'm totally making that up though, so I could be wrong.

Here's a video of what I mean if I didn't explain it well.

[Sassygirl06 962]

im 2 and 1/2 months out and it stopped for me already. i still get the hicups that someone else mentioned though, and its not always when i eat....sometimes it just randomly happens.

[Bona Fide Diva 3]

I know this is a late response, but I'm searching out this topic.

I'm 21 months out AND IT STILL HASN'T STOPPED.

its SOOO loud sometimes, I frequently have to eat alone, because I'm embarrassed.

[Ihave6kids 29]

I'm 17 months out and it still happens to me too. It happens at church and it is embarrassing.

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Hmmm... well I wish I had better news for you but I'm 15 months post op and I still gurgle from time to time. Depends what I eat mostly now, but it's usually things like bread or similar. It's not often though, but I do!

[Douceur72 3]

Just found this old post and have to respond….I am 7 months out and this is by far my least favorite side effect. It’s not belching, just a loud gurgling in my throat that I have no control over. Mostly occurs after I eat but sometimes liquids cause it too. I HATE it!!! Seems to happen at the most inopportune times such as during an important meeting, and I am positive the entire room can hear it. It was my choice not to share the fact that I had surgery with anyone at work, and I feel so unprofessional when it happens there.

Overall I’m very happy I had the surgery, but really hoping this embarrassing side effect stops eventually!

[Helen the Cat 42]

Well, I am 7 1/2 months post op, and just the other night I was laying in bed, noticing how much my stomach gurgled! Most of the time I don't pay any attention to it, but sometimes, like when I am trying to go to sleep it is annoying. But I wouldn't trade the gurgling to go back to weighing what I did before the surgery for anything! I am SO loving what I weight and the size I am now!

Have to tell you a funny story that happened today. I was living/working in California last June when I had my VSG done. I did see my PCP in June shortly before I had the procedure done, but hadn't seen him since till today. I moved back home in December of last year. So today I had an appointment to see my primary care physician for the first time since I had my VGS done. Just needed to get my routine meds refilled. Well they always lead you to the scale on your way to the exam room. I jumped up on it ( I used to tell the nurse I declined to get weighed!) and she read the digital readout and went to write it down. It said 162, which is about right. I weighed 160 buck naked this morning, but at the doctor's office I had jeans and my boots on. All of a sudden she says "what is your name again? And when is your birthdate? When were you here last? The last weight recorded here says 260, we must have the wrong chart, or the nurse wrote the wrong number last time you were here." I laughed and told her she had the right chart, and the weight last June when I was there WAS 260 pounds. She was astonished. So she started asking me questions and I gave her a short course on Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy.