I've had band to close to 2 years and for the most part have been very happy with it. However, for about the last month or so, my stomach makes loud growling noises. When I drink my 1st cup of coffee in the morning, I can hear it gurgling down and around in my stomach. When I was at the dentist and laying there it was growling and groaning enough that the hygenist asked "what in the world is that"? When I eat, I can hear it going down and moving around. Is this normal or do I have an alien in my tummy??

Did you have a fill just before this started?

That's what happened to me. I just had .2 removed yesterday and the strange noises have stopped. I think, for me, those loud grumblings mean I'm too tight. I would hear them after every meal for at least an hour. I would also have to listen to everything I drank. I had other clues that I was too tight (reflux). I just never put it all together until I told my doctor about everything. I just hope I don't lose the great restriction I had.

Cindy

I haven't had a fill since September. I really don't think I'm too tight; I don't PB very much. Only when I eat certain foods that I know I shouldn't because they cause problems - like eggs. I have had some reflux since Christmas time. About 1 x a week. I thought I had just eaten something spicy, etc. However, I ate a LOT of salsa yesterday on my quesadilla and had no problems at all. I'm scheduled to go back to dr in April for 2 year check with blood work and everything. Were you PBing a lot when you were too tight?

I really wasn't pbing much at all, but I wasn't eating all that much. I wasn't hungry, because my meal stayed in my pouch for hours. If I drank even 2 hours after my meal, I could hear the Water gurgling through everything. I was pretty much eating a half a cup of chili twice a day. I thought my band would loosen up after the fill, but I waited 6 weeks and it didn't.

Cindy

I will admit that when I start to hear the digestive sounds, I generally start feeling 'sick' right after and end up p/bing.

I've always blamed it on the pouch being so much farther up the tract that you can actually hear what is the normal digestive action usually done in the stomach. :smile2:

BUT wouldn't give up my Band for anything!!

My stomach does this all the time. For me it makes no difference if I have just had a fill or not. Sometimes it is before I eat sometimes after. It happens frequently when I am lying in bed and has even woken me in the night.

It feels kind of weird but its not really doing me any harm so I consider it to be part of my new normal.

Did you have a fill just before this started?

That's what happened to me. I just had .2 removed yesterday and the strange noises have stopped. I think, for me, those loud grumblings mean I'm too tight. I would hear them after every meal for at least an hour. I would also have to listen to everything I drank. I had other clues that I was too tight (reflux). I just never put it all together until I told my doctor about everything. I just hope I don't lose the great restriction I had.

Cindy

I had this grumbling this month for the first time either when eating or drinking. I mentioned to my doc she said it means i am slightly too tight - she took out .1 cc and i'm fine now. I remember when i got my first fill the NP said the same thing you will hear gurgling if too tight - like a Water cooler making the bloop bloop bloop sound if that makes sense.

DH is banded too and both of our stomachs go crazy when we lie down at night.

i quite frequently gurgle when I drink and always when I am in enclosed spaces, that are quiet with someone else to hear, my stomach will suddenly let out a huge noise.

What I get is not rumbling but air moving up through the contents. It sounds just like a huge burp without the actual eruption of air out the mouth, but people do assume I've just burped. Its pretty embarrassing.

Mine does this too. Especially when I'm in a quiet room with people, it's quite embarassing.