I almost NEVER get the hiccups (like, maybe one time every other year). Since my surgery yesterday I have been hiccuping like crazy! Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal?

Yes, I did for the first 2 weeks. Not so much now, but sometimes! A lot of people here have posted that they get hiccups and burp more now!

I almost NEVER get the hiccups (like, maybe one time every other year). Since my surgery yesterday I have been hiccuping like crazy! Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal?

I find on days my band is acting up and I'm not able to eat much I get hiccups a lot.

OH YES, hiccuping like crazy. I am 9 days post op. I thought it was just me.

Yes I have been getting hiccups too banded wed and oh my do they hurt. It feels like they are stuck under my band and they are pushing up on the band and all my swollen tummy parts lol.

Hiccups are my sign that I have eaten too much and better not have another bite!

Yes! Right after surgery, I hiccuped and burped a lot. Now, I might hiccup or burp if I drank or ate something too fast. Taking smaller sips and waiting a little longer in between MIGHT help (your stomach is mad at you right now), but you might just have to ride out this phase. It will get better!

Day 3 and now day 4 not so many hiccups just muscle cramping feeling around the incisions. Thankfully I have some muscle relaxers for my back so I am taking 1 every so often and that really helps.

I find that I hiccup if I've eaten too fast/much. Also if something is stuck, the hiccup helps to dislodge it. My understanding is that hiccuping in gneral has to do with eating something too fast. I never liked them.

Try eating slower. My doctor's office preaches chewing till it's liquid and then waiting 30 seconds after swallowing to take the next bite.

Good luck!

same here. I also find that I hiccup after i eat to much or too fast. I think it has something to do with our diaphragm in the area.. I burp if I drink too fast. Or sometimes when I wake up. Ohhhh I'm embaressed. But what can you do..

With my first band I never hiccuped or burped. With my second band things were ok will I was slightly overfilled. Then I would get hiccups if I ate too fast or when my stomach was full and I had to stop eating.

Now I am a little unfilled and I only get hiccups when I eat too fast. It is a good excuse for me when I am out eating because that gives me a reason to stop eating for a while.

Also, I think that they may touch the diaghram during surgery, which just causes a temoprary bout of spasms. I am sure I read that somewhere else during my initial research. Good luck...I hate the hiccups!

I was just banded on the 14th (4 days ago) and I get painful hiccups and a feeling like I have to burp but it doesn't happen. I am on liquids and today I have basically had nothing. Each time I take a sip, I get the pressure in the middle of my chest and it hurts. It takes forever for it to go away. I am not having a happy day today..ps I am hungry

Hahahahh I love that the person above me wrote ps I'm hungry- yeah me to haha starving ugghhhhh don't even wanna think of a protien shake

My wife just pointed out to me this evening that I seem to get the hiccups a lot in that past few weeks since being banded. I guess I sort of noticed but didn't think too much of it. I did notice that while I eat WAY less I still tend to eat fast. Maybe I just need to concentrate on slowing down.

My chiropractor told me today where the pressure point is for hiccups. It's directly on the side of your left hand, just down from the pinky but higher than the wrist, .....she says put pressure there and it will stop them....