This may seem like a silly post but I cannot control my stomach growling. I mean it is loud and my co workers keep staring. I do not feel hungry and I've tried drinking water to shut it up but nothing is working. Does anyone have a suggestions?

Mine does this all the time. Not too much you can do other than get used to it!

you learn to ignore it!

water makes my stomach growl lol maybe thats why you making noise a lot because you drinking water. The noises doesnt mean you are hungry its the tunnel effect of your band digesting the wster

I have found that drinking water makes the growling worse, but something with a little more "substance" will settle it down, e.g. a cup of tea with a bit of skim milk in it.

How about uncontrollable burping??? I had the stomach growling for awhile but it was combined with a burp out of no where! Hahahahah so embarrassing! I havent had either in awhile though

I was on jury duty and it was really quiet in our deliberation room. The only thing anyone could hear was me and my stomache and throat girgeling noises! I had to come clean with my lapband because of all the looks I was getting! I just keep telling myself that nothing can compare to the way I felt about myself before and am now use to it. It's a good thing my husband is too because sometimes when I lay down at night, there's a real party going on in my stomache and he just sleeps right through all the noise!

Welcome to the club! My body makes all kinds of noises now, but I've been "Out of the Closet" with my band since the beginning, so my coworkers don't give it a second thought!

I call it my double barrel belly. I swear the burps are like a shot gun...before I rarely, if ever was able to belch...now My God I impress my kids. The noises that come from my body are incredible. I had to explain to someone that I had no just "fluffied" in the doctors office, it was indeed, my stomach growling and bubbling. I also have found something like tea to help

It's a good thing my husband is too because sometimes when I lay down at night, there's a real party going on in my stomache and he just sleeps right through all the noise!

Hysterical!

I drink tea all day long, always have. Never noticed that it makes any difference.My stomach regularly sounds as though some beast is waking from its winter hibernation in there. Lucky for those of you who tea does help.

Welcome to the lap band. Home of the gurgles and burps.

Sorry to tell you this is part of the new you. You will get used it it. What is a little gurgle when you are losing weight anyway???

My noises have gotten much better with time. The first 18 months were pretty bad, but now things are quiet most of the time.

Mine's terrible too - but I've learned to live with it and having a less tight band this time around has made a huge difference - none of those sink draining noises in the throat. I guess I appreciate it because I've had worse - I've had an ileostomy for the past nine mnonths and so for the time I had it, I would also fart uncontrollably through the stoma. No passing gas through the rear end like normal people - I had no warning, no feeling of it coming, it would just happen, loudly but of course a stoma has no muscles to hold it in. God I hate that, it was SO embarrassing. I had my band unfilled the whole time, so at least I didnt have the stomach symphony as well. But DH is banded too and when we lie down in bed at night its hilarious - we both find lying down makes all the bubbles rise to the top, so to speak. I actually cant fall alseep lying on my back anymore because it makes my guts so active, I have to quieten it by lying on my side.

I burp like nobody's business! And my stomach growls are pretty hilarious. I'm thankful I work in a salon most days and you can't hear much over those dryers!

Yes welcome to the land of bodily sounds. My family is used to it I think LOL. Any way its worth every minute . Good Luck.

3/11/10

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