My stomach is angry!

[Lisa22465 23]

I am 4 days post op and I think my stomach is angry at me. It is doing flip flops, contracting and making terrible growling sounds. Is this normal? How long will it last? I am not in any pain and I am tolerating my liquids fine but my tummy is not happy it seems.

[Wiseguy 4]

Hi, I'm 5 days post-op and mine does the same thing and talks to me and my wife all night. I think its just telling us thanks for caring enough about our health to have this done.

[laneyBEE31 9]

6 days post op. Having the same problem. I thinks its the gas still trying to make its way out! :/

[Dark Ranger 12]

I'm a month out and my stomach still makes a lot of noise. Mostly when I'm laying down though.

[Richard Foor 655]

This is perfectly normal it does lessen as time goes(length of time varies for everyone). I believe it has to do with the stomach acids not having any solid food to break down, It also seems to be lessened by use of Prilosec. Good Luck

[cygnusatratus 73]

I had this very bad. It cleared up when I did two things: get completely off the pain meds, and add some probiotic powder to my liquid meals. It's actually your intestines making all that noise and movement.

[Huntingnurse 510]

Just slap it and say "SHUSH!" real loud. That's what I'd do.

[Sleevedintx 39]

I was sleeved on the 17th and mine is quite noisy as well. I'm off the pain meds. It doesn't always do it. But when it does its loud, louder than I ever remember. But this too will pass.

[Sleevedintx 39]

Just slap it and say "SHUSH!" real loud. That's what I'd do.

Is that like when you kick the computer to make it work?

[candice1218 22]

My worst days were by far my 4th and 5th days. They also happened to be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ughh!! It does get so much better good luck!

[MinaT 669]

For the first few weeks your tummy can and will make noises, it will flip and it will flop, it will growl and you may even think that you are hungry or some people have said they are "starving to death".

The "hunger pains" or growling is several different things. One of the things is acid. Making sure you take a prevacid or something like that is very important. The second thing it could be is healing pains. Your stomach is cut from one end to the other, there are staples in there. If you cut your finger, it throbs right? Imagine your entire length of stomach was cut. It throbs too. It has to heal, a lot of it is healing pains. The flips and groans go away, I promise. I also promise you aren't starving to death and 99% of the time the growls are not hunger pains.

Every day and every week is better than the week before and eventually you will feel normal. Best of luck.