Hello Everyone -

I am two days away from being six weeks post up,(vertical sleeve) and things have gone really well so far! The weight is coming off at a normal pace and the incorporation of exercise feels great! Total life style change which takes some getting used too for sure. Especially breaking some of our old eating habits!

I am having one issue however that I'm having trouble getting clarity on and I'm looking for some community feedback!

My stomach is constantly busy! What I mean buy this is that it's always grumbling, growling and moaning... especially when I'm eating or drinking it's at it's worst! Also, my stomach has a mild to moderate sour feeling,(almost like a mild upset stomach) fairly regularly! In fact, the only time my stomach truly feels completely normal is when I wake up in the morning after sleeping for 6 -8 hours! However, once I begin to eat my morning Breakfast the growling and mild discomfort creeps back into play and kind of stays with me most of the day!

It's seems as if the more and/or faster I eat the worst the growling and grumbling becomes! This has obviously lead me to believe that I'm eating too much too fast and I've been really concentrating on taking smaller bites, chewing better and most importantly waiting two to three minutes between bites!

All this definitely has helped some but the mild sour, nausea feeling is still slightly present more than I'd like it to be!

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this somewhat normal the first several weeks post up? any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

It is very normal! My husband and I are both sleeved my tummy is very active and noisy during the day, usually not terrible audible and my husband's is busier at evening/night. I am 7 months out and he is 6.

Are you in anti acids still?

Makes sense, around 5-6 weeks I started taking Prilosec and a good probiotic (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005P0NYFI/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I was not enjoying eating at all. After I started taking these eating became much MUCH more enjoyable and that "sour" feeling went away after everything I ate.

I still take omniprezoal (ppi) 20mg once a day first thing in the morning. I have bouts of heartburn still and my surgeon said I could be on this for up to 1 year. I have found no differences between name or off brand.

Thank god I'm not the only one. I am almost 3 weeks out from VGS. My stomach talks to me ALL the time; it's quite annoying. It's gurgles, bubbles, etc.

My surgeon informed me that our stomachs/sleeves don't make noises it's actually our intestines even if it does sound like its coming from the stomach area -- he says it's normal.

Phew! Thank you for explaining it further for me.

It gets better and eventually goes away. We used to joke around my house about it. It'd get so loud my kids would do the "there was an old lady who swallowed a (fill in the blank)."

I've heard A LOT of people say they experience this, even years after surgery, and it's completely normal. I experienced it for maybe the first few days but now nothing.

11 weeks out and my stomach is hilariously and embarrassingly LOUD a lot of the time. All you can do is laugh about it.