i have a 9.75 cm band with 2.1 fill. Have been filled slowly per doc.

After last fill i have noticed a lot of burping and gurgling when i drink liquids..either hot or cold.

i wondered if i was too tightly filled but i still eat more than i am supposed to when hungry.....in other words not getting full if i was restricted right.

Any answers...suggestions, please?

i am due for a fill on Monday and am concerned about it.

Thanks,

cal

Increased burping/gas is expected with the band. Gurgling could be a sign of being overfilled or it could be normal. Since you're seeing the surgeon on Monday, make sure you discuss this with him/her. If there is no heartburn or regurgitation of food, it's not considered a problem.

For me this is a sign of good restriction, and something that makes me slow down. I used to gurgle/burp non-stop when I was first banded. I will also gurgle and burp when I'm nearing a PB, but when you're there, you know it. So if things are fine and you just happen to be burply and gurgly, I wouldn't think it's anything to be concerned about. If you begin to have pain or the liquids begin coming back up, seek your surgeon's input, that's a reliable sign of being too tight.

Can anyone tell me the chances of a slip with a band that is sutured in place as opposed to those that are not? My Dr. sewed my band in place

with 5 sutures. He told me that scar tissue would form around the sutures

and help prevent slippage. I keep reading about people that have had their bands slip after one vomiting episode. Although I have not been sick, I am scared to death of complications.

I was a self pay and want to do everything I can to lower the risk! Thanks!

For me this is a sign of good restriction, and something that makes me slow down. I used to gurgle/burp non-stop when I was first banded. I will also gurgle and burp when I'm nearing a PB, but when you're there, you know it. So if things are fine and you just happen to be burply and gurgly, I wouldn't think it's anything to be concerned about. If you begin to have pain or the liquids begin coming back up, seek your surgeon's input, that's a reliable sign of being too tight.

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This burping and gurgling is sometimes hurtful---like i have something caught from not chewing good enough---and is uncomfortible.

But.......if it's from being too tight, how come i don't have much restriction when i eat?

For example......last night i had 3 oz. ground veal, toms, onions and taco sauce in a "taco salad". It was a big bowl and i wasn't really full when i finished.

Thanks for your imput.

cal

Cal, that is your restriction speaking to you. If you are still able to consume a lot of food you aren't tight enough. You just have to live with the gurgling. Julie

Cal, is your gut hungry or are you fighting "head hunger"

I seem to make all thoes noises, I find that drinkink with a straw makes things go down easier.....Happi

Cal, is your gut hungry or are you fighting "head hunger"

i eat only when i'm hungry....not just head hunger.

thanks for all your replies.

cal

My doctor said to avoid using straws.. it adds a lot of air to your drinking and gets a lot of air in your stomach.

i have a 9.75 cm band with 2.1 fill. Have been filled slowly per doc.

After last fill i have noticed a lot of burping and gurgling when i drink liquids..either hot or cold.

i wondered if i was too tightly filled but i still eat more than i am supposed to when hungry.....in other words not getting full if i was restricted right.

Any answers...suggestions, please?

i am due for a fill on Monday and am concerned about it.

Thanks,

cal

Cal, Do you notice you do more burping and gurgling in the a.m.? I have to be tight in the a.m. to have restriction in the evening.

So I just deal with the morning tightness.

Just wondered if you do that morning and evening or more in the mornings like me?

wait wait wait!!!! i gurgle!!i gurgle!!!!!

ive asked a lot of people about gurgling and no one seems to know what im talking about and everyone looks at me funny. FOR ME it sounds JUST LIKE sludge going down a pvc pipe.

After a few test runs i think ive figured out what it is...

for me, i think its Soup. I LOVE cambells tomato and rice soup UNDELUTED. its thick and i dig it... anyway after i eat it, about twenty minutes later i gurgle. To me the sensation is pleasant, even....relieving...

your not a loon. I gurgle!!!

I've been gurgling since I was banded Monday. On everything (well, I'm on all clear liquid diet), but I hate that I can't guzzle water right now. I told my family on our ride home from the doctor, how everything goes 'squish squish squish' when I drink. I felt/heard it. I don't hear the squishing anymore, but when I drink it almost always feels like a knot, and I feel it 'squeezing' through and I burp.. I don't burp anything up, but it's a burp.. I feel like I'm getting a lot of air or something. I don't like it.. but I'm not drinking in a straw, and trying hard not to 'gulp air'. I guess this is something I'll have to get use to??