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I am only about a week out from surgery. I have a question for folks further along. How long do the stomach gurgles continue while you are eating or drinking? Every time I take a sip, my stomach gurgles as it settles and I usually need to burp after a few sips. Is that something that continues for the rest of your life or is it something that will go away after a while? If it does go away, do you remember how long it took?

It doesn't bother me when I am home alone (in fact, I appreciate the gurgles because they let me know I am good to take another sip); but, I don't see myself drinking in front of people anytime soon unless they are really good friends. ;)

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Three and half years out and I still have them. You (and your spouse) gets used to it.

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The gurgling and burping from drinking settled down for me a few weeks out. I still get some rumbling from eating, depending on what I eat. I'm 5 months post-op now.

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I'm almost 10 months out and my stomach makes random gurgling noises through out the day. Sometimes its when I'm eating or drinking something. Other times - it just seems to yell out. lol. My husband giggles. I get a little self conscious when we're out or I'm at work, but it is what it is. :)

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Mine settled down about a month post op. I burped a lot too and that has gone away too.

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I am almost 6 mths out and I am just now noticing that it doesn't gurgle every time I eat. But if I drink a lot on an empty stomach it will make some noise for a while.

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My gurgles and bubbles lasted at least 6 months before tapering off. At 1 year, they were almost gone. Now, at 2 years, I have to eat something really tough - like dry chicken breast - to get a gurgle out of Frankensleeve. B)

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Mine slowed down tremendously, it happens rarely. Mostly when drinking coffee. The gurgles have been replaced w/burps,

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Forever apparently!.....geez!

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7 months out and Milagro the Mexican Wonder Tummy still loves to make himself known, especially with certain foods.

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Gas x strip s helped me. Not many just like one before church or before my follow up appointment. Three weeks out today and all I have is the gurgles after eatin or drinking when its going down. No more belly noises.

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I had these weird gurgles before getting sleeved, so I wonder what will happen after. I am glad to hear I am not the only one who has to burp after almost every sip. I hope that goes away soon!

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I'm 8 weeks out and my stomach still rumbles with every bite or sip. I also feel like I have to burp all the time. It's super lady like!

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Ditto- 10 months out and my stomach still has conversations with us at the dinner table :)

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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