Hi everyone! I've posted a couple times over the past few weeks, but have been reading posts on this site since july when I first began thinking about pursuing this surgery. I just want to thank you all for sharing your experiences here. I already feel I've learned a great deal from all the helpful posts here.

With that being said, I finally have a couple of questions of my own to ask.

1). Does your pouch or your remainder stomach growl anymore after the surgery? The reason I ask is that I have a stomach legendary for it's growls. I teach English at anuniversity near Cleveland and students are amazed at how they can hear my stomach sometimes all the way in the back of the room. What a wonderful NSV that would be if that could go away lol.

2). I'm sure others have asked this before, but how much actual hunger have any of you experienced in the days/weeks/months following surgery? I've heard so many different answers to this, and I'd be interested in hearing yours as well.

Thanks again! ?

My stomach never growled pre-surgery, and now my husband calls it "my baby dragon".

I am 2.5 weeks out and didn't get hungry for a week, then started getting hungry. The difference now is a fill up quick. My husband can't believe how little I eat.

I’m the opposite, my stomach has not growled since RNY but use to post op when I was hungry. I seem to have different hunger signals now. I just get kind of an empty feeling or feel a bit nauseated when I need to eat. I’m 3 months out.

Re: stomach growl. I work from home a few days a week, one day I was sitting at the computer working through some super boring tasks and was wonder why the dogs were fighting. Turns out, it was actually my stomach. It will make some hot mess noises after surgery. LOL. as far as hunger goes, the true feelings of hunger where your stomach hurts didn’t return until this week. I’m 6 months out. But just a little snack calms it down. I don’t feel the need to eat anything and everything that isn’t nailed down. LOL

My stomach growls and I get hungry. I have been hungry since the second week of surgery. I was hoping I wouldn't be but I am.

My stomach gurgles and growls in a silmilar way as it did preoperatively.

I get hungry but it is not the gnawing type of hunger I used to experience where I felt I needed to eat and eat. I am satisfied with so much less food, and it takes me longer to feel really hungry.