Since getting banded, I burp a WHOLE lot. Before banding I pretty much never did. Now pretty much after ever meal I burp. Real big ones. Very unlike me. It feels like they are coming from deep within my stomach. It's like after the last of the food makes it through the band that a massive amount of air escapes or something.

I have had zero complications with the band other than that... I'm not terribly restricted though since I'm losing weight still like this. I will be very happy to keep this as my only complication though... =) It's just... interesting.

Can someone please move this post to pre-op, post-op questions? I posted this in the wrong place somehow...

You look great!!! Congrats

OMG - I am a burping machine! It totally moves the food along and helps. It is also a sign to stop!

Have you every been sitting in a quiet room and you start doing inner burps? :eek:

I was just banded Dec. 22 - Tuesday. OMG I have got a burp STUCK... feel like my chest is going to explode! I keep walking around and trying to work it out. Any suggestions??

All I can think of is maybe it's something else...really a burp is just air and shouldn't be able to get stuck...maybe it's reflux or something? I hope you figure it out and it gets better real soon though!

Well, I didn't mean stuck like... stuck in the band stuck... lol. I just couldn't burp and was having terrible gas pains in my chest and back. Hours later I was finally able to... Hope that doesn't happen too often. :smile:

It's probably from the surgery. lol. Did you get Gas-X Strips? Those really helped me after surgery...It gets better as you heal. Just give it time :smile:

Yes, I have to agree that I burp like crazy, all day long. Regardless if I have just eaten my meal or when I drink my Water. Before banding I would only burp if I was drinking a carbonated drink, now it doesn't matter.

I mentioned this to my doctor and he said its caused by swalling air while you are drinking/eating. I was banded on 11/18/09 and just received my first fill on Wed., 1/6/10

All I can hope for is that I learn to eat slower and take smaller sips. I've been told that it will help.

I burp like a fiend! I hardly ever used to burp - except for a beer or seltzer water. I burp now after a sip of cold, flat water. I burp while eating...I burp after anytime I put something in my mouth. I also have come close with acid reflux and definitely experience much more 'stomach activity' - juices flowing? I guess. It's ok. :-)

I burp like crazy... especially when I am tight and I have not eaten. I am one of those who has not told anyone about the surgery except for my husband and parents. So I have to get the burping symphony overwith before I get to work or around others!

No! I don't burp at all any more, it seems. I get a soft-stop hiccup, but that's the extent of it.

Now, if you want to discuss intestinal gas....

I am SO happy that I dont burp anymore bc I used to burp a LOT and it really got on my husbands nerves!!! SO i am glad that part is gone.....

I just got banded on Tuesday the 26th, and since then I have been burping like crazy! Not like me at all! Sometimes they come when I am not expecting them, and they are super loud, its kind of embarrassing!!! I guess I will have to get used to it, and try harder to control it!!! ha ha!

So I didn't read all 12 pages. I've been banded since last year and have had alot of problems. I vomit alot and now I burp alot and they stink! Anyone else have this problem?

i burp all the time, and if i don't take a walk after eating, i get gases. so then i burp and f..t