:biggrin:Hello all. I have a question. I got my band this past Friday May29th 2009. My first fill will be on June 29th 2009. I was curious to know, if and when I sneeze, cough, burp or hiccup. Will that hurt my band? I also feel my stomach rumbling and twitching, like a muscle spasms, sometimes is that normal? Please help a brother out. Thank you.

good luck to all my other lapband family.

Dallas Lucas:confused:

I don't know but,I was banded June 1 and woke up coughing.Hurt! Did a nasal flush and am sucking on a cough drop.It reaqlly hurts to cough and I don't want to undo anything.

These things will not hurt your band. Let me tell your hiccups and burps will be a BIG part of your life now. I hiccup every day at least once a day, and thses hiccups are LOUD and obnoxious. lol

I don't have any issues with hiccups. I have turned into one big burp bag. I can count on getting big burps around 2 o'clock every day.

Dallas, I was just banded on 6/1, and i've been having the same symptoms when i sneeze. i was wondering if that happened to any one else?

I have been banded for over a year and I have the hiccups pretty frequently, the tighter the band, I think the worse they get. It wasn't until I hit 6ccs that I started getting them. Burping is a problem too. I find if you follow the rules, both are not nearly as bad...

After every meal when I hiccup I know that is when I am full. I stop eating at that point. I believe this has helped me because I have NEVER PB'd, gotten sick, etc. I take this as a sign of my body telling me to stop eating. Of course, sometimes my head is saying to keep eating, but I listen to the hiccup and stop so I won't have issues. I don't burp so much, but I have always been a gassy person and that has not changed much with the band.

Oh I am sooo glad to hear that. I, too, am the noise maker in this household..I was thequiet one! As any liquid goes down, you/I can hear it..but the hiccups were alarming.

Sneezing, Coughing, Hiccups, Burping will not damage your band or your stomach, although they may hurt this soon after your surgery. LOL, I know mine did.

Hiccups and a runny nose is also a sign for me when I’m full. You have to remember the pouch the surgeon made is in the upper part of your stomach, below you diaphragm. Spasm of the diaphragm is a hiccup. So once you eat enough food to fill your pouch, your full pouch hits your diaphragm and tada… hiccups.