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Embarrassing Stomach Noises During University Exam



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Ugh. It's so humiliating when my stomach gurgles its silly post-op burps that sound more like "fireworks" than a genuine burp. Particularly when the entire room I'm in is silent. This happened during an exam a few weeks ago and my friend three rows over told me after, "I wanted to throw you a muffin, you sounded so hungry!" I laughed and said, "I was anything but!" (I'd scarfed down a few peanut m&m's the professor had passed out. Major mistake.) The second time was last night during Scattergories, as everyone was silent, trying to come up with words that started with the letter "R". My crush started laughing. (Thank goodness he knows about the surgery.)

Have you guys had any embarrassing stories about stomach noises or other such things post-op?

Do you have any suggestions for suppressing the ridiculous noises?

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I was walking though a parking lot and one of those awful belches happened to sneak out. I glanced around and didn't see anybody and had a fleeting thought "oh, good, nobody heard that"....and then I heard a man laugh. Didn't look around to see where he was or anything. Just got tomy car and got in before I died laughing about getting "caught"!

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I had a friend sleeping over and I get lots of gurglie noises when I lay down. She doesn't know about the surgery so she heard my stomach making noise and was concerned I was sick or something. I just kind of laughed it off and said my stomach always made weird noises. It was definitely embarrassing though...

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When I lay down, my stomach goes crazy! DH is banded too and we listen to the "opera" every night before we got to sleep, lol.

My stomach was doing that gurgling at a funeral recently, that was embarrassing. They sound really like burps!

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I, too, had some astounding burps post-op, as well as a gurgly tummy. A couple of weeks ago, during a midterm, my stomach was growling louder than the pits of hell...the girl next to me kept looking at me like what is wrong with you? Since then, I make sure to eat SOMETHING before class :bored:

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Are these noises made all the time or just after you eat? I am in school too but haven't had surgery yet. I am concerned about fitting into the desk each semester. Hopefully this will be the last semester I face that delimma.

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I have been mostly confined to my house post-op trying to recover and make sure that once school starts again I am healed up and ready for it. I have had problems with gas and burps, but the funniest one was when I was coming up the stairs in my house, each stair was met with a burp! I felt as thought I was in the Bog of Eternal Stench from Labyrinth but the gas was coming from the other end. lol

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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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