Belching

Hi Everybody,

Anyone have issues after RNY with belching? I am 20 weeks out and I belch after putting anything in my pouch. I've never been able to belch aloud, they stay in my throat, but it is so noisy that you can hear it across the room and on phone calls. Even my kids have mentioned it, and it is incredibly irritating for me.

I did bring it up to my surgeon but he didn't really give me an answer. I am struggling with food tolerance and he really focused the discussion on that. He said that if I didn't start tolerating food better at six months they could check the size of the opening at the bottom of my pouch and make sure that it is large enough. I really, really am behind on what I should have lost so far because I was not eating. I did not eat for 8 weeks and lost 0 pounds as a result.

So now I am eating ... and belching nonstop. Any ideas or tips?

This isn't an issue I've heard come up before. If it were me, I'd have them do the scope and see if everything was ok.

I am confused though, about how you couldn't eat anything for 8 weeks, and didn't lose. I would have thought you'd lose more. How did your surgeon explain that?

He gave me the ol' metabolism shut down line. He said that my body had shut down to conserve itself. I am now deficient in D and a few of the B vitamins and my hair is falling out. I also had hypersomnia.

Believe it or not, when I did start eating (his guideline is 80 grams of protein, less than 40 carbs) I started losing again. I lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks doing it his way.

I thought people in Hollywood just never eat, so I thought WooHoo! no hunger / no eating = skinny me ... No.

I'm sorry, but is is physiologically impossible to go eight weeks without eating and not lose weight. The body doesn't work that way.

If it did, there would be no such thing as anorexia nervous.

belching - can be a sign of GB issues, or liver, or hernia, or constipation, or H-pylori infection, or parasites, or swallowing air while you eat- drink (i.e. soda), or .. the list can go on and on...

8 week not eating? do you consider drinks food or just liquids? did you drink enough calories? because otherwise - it is close to impossible not to lose weight if someone does not consume calories for so many weeks.

I am long term post op. At goal. if I don't eat for 2 days or a week I lose weight. Even now. When i have a very little to lose, if any.

you probably drank some high calories protein shakes not realizing that this stopped your weight loss. I can drink a lot of calories. I can eat much less calories as solid food vs drinking.

When I eat or drink too quickly or too much, I belch and belch a lot. But when I slow down, I don't. I am almost 9 years out.

I am also confused by your comment that you did not eat for 8 weeks. Do you mean you did not eat solid foods for 8 weeks? I just don't know how anyone can function without any nutrition for 8 weeks. I get light-headed simply from not eating over night and have to eat something as soon as I wake up.

Are you on a PPI like prevacid? I suddenly started burping about 16 months post-op. I took prevacid for about two months and it stopped. Hasn't happened since. As mentioned there are many things that can cause belching, so you may have to try different solutions :)

About 8 weeks after surgery is when I stopped putting anything in there other than water. Everything tasted disgusting and I had a very low tolerance of most things. Since I didn't feel hungry and did not like dealing with food intolerance I just stopped eating.

All I know is what he told me. I do not claim to be a surgeon by any means.

Obviously, we all know by looking at individuals *****strict their eating or do not have access to enough food that you do lose weight. Yes, I was weak, additionally I noted that I had hypersomnia which means excessive sleepiness. My hair is falling out, my skin and scalp are dry. I now have vitamin deficiencies. It's not like there were 0 physical consequences, I never said that. Just that the weight on his scale from the 8 weeks to the 16 weeks was the same.

It's funny to me, I was chastised for losing too much weight the first 8 weeks, then chastised for not losing enough the following 8.

I'll bring the belching up again at my six months check in if it persists or I develop any other symptoms related to gall bladder or GERD.

Thanks everyone :)

Literally impossible , sigh