Does your stomach growl?
i find that mines a lot of acid in my new tummy that i have never had before surgery or never noticed. i do find that tums helps. i had to use them this morning. just chewed 2 of them and it feels better and is quieter.
My stomach is much noisier now than it ever was before surgery. Sometimes it is obnoxiously loud!
My stomach growls more now that I had my VSG, so I don't know what they're talking about. It growls before I eat, and after I eat. It growls when I take my vitamins, and when I drink too much water. Since my stomach is smaller than before I think it reacts more aggressively to food, and everything else now.
5' 5" tall. VSG on August 4, 2015/ Starting weight 239.9/ Surgery weight 210.9/ Current weight 137.4/ Goal weight 140/ No longer overweight, now a NORMAL weight. Now that I'm at goal, it's time to move on to maintenance!!!!!!!!
My stomach also gurgles since my VSG, and I agree that it is my new normal. Although the difference it that it gurgles after I eat...I think that it is telling me that it is very content. Before my VSG, it growled before I had eaten to tell me I was hungry. I am almost 10 months out. I love my sleeve and love it when it tells me it is content! :-) Kay
5'7" HW 256 (1/6/2014) SW 236.2 (VSG: 1/26/2015) CW 165.5 (01/10/2016) Total Weight Lost 90.5
Pre-Op: -19.8; Month 1: -19; Month 2: -12.7; Month 3: -9.9; Month 4: -7.2; Month 5: -6.4; Month 6: -2.8; Month 7: -3.7; Month 8: -4.2; Month 9: -0.6; Month 10: -2.1; Month 11: -0 Month 12: -2.1
GOALS: BMI Normal = 159 (6.5 to go); 100 LBs Lost = 156 (9.5 to go); FINAL GOAL: 139?? (26.5 to go)
I don't know who told you that myth but it's absolutely not true! In fact, most people on here have lots of stories of their stomachs making all kinds of intersting noises. Even now, if I drink too soon after a meal my tummy will make VERY loud, embarrasing noises for at least 30 minutes.
The growling could also me to excess stomach acid. As for when it will stop, I'm 2-1/2 years out and it still happens occasionally, especially if I eat the wrong thing, too much or liquids too soon after eating.