Question:
5 DAYS POST OP- HAVING PROBLEMS

WITH TERRIBLE BUBBLING, GURGLING IN BELLY BEFORE/AFTER/DURING DRINKS FLUIDS AND EATING MY JELL0. WHAT IS THIS?    — tia S. (posted on August 25, 2003)

August 25, 2003
You are so new in the post-op phase. NEVER hesitate to call your doctor with any question you may have. Better to be safe then sorry.
   — Starrlina

August 25, 2003
I had the same thing after eating and drinking. It was just my new pouch getting used to food and drink again! It lasted about two weeks, but was not painful. Just a little unsettling. If yours is causing you pain, though, you need to call your doctor.
   — raye

August 25, 2003
I believe that this is a good thing. My Surgeon and Residents asked me while in the hospital if I was hearing this and I'd wake to find them listening as well. I believe that they'd be concerned if there weren't things going on down there. At one week, I heard these sounds quite a bit as did my son when he'd sit w/ me. He thought was quite funny. I don't have all of that going on so much anymore at almost 3wks out.
   — [Deactivated Member]

August 25, 2003
I still get this at five months out, especially when I drink a volume of liquid at a sitting. It seems perfectly normal and harmless, but if you're concerend, or have any pain with it, call your doc.
   — Vespa R.

August 25, 2003
Your stomach is non-funtional for weeks after surgery and that is why you are on a liquid diet that progresses so slowly to solid foods. In the beginning your stomach drains much the way a full bathtub would, just based in gravity and the opening into youe intestines is very small so it gurgles and bubbles on the way out. It is very normal and I do still get that if I am really chugging my liquids sometimes. If you are scared or worried call your surgeon for some reassurance.
   — Carol S.

August 25, 2003
I don't mean to be gross, but could this mean your "bowels are working". I always thought that is what this meant. I always took it as a good sign after ANY surgery.
   — Danmark

August 25, 2003
i'm 5 days post-op too and have these sounds. they don't hurt at all. it just sounds like something very interesting is about to happen.....and then nothing lol.
   — franbvan

August 26, 2003
Hi Tia, I had the same experience (read my profile) for a while. I would make terrible dinosaur noises whenever I ate or drank. If it got really bad I'd take a Gas X and it helped. Hang in there! :)
   — Judy M.