Question:
How do you know if it is your new stomach or old stomach thats growling?
— K T. (posted on September 5, 2001)
September 5, 2001
IF IT'S YOUR OLD STOMACH THAT'S GROWLING, YOUR DENTURES WILL FALL OUT.
— Kristin R.
September 6, 2001
HUH? I don't "get" the previous answer.
— [Anonymous]
September 6, 2001
Hahaha! That is so funny! I can't believe the 2nd poster didn't get it.
Hahaha
— [Anonymous]
September 6, 2001
okay...very cute...but seriously now...Can you feel where the growling is
coming from? My growling doesn't occur in my (old) stomach or (new) pouch,
at all, but seems to come from my upper intestine. In fact, I often find
myself calling that area my "tummy". It gets tummy aches and
feels funny like my old stomach used to. Funny, huh? sort of my surrogate
stomach.
— Anne G.
September 6, 2001
I am going through the same thing. I actually started having "hunger
pains" three days post op but I don't know where they are coming
from?? I also have found that you mind also has a part in it. I know that
if my brain thinks it is hungry my tummy will actually growl and I mean
right after I eat something. Strange I know. Dana
— [Anonymous]
September 6, 2001
Ha! Ha! Ha! that is so funny especially for someone who hasn't had the
operation yet. Just you wait - you'll know what she is talking about when
your time comes.
— [Anonymous]
September 7, 2001
I've researched all of the bariatric surgeries and have not seen this
persons question addressed. I think the answers posted here were all
insensitive and rude. If you are just learning about all of this, then the
questions can not be taken so lightly. After all isn't that what this sight
is for???
— [Anonymous]
September 11, 2001
who is this annonymous person? Is it the same person or what. One of them
is obnoxious.
— Jennifer H.
September 14, 2001
I'm very new at all of this, but at the seminar I attended, the doctor
explained the resaon they do not remove the part of the stomache that is
separated is because the acid and bile is still used for some part of the
digestion process. So as funny as some you thought this question was, I
think it probrably is the old stomache doing the growling, because it still
does function, just not the way it use to.
— MaryAnn51
September 14, 2001
I am 9 months post-op and I have experienced the same thing. Initially I
wondered whether it was the old or new stomach, but then I realized that
the new stomach doesn't really have the acid which "gurgles," so
to speak. That means it really can't rumble or "growl." Although
I tend to agree with a previous poster that it may be more in your
intestines where you are feeling and hearing the growling. I can really
hear my "tummy" growling very loudly, and decided to listen with
a stethoscope. Turns out it is from the intestinal area. Hope this helps.
And to some of the previous posters, get a life!
— Maria H.
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