Hi All, I had my J-Pouch surgery 13 1/2 years ago, take down 2 months after that. I have frequent gut gurgles and groans through out the day and night. They can get loud to where people across the room can hear them.
Anyone else have gurgling ?
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I have gurgling quite often recently. Usually worse if I've skipped breakfast or drinking too much liquids without enough food.
I sometimes get the loud gurgling gut too. Always embarrassing when others hear, but I can’t it either
Me too, usually at night, thankfully no one can hear but me and my cat. lol Not sure why. Maybe it's what I eat. Sometimes I just can't figure it all out. It seems no matter what it still comes.
I know colon people with louder noises. It happens to every one.
Hi JOMBEE,
I'm really glad that you brought this topic up. J pouch summer 2006, take down summer 2007. So it's almost 11 years for me with hook up. For the past two years, I've had terrible gut noises, technically called borborygmi. My GI and nurses in the office have heard them on multiple visits because I usually visit them, in the afternoon. It has nothing to do with pouchitis because I have been scoped and biopsied and only minor inflammation. Pelvic MRI with contrast shows nothing abnormal. My excellent doctor has reached the limit of his tool kit. There is almost no research on this, just 1 paper on "intractable borborygmi". The only thing left would be exploratory surgery to look for adhesions that are narrowing the tract. There are a few experts in the US who could do this but recovery time is a complete unknown.
Because it is so distracting for work, especially in quiet rooms, I take 3 immodium each morning, gas-x does nothing. I take a sip of coffee then nothing but small sips of water and gatorade throughout the day. Immediately after work at 4 p.m. or 5 before I go home I eat a full meal at Boston Market. I live less than 30 minutes from work so I can make it back before needing to go to the bathroom. Or I have a big protein and starch meal if my wife can make it right after work. Weekends I stock up on proteins and vegetables and full meals.
It is a problem for the next day if I eat too late. I have no choice but to keep this up, oh and I have had to miss out on many events at night or excuse myself from meetings because of my after dinner gurgling. I have had to fast all day practically to make mandatory events at night. this might happen once every 2 weeks.
Like everyone else here if we want to keep living, we have no choice. My wife and I would like to downsize and move someplace smaller so I can retire. This dream keeps me going.
Good luck, hopefully you are not as bad as me.
To clarify, I would be so nutrient deprived otherwise but I take vitamin D, intranasal B12, and have iron infusions for anemia.
My belly used to gurgle loudly, though it doesn’t usually do it any more. It never occurred to me to make significant life changes over it. Heck, it never occurred to me to make any changes at all.
Guess your coworkers never asked you during a meeting if you were going to explode or "what did you swallow a tiger"?
Nope. I did have a very loud bowel noise during a job interview once, and once the interviewer recovered he pretended not to have heard it. If someone asked me either of those questions I might just answer “yes.”
