You are hungry because soft food and liquids don't sit in your pouch for very long. Solid foods will stay with you longer and you won't be so hungry. If I am not getting enough protein, I get that dizzy-weak all over feeling, so protein shakes help. Now that I can eat solid food, it is a little easier to get more protein in.

My surgeon explained it to me this way....the acid producing cells are mostly lower down in our bypassed stomachs. Occaisionally some people have a few acid producing cells still left in our pouches because they were higher up in our stomachs before surgery. Some doctors routinely put their patients on Prevacid to protect the pouch from ulcers....not all doctors do this, though. The burp/hiccup/stomach noise thing....yep I have it too. I think I burp so much because I am swallowing air, and there just isn't any room for it any more. So it comes back out. I do have one friend who is 4 or 5 months out who says the stomach noise thing finally went away.....don't know if it goes away eventually for everybody, though.

That's funny - mine does to. It starts the minute I start eating something and doesn't stop for quite sometime. It cracks me up! I wonder if it will always do that. , Robin

Welcome Home. I had surgery on March 19th. I don't take medicine for it because I don't have those problems. HOWEVER, my stomach makes such loud obvious noises that the dog even ****s her ears! I'm thinking of taking up the harmonica to drown out the noise and make it less conspicuous. Take Care Diane

My co-worker's brother had the surgery done a few years ago, and when visiting me a week or so ago, I started burping, she told me to get used to that, it doesn't go away!! I have only had one bought of hiccups so far, but seem to burp for about 15-20 minutes after I eat anything. I had my surgery on 3/12....I guess my answer for you is just get used to saying 'excuse me'!!!