Well I am almost through 4 -9 hour meetings. The last one is tomorrow. I have purchased the activia yogurt but I had a tooth pulled and am on antibiotics so I dont know how well that will go with probiotics so I have opted to hold out until I am done the prescription.
What seems to work for me is not eating. If I dont eat I dont hear anything or feel discomfort. Literally 10 minutes after eating it starts.
Obviously I cant keep that up for too long so I need more input from everyone regarding diet.
Thanks
doc

Hey everyone..I was looking for a cure for my stomach too . It really is embarresing when the whole class is quiet and that is when my stomach likes to make noise . The noises my stomach makes is not that bad..Just a growl for about like 2-5 seconds. I really wish I know what is wrong and there is a cure for it but from all of the post u ppl have been posting , tough luck for us =/ does anyone basically knows what is wrong?I mean like I eat on time n I never let myself go hungry but the sound is just there >.< so what I do in class is that I always drink up heaps of water . I keep going to the toilet n refilling my bottle but sometimes my stomach still make noises even I fill myself up with water . Im so sick of this and I want to put it to a stop. So if anyone who know what is going on or have a cure or a suggestion please email me. I will try and see what I can find out and I will post it back here.. =/ good luck with ur stomach everyone

Activia has begun to work for me. I think it just keeps me more regular and that in turn helps cut down on the noise.

I thought I was the only person who's stomach makes the noises! Looks like i'm not. My stomach started making noises about one year ago. At first, it would do it occasionally, and it wouldn't be too loud. Then suddenly this year, it's gotten so bad that I didn't want to go to school or church, or someplace quiet because I was afraid my stomach would make a noise. I always tell my friends if I know my stomach will make noises, but I think they think i'm passing wind... :? I don't know what the problem could be, other than I tend to get nervous a lot and when I get nervous, my stomach starts hurting... Which usually contributes to making me have to go...Number two...But I try so hard to make myself relax for anything, but my stomach always makes noises. And I try to eat normally, but even if I go long hours without food, my stomach sounds like it's dying. I can't take it, it's making me not want to go to quiet places - which I used to love - and now I want to go to places with lots of noise. I don't know what the problem is, and i've told my mom, and I don't think she cares, or she just doesn't know what to do. I really hate it, and I wish it would stop! :oops:

I have suffered from a noisy stomach for years. However, I did the atkins diet a few years ago and found that I had very few problems with my stomach.

I have stopped the atkins, eat more fruit, bread etc and have found the noises have reappeared and I seem to have ibs as well.

I think it is the fibre, and that some of us suffer with bloating, noisy stomach and ibs due to this.

:lol: my stomach does this too when in shower my belly moves to one side with heat,i also get awful gas I am coeliac

Hi all,

i couldn't believe it when I found this forum... I have had this problem since I was 16/17 and I am now 21 years of age. It's nice to be able to hear so many people have the same problem.

I noticed in 1hour classes that I couldn't last and used to sneak bits of chocolate every 10mins to keep my stomach quiet. I could never sleep at my friends' houses without getting up and saying "i'm not tired" when in reality I was so tired i'd fall asleep anywhere!

Cinemas were also a nightmare, I had to check out how long a movie would last before deciding whether to wait for it to come out on dvd! And if I did go to see one, i'd stuff my face beforehand.

Work was awful too, I could never stand training sessions and tried to find jobs where I wouldn't need to go to training and I even turned down a managerial position because of my problem. (the managers meetings are 3 hours long!) even 20mins training sessions I couldn't last in. Again, like the above people have mentioned, anxiety plays a huge part. Knowing how I feel in small quiet rooms with few people I start to panic and that brings on the feeling of rumbles and then I make a million excuses to leave the room.

I changed my job so I didn't have to go to training sessions and other reasons to a job which meant sittingin a very quiet room! So far I have kept the noises down eating fruit and early dinners. But what happens when they want to send me away training? :(

i didn't go to uni because I dropped out of college because of this problem. I still cannot go to college because I can't bear the thought of sitting in quiet classrooms and exam halls. My dreams of doing certain subjects have gone down the drain and I have no ambition or confidence.

I can't stay over at my other half's because I wake up within 2 hours and I can feel my stomach is about to explode and rumble out loud like crazy. I make excuses to leave at ridiculous times of the night.

My brother always comments and says, I heard your stomach! That's loud! And I don't mind when i'm around him, just other people. But the rumbles and growls are so loud, they're incredibly embarrassing and I find myself trying to eat more to compensate my stomach.

I have in turn put on a lot of weight in the past year which upsets me because I try to eat less now but with the stomach noises and my job, I have to eat more to keep my stomach full!

I will try the yogurt and I will also try to keep healthy but cutting out bread/dairy and wheat is going to be hard. They form a big part of my diet because they're easy to eat on the go.

If anyone does ever find a 'cure' please let me know! It is destroying my life, I have to keep busy in noisy areas, my stomach stays silent then. In quiet places, it's as loud as the guys outside digging up the road!!!

Thanks for all your posts and sharing your experiences! Apologies for going on for so long but I was so shocked to read all these!!!

Best regards,

scaredlilgirl

I know everyone has said it but I really felt I was the only person in the world with these embarrassing noises. They are not so much in my stomach, that I could cope with, but my bowels, loud gassy noises. They gave me so much anxiety I skipped classes and my grades are dropping. I hate quiet situations and when one suffers anxiety from these noises you start to notice things like what makes it more bearable in a quiet room, such as a fan or car noises outside. I thought I was being irrational and nobody else's stomach seems to make noises ever! I just can't wait for the school year to be over. The noises only seem to come in quiet situations, I think I get stressed when it is quiet and that brings them on. I even walked out of an exam because the dreaded noises started, it was so quiet and I felt like I just had to run away and get out. I love school holidays and weekends cos I dont have to be in those situations and I dread going back, I know it's ruining my education, its nice to know i'm not alone

Now that I think about it for the past year I had a lot of stomach noise even when I was full. Now for the past two weeks I felt as if there was an air bubble trapped behind my left rib cage. Then I noticed that my left rib is sticking out. I do not have any bowel problems no heatburn or constipation. I dont have insurance so I cant really afford to see a Dr. Anyone know why my rib might be sticking out?

Some people have had some luck with the .Activia. What you might do is to start a journal and write down for example your anxiety levels at different times, what you ate, how many grumbles you have had, I am not a dr but I did that for a while and found out a lot of my problem was coffee and not eating anything and then drinking alot of water and then my stress due to to pain , I feel has something to do with it but I cannot do much about it unless I ask my dr for something stronger for pain but I really don't want to walk around feeling like a zombie so I would much rather let my stomach growl some but since I have cut-out my coffee it has really helped quite a bit along with eating something with my meds. Writting everything down really helped to figure a lot of things out for me.
Good luck to everyone, I hope you do find the cure and if you can't I hope that you can go see your dr and he can help you!
Spooooork, don't you have a dr that you can call and talk to and if you do need an x-ray, wont they allow you to make payments?

I havent had the stomach noises for about a month and a half now. My main concern is that my rib is sticking out or swollen. There really is not that much pain as there is discomfort. I feel it more after I get out of the shower. I havent had a dr for years and always just end up going when I absolutely have to. I do have a lot of anxiety issues but I dont know why that would cause my rib to stick out and appear to be bruised from the outside. I can push on it, bend over and everything and there isnt any pain. Just sometimes feel like there is an air bubble. My back is starting to really bug me though, mostly on my left side but also my lower back.

Ok i'm going to start off with the typical, "omg I thought I was the only one" because I really thought I was the only one!
But i'm glad to know that there are other people out there (although I wish none of us had it)


i agree with most people and think you really have to watch your diet. I'm not 100% sure what the cause of mine is but i'm going to find out. I think I can't really have too much caffeine......Coffee's not too good for me.
I also think stress has to do with it.

This summer I didn't go thru any stress and I don't even remember the last time I heard the sound. However, now i'm in a very intense, rigorous demanding master's program and it's like bombs away with my stomach. Today has been a worse day than others.

My stomach doesn't move during this but I definitely feel it in certain places and it's louder and longer and the "texture" of it varies.

I also want to say that you should definitely definitely exercise. I worked out a lot up until two months ago and I don't think I had any problems with my noises until after that.

I'm going to start working out again tomorrow and this time log my daily intake and change my diet as this progresses. I want to get to the bottom of this!!

I am definietely going to try some dannon activia now. I only do breyer's yogurt but will try dannon if it helps.

Thanks everyone for all the advice. I'm so glad I fo und this board (i googled stomach noises and found it). I feel like i'm not alone with this!

Hope everyone's stomachs are doing well!

-growlsaway.

Hi guys,

i havent been here in ages - still going with the noises! I was just lying down there to go to sleep when the noises arrived back which reminded me that every night when I lie down to go to sleep my stomach goes into overdrive! Sooo I thought id login at 2:35am to see if anyone else has noticed this? Im sitting up now and there's not a sound. Good stomach.

Im managing quite well now during the day - I exercise a huge amount especially before a potentially nerve-racking situation (meeting or exam etc.) - and it still works for me so again I urge everyone to work out. A bonus is you get a pretty fit body too :wink: ............If only the other people in the gym knew why I work out so hard!!! :d

its funny - as I get more used to this 'condition' the more flippant I have become. I think its the only way to go. Of course every now and then I get caught out. Just the other day I walked into a bookshop and of course right on que, my good old stomach decided now was the time to say hello - to every customer in the shop! I didnt leave tho and as I stayed the more confident I became. So I left with my stomach behaving itself.

But anyway - just wondering about the lying down thing. I dont think my stomach made a single noise today until I lay down to go to sleep. I have a slightly arched back - I wonder is there so pressure being exerted on certain organs?

Hmmm... Interesting!

Keep going guys! Its funny - do you think this makes us more success driven than others!??! Man im tired!

Ror

ps. Il try that danone! Nothing to do with the noises - I just like yoghurt :wink:

So why does it get worse for me when I exercise lately?

I noticed that if I don't exercise my stomach is more quiet.
If I exercise the night before, the next day at work, my
stomach seems worse than ever. I haven't been able to exercise
and I don't like that.

I get noises after I eat and then have to sit down at work.
It seems to happen to me more at work than anywhere else.
I wonder if it's work-stress related? That's when it all started
for me is when I had to sit down at a desk and work for hours.
I just had an episode a few minutes ago, that is why I am here.

There was a time that it totally stopped for months, then it started again.
I am trying to retrace what it was that I did. If I figure it out, i'll
let you know! It must have been some vitamin or supplement I tried.
I have tried many things, so I am not sure what it was that worked.
I spent a lot of money on expensive crazy stuff trying to get help.

Like many who have also said this, I am very glad to find this forum as I have experienced noisy stomach sounds at the most improper times for many years now. I have done some research online about the topic, and most seem to say that the noise is caused by people swallowing air. So I tried burping more or expelling gas (whenever I can in a discrete manner :) ), and it seems to make the symptoms (i.E. Noises and discomfort) go away for a little while. But sometimes I get so nervous and worried that I can't even burp when I know I really need to. So lately, I tried taking anti-gas medication, but that did nothing for me, and seemed to have made the problem worst today. Then again, it only didn't work in my case, may be it worked for other people.

Hi, I don't know if anyone still posts on this topic but i've just found it. I have the same problem of stomach noises - I first noticed it in may but it disappeared after a couple of weeks. Now though i've had it since about mid-august and it's just been getting worse since then. I'm at uni so I know all too well the horror of facing tutorials in quiet rooms. To make matters worse, most of my classes have only about 10 people in them so I can't pretend it was someone else's stomach making noises.

Recently i've been getting slight shooting pains through my abdomen and everything I eat is unsettling my stomach. I eat a healthy enough diet and have tried switching to soya milk etc but nothing seems to work.

I wasn't feeling well yesterday morning and my stomach was really noisy so I took some pepto bismol (which i've never tried before) but it actually made it worse! I felt terrible for the rest of the day then because of the pepto bismol and ended up missing all my classes.

I'm afraid I can't offer much advice to anyone but i'm glad i'm not the only one. Now if only you were all in my classes then my stomach noises wouldn't stand out!

One small bit of advice that has kind of helped recently for me though is to drink peppermint tea. It stops spasms and everything in your digestive system and calms everything down a bit.

Good luck.

Hey guys!
Im glad I found this forum, its great! My stomach as been making noises since grade 8, thats when I started noticing it. Im in my third year of uni and this issue has gotten worse, especially in lectures and tutorials that are extremely quiet. Im usually okay in the mornings, but by 3 or 4 o'clock after ive eaten the noises are there and loud, and this is the time I have tutorials, which is a nightmare. Most of the time I end up going, but lately its just gotton worse and I end up skipping. Which isnt the best thing to do.
I cant be in a quiet place after eating, thats when it starts and carries on through 2 or 3 hours later. Unless I do something about it...This is what I do to help reduce the noise:

- I wake up early in the morning and have cereal, which flushes everything down and helps a lot!! That way my stomach is empty
- I also tried working out (running) which helps too! Before going somewhere that might be quite. Although there has been times that have disappointed me.
- ive tried that dannon yogurt, but I didnt really take notice of the sounds because I was eating at home. But im going to get more and see if it helps.
I might just build up the courage to go see my doctor and if he recommends anything that might help, ill post it.


We'll get through this! Just be hopeful and calm

I know what you all are going threw im 15 and ever sense this school year started I have had problems with my stomach. I can't concentrate and I already bin to the doctor and they put me on medication they took x rays and said that I have air in my stomach but I still have problems and its been a few months so I am going back today and I will let you all know what happens maybe I will get more info.

Hey everyone I went back to the doctor yesterday and on the doctors exuse she put ibs but they took blood to see if I have any stomach ulcers. My mom asked what can cause the stomach noises and etc. And the doctor said stress and it could just happen on its own. I got more medication and I will see if it helps. And to the people that havent went to the doctor you should somehow it should help hopefully :d

ashley, what medication did the doctor give you? Is it sepcifically for gas?

I myself have just stared having this problem since I began attending postgraduate classes.

I know what's causing the rumbling is gas because it happens during class that I feel like burping but because i'm so nervous, I can't burp, and then the sounds start to come out from the left side of my tummy.

I hate it because my stomach seems to choose class time as the time to act up. And it's really loud, and for a girl taking up classes in a foreign contry, wihtout friends yet, well, it feels like the end of the world.

I've tried taking remegel for three days now. They says that it has an ingredient (simethicone) that binds all your gass bubbles so that you can expel it more easily and therefore elimitate gas problems (which, to me translates to eliminating the rumbling sounds in my stomach because i'm sure they're caused by gas).

It has then been easier for me to expel the gas, true, but there seems to be a lot remaining since my stomach is still making the sounds. In conjunction with remegel i've been drinking peppermint and chamomile tea (both of which are said to be carminatives whcih help with digestion). No luck.


I've been gogling about this condition (see ask alice http://www.Goaskalice.Columbia.Edu/0186.Ht ml)
and she said that activated charcoal helps eliminate gas problems by absorbing the gas into the body. I bought a bragg's medicinal charcoal yesterday fom a local health sotre and have taken two tablets after lunch today because the remegel hasn't worked.

Will post to you the restuls though i'm not expecting much. Take note that a side effect of the charcoal is that you won't be able to absorb other medicine when you're taking it.

Except for giving up milk, I haven't tried changing my diet yet but will definitely try getting yogurt. I see the value in probiotics.

Although I recognize the fact that fibers cause more gas to be produced by the body as opposed to protien/meats and fats, i'm apprehensive about foregoing fruits and vegetables because we need that to be healthy don't we?

Also, i've been taking much coffee for the most part of my life but this problem just started two months ago so i'm unsure how stopping with coffee will help me.

Somehow, from the different things that have helped some people in this site, it appers that the solution for each individual dpends on his/her own system. And I take it that not one remedy has absolutely eliminated the problem for each of us but has only helped reduce it.

Hope this helps, and if anyone out there has other methods for solving this problem, please share it! Thanks.