Belly Rumbling

atlantis187

I've got quite an embarrasing issue. No matter even if I have a decent breakfast or not my stomach starts rumbling around 10.30am to 12pm not because i'm hungary just probably takes me ages to digest the breakfast. And its not faint rumbles its like an animal roarring or summat, on occassions fellow staff have made funny comments as in down boy.
Its really embarrasing because in our office its dead quite and u can hear a pin drop and when we have meeting its even worse.

This is really getting me down.

quintwins

My tummys been doing this since i had kids i have no advice sorry, just wanted you to know your not alone my hubby comments on it all the time.

coolcait

I have the same problem, so I sympathise.

Over the years, I have found that it's more embarrassing to try to ignore it (especially those long, loud, complicated tummy rumbles which sound as if you have passed wind quite spectacularly! ).

Now, I acknowledge it publicly. How I do that depends on the company. So, if I'm in a meeting with people I don't know, or with colleagues, I'll simply say "Please excuse my stomach!" and grimace apologetically.

If I'm in the office, I usually go with the same approach, depending on the circumstances. For example, if someone has brought in cakes, then I'll say something like "Excuse my stomach - I think it's time for one of those delicious-looking cakes that x brought in (thanks, x!)"

Occasionally, it can work with you. One time our boss had just explained a new, more complicated and less efficient procedure which the big bosses wanted to implement. The entire team sat there with expresisons of disbelief, waiting for someone to be the first to say "I don't believe it"...

My stomach produced a long, loud, derisive sounding grumble. I said "I'm going to go with my gut on this one....." Cue tension-relieving laughter all round, and a full, frank and fruitful discussion about the proposed changes.

Seriously, you can chew all the charcoal tablets you want but some stomachs won't be over-ruled (and life's too short to chew charcoal!). The important thing is to find a way of dealing with it that works for you.

(Before I gave up trying to pretend that I had any control over it, I used to try to hide the noise of the rumbles. My 'persistent cough' has improved dramatically since then )

ciderwithrosie_2

Great comedy timing Coolcait! I suffer from 'gurgly guts' also and all you can do is laugh it off. Luckily, in our office I sit opposite a woman who's the same so we just make a joke out of it ...'was that you or me?' ....'Is that thunder or is it nearly lunchtime?'

Meadows

Could be you have mild IBS or excess acid try either Aloe Vera juice or Peppermint capsules to see if they help.

LittleChicken89

Hello! I have a similar thing, although mine tends to be the afternoon. I have been diagnosed with IBS, if you also have constipation and/or diarrhoea regularly it could be IBS. I find that it happens more often when I eat lots of fruit and veg, try a change of diet I have porridge for brekkie seems to work well!

arbroath_lass

I was the same - what do you have for breakfast? I'd recommend you try porridge and some protein (boiled egg?) - that helps me. As does not eating breakfast until 10.30. I can appreciate that is not always possible but I found my tummy did not rumble before that even though I'd eaten nothing.

Can you have a snack at 10.30ish - nothing major just something to stave of the worst rumbles.

fluffnutter

atlantis187 wrote: »

I've got quite an embarrasing issue. No matter even if I have a decent breakfast or not my stomach starts rumbling around 10.30am to 12pm not because i'm hungary just probably takes me ages to digest the breakfast. And its not faint rumbles its like an animal roarring or summat, on occassions fellow staff have made funny comments as in down boy.
Its really embarrasing because in our office its dead quite and u can hear a pin drop and when we have meeting its even worse.

This is really getting me down.

Oh bless you. To reassure yourself and/or perhaps see if there's anything that might help you could always visit your GP.

Personally I suspect it's a completely benign condition whose only real side effect is the embarrassment it causes you.

Try to pre-empt this. Laugh it off. Make a comment about it before others can. And remember that this is far more of a problem for you than it is for other people - they couldn't care less so try not to feel too self-conscious. We're all different.

*max*

I have this occasionally. Somehow it always seems to happen at very quiet times, like at the cinema. I totally sympathise, as I know those noises are very very loud, they sometimes go on forever, and there is nothing you can do to stop them! It sounds like how they portray people with a bad and sudden case of the runs in movies, so people will automatically think that's what you have. Very embarrassing. I have no advice, except maybe try the things people have suggested here, see if it helps. Commiserations!

Birdie85

This used to happen to me all the time, it started when I was at college and always seemed to happen in the middle of a very quiet class! I got in the habit of grazing on a cereal bar during the course of the morning to try to pre-empt any rumbly tumblies and I also cut out chewing gum. The chewing seemed to fill me with air and my stomach assumed it was getting fed and would end up grumbling. I cut out carbonated drinks (during the day anyway) which helped too. I still stick to these tips this years later.

I seem to have grown out of the worst of it now but it still happens every so often and it does tend to hit at the most embarrassing moments. I reckon more people 'suffer' than you'd think though, I remember not so long ago being in a looooong morning meeting with our entire department, about 70 people, and there were so many rumbling bellies we could have made music!

Florence22

Oh dear I wish I could grow out of it - unfortunately I'm in my 50's and still rumble as the clock strikes 10 am - regardless of porridge, protein, whatever I'd had for breakfast, nothing would stop it

Meetings were dreaded and I found the best thing for me was to have a quick snack (something on toast, or, if not possible then a small bar of chocolate, anything to stave it off).

I have learned to always have a packet of mints with me and regardless of who is in the meeting - keep sucking !!
However then I have a massive swollen tum of the "sugar-free" variety which can culminate in a far worse problem :rotfl::rotfl: - best of luck - oops, pardon me!!

Humour's the best way I think