What is the name for all that noise our stomach makes

[Swirl]

What is the name for all that noise our stomach makes?
I'm on the bus and it does this a lot. It makes to much noise! Im at work and it does this a lot!!! This sucks. I just want to hit the hell out of my stomach.
What in the world can make this sound stop???

 

[rygon]

If you find out tell me !!! Just come back frm a week of snowboarding / drinking and my guts have been making really weird sounds (internal farts) think it has something to do with the beer actually but it sounds / feels weird

 

[imisspopcorn]

It's the voice of an angry stomach...Or the Crohn's alien trying to escape...I haven't decided what to call it. Mine usually happens at church. The people in the next seat probably think I am possessed...It is very embarrassing! I am waiting for them to bust out the holy water and perform an exorcism sometimes.

 

[mharvey90]

spasms!!!! i think i have a few posts about my experience with my obnoxious stomach spasms. so bad to the point that i'm registered at disability services at my university because the anxiety of the sounds happening prevents me from being able to take exams in a silent room with my peers...so now i get to take my exams in a private room. mine happens in my strictured area in the terminal ileum area. getting it snipped out in May though, so i hope the terrible noises stop! I also call it my alien...because sometimes it makes strange animal sounds, and it also tends to protrude out of my abdomen when it gets really bad

 

[mharvey90]

It's the voice of an angry stomach...Or the Crohn's alien trying to escape...I haven't decided what to call it. Mine usually happens at church. The people in the next seat probably think I am possessed...It is very embarrassing! I am waiting for them to bust out the holy water and perform an exorcism sometimes.

haha! we both call it our alien :ybatty: ...hate how it always seems to happen during the quietest times...

 

[rygon]

tell you what tho...i know where my large intestines are by listening to the noise going through. Quite cool lol

 

[Nyx]

At least you guys don't have to worry about farts! At least you can kind of hold them in if you have to! I have absolutely no control over mine...seems to happen the loudest when I'm out with people I don't know that well. The look on their faces is priceless though! They're trying to figure out how THAT noise is coming from my stomach rather than my butt...lmao

 

[dreamintwilight]

Ha! I say my stomach is "growling like an alien." That's interesting that you can be put on disability services for that. I never thought it! I remember taking my SATs (this was before my Dx) and my stomach was making all these noises I couldn't concentrate because I was trying to suffocate the noises out of embarassment. Wish I would have known about something like that then!

 

[Swirl]

Nyx oh that's hard to deal with, not always so bad I guess with ppl you know.

Alien lol I like that. I may get a tattoo of a alien with this other tattoo I wanted. Sounds good. Right now its making sounds..... I think its my colon to my butt. Farts I can control except when I gotta pee. Lol sometimes at work when I gotta pee, I feel number 2 wanting to come....I be like 'oh hell no!' I hope I don't have a accident. I laugh when im done too.

When things are quite around me is when my stomach usually acts up. I hate being in a quite room in public, that sucks.
My dog actually looks at me when he hears my stomach.
Going to youtube to find out more info and video of our insides.
Glad to see I'm not alone.

 

[Misty-Eyed]

lol mine does it all the time too through my strictures. Most people just think I'm very hungry lol. I don't mind it though, my stomach likes the attention and I just laugh it off. I'd prefer it to stay in there though and cause noise rather than wanting to come out in public places.....

 

[mharvey90]

dreamintwilight, thats exactly my problem. instead of concentrating on my exam, i am concentrating on what positions i can sit in to muffle my crazy loud sounds. and they don;t even sound like a hungry tummy growl...sounds more like some weird animal or something. that's why i call it my alien haha....i see that many people on here name their colostomy bags...i've been thinking about naming my alien!

 

[GoJohnnyGo]

Oh geez, sometimes my tummy sounds like an asthmatic elephant. Mostly middle of the night.

 

[violetcreams]

Oh me too! In meetings at work I always wrap my arms around my middle, to try to muffle the gut symphony. I do a kind of low down version of folded arms. I must look completely ridiculous.

 

[teeny5]

Always happens to me right at the quietest times. I haven't found a way to make it stop. People either think I am farting or really hungry. Soooooo embarrassing!

 

[gibby]

Oh geez, sometimes my tummy sounds like an asthmatic elephant. Mostly middle of the night.

absoloute brilliance......that is EXACTLY what it sounds like....brilliant!


:ylol2:

 

[Crohn's 35]

My stomach does it but not as much as the rest of you. I try to drink my water slow and almost room temperature, dont eat and drink at the same time and chew your food slowly. Eat smaller meals thru the day, empty stomachs have room to make gas and gurgling sounds. Dont use straws, or drink sodas. Using probiotics also help too. Not sure if this helps but maybe it could help someone.

 

[gibby]

thanks pen, that sounds like pretty good advice....my tum has been a bit crazy recently and that all sounds like it would help...thanks

 

[GoJohnnyGo]

My stomach does it but not as much as the rest of you. I try to drink my water slow and almost room temperature, dont eat and drink at the same time and chew your food slowly. Eat smaller meals thru the day, empty stomachs have room to make gas and gurgling sounds. Dont use straws, or drink sodas. Using probiotics also help too. Not sure if this helps but maybe it could help someone.

Doesn't make a lick of difference for me, Penny. It's got a mind of its own!

 

[Swirl]

Lol, funny posts.
Thanks Jettalady! I will try some of your advice. The noise itself can cause depression lol

 

[MacJr]

I'm there with you! The worst part about my job is that it entails lots of meetings in quiet, small rooms. I've actually gone into a panic attack because I had to sit in a meeting for an entire day and "the alien" wouldn't shut up for nothing. To bad we can't all work together! Then we wouldn't have to worry about the noises.

 

[mharvey90]

To bad we can't all work together! Then we wouldn't have to worry about the noises.

hahah how awesome would that be.

 

[Phartologist]

Noises?

My graphic below says it all!!!!!:lol::ybatty::ybatty::ybatty:

 

[Astra]

If you sit really still and watch your belly, does it move? really freaky, like there's a baby in there pushing it's arm out, then growls, I keep expecting that thing from 'Alien' to burst thro
I'm gonna call mine the Alien from now on. that's ace, mharvey
xxx

 

[Pirate]

Joan, when I was at my lowest wieght (118 lbs) I would lay on the bed and Janis would watch as my stomach would have a lump travel from one spot to another with every gurgle I experianced. Of course each time it moved I was in so much pain. When I tried to tell her how bad it hurt all I could say was labor pains. She had a hard time believing me all these years until she read a few posts from some of the ladies on here that said the same thing.

Right now I have a musical going on in my gut. A little out of tune.

 

[uab grad student]

I have developed quite the noisy gut too... can you tell where it is rumbling from? I swear I can feel something inside moving when I hear the loud gurgling noises so I think it might be food trying to pass through the stricture. I don't find it too embarassing though, since I work with a lot of people and the old addage, "if you smelt it you dealt it" is always assumed when it comes to farts or other bodily noises... that is if someone else brings it up, everyone just assumes it is them and not me. ;-)

 

[Meltric]

I have been experiencing this problem for as long as I can remember! Had gone to the doctor about it and I was put on every diet imaginable, all along I guess it was my crohn's screaming for attention. I've experienced the panick attacks, the attempts to muffle, and just like someone up there I do the whole low arm cross hahaha love that I'm not alone! it get easier to deal with as the years go on... I find that it happens less when I am not all tense and instead relaxed

 

[David in Seattle]

What is the name for all that noise our stomach makes?

The technical term is borborygmi. Sounds a bit like some form of Asian paper-folding art, doesn't it???:ylol2:

 

[Swift]

Humph my 'Borborygmi' decided to let itself be heard today in a very quiet church at a very somber moment - the vicar says 'let us sit quietly and remember with affection ........' (i was at a friends funeral) and then right on que my guts are off gurgling and making really load internal farting noises!
I know my friend would have found it really funny, but i so wanted to climb into the coffin with her and close the lid! Members of the congregation were staring at me and turning in their pews. Maybe it is a stress thing, but it doesn't seem to matter what i do, how i eat it happens.

 

[mharvey90]

If you sit really still and watch your belly, does it move? really freaky, like there's a baby in there pushing it's arm out, then growls, I keep expecting that thing from 'Alien' to burst thro
I'm gonna call mine the Alien from now on. that's ace, mharvey
xxx

haha, that is exactly what happens to me. there are definitely some days I could pass for a pregnant woman, because (a) how bloated I get when I go days without using the bathroom and (b) how my alien tries to push its way though my abdomen...it feels/looks like a baby kicking!