Can I burp after the Lapband®?
Not so easily. As we eat we always swallow air and normally we would bring this back up again quite unconsciously. The Lapband® interferes with this easy bringing up of wind. It is common in the first few weeks after the procedure for people to notice a difficulty with bloating and the feeling that they want to burp but cannot. This rarely seems to persist as a problem months later. We presume that the stomach below the band changes its shape enough to reduce the problem but for whatever reason it does not seem to continue to be troublesome.
