The older I get the louder and more frequent the noise gets. I should buy stock in GasX. I try to remember Beano when I eat but sometimes forget. 🔒Login to see image
Does anyone have any other solutions? It is driving me crazy!!
Thanks!
Sophie
Xerxes
Sep 21, 2012 1:13 am
Sophie,
Yes, this is an age old problem for me. I know that it is definitely tied into the type of food that I have recently eaten before the gurgling starts. I do not have a true and tried solution personally, but on here I believe I read once that eating marshmallows can help significantly with this problem.
I have learned a lot from this site. People are willing to share things that has worked for them, Things like supplies, skin care, different surgeies,blockages, and a lot more.
three
Sep 21, 2012 7:41 pm
Hi Sophie ~ I have sometimes wondered if actor/comedian Leslie Nielsen, who was known for his whoopee cushion pranks, was a closet ostomate with a "hidden whoopee cushion diversion":
Here's an August 25, 1993 article by Richard Sandomir in the New York Times:
AT DINNER WITH LESLIE NIELSEN
Could this be the once-elegant Leslie Nielsen? Inside the restaurant, waiters didn't know whether to eject the actor or to dissolve in embarrassed laughter. Nearby diners were caught between astonishment and shame. A movie actor making such undignified noises! Mickey Rourke might do this, but here was the cinematic captain of the S.S. Poseidon with the ennobling white hair attacking the high-ceilinged back room with the breezy reports of a hand-held whoopee cushion, a device he has toted globally for 18 years.
"I've done it on almost every network, at the White House, in Japan, Denmark, Holland, Australia," he said. He was unrepentant.
The resonant rubber toy was tucked in his large left hand, under the table or in his jacket pocket. He operated deftly, out of sight, to punctuate the tales he told over dinner.
"I've never found anything that gets people down to earth faster," he said. "People approach me as an authority figure, which isn't in my makeup. Two cranks of this and people talk to me the way I want."
Mr. Nielsen's girlfriend, Barbaree Earl, first experienced his sonic onslaught when he emptied a Hawaiian art gallery 13 years ago. "He lives for elevators," she said dryly.
Here was the true Leslie Nielsen. Once, he played a thousand dramatic, debonair, villainous, romantic, sophisticated, yukless roles in films and television. He was an injured pilot opposite Debbie Reynolds in "Tammy and the Bachelor" (1957), a spaceship commander playing opposite a robot in "Forbidden Planet" (1956). For more than three decades, the prankster chortling inside him -- a Joe E. Brown! a Larry Fine! a Guy Kibbee! -- hoped for a chance to emerge on screen as a joker, yearned to escape the Hollywood pigeonhole his princely looks had stuffed him into.
"I've always been a closet comedian," he said, over a languid dinner of mussels, red snapper, martinis, and sound effects at Brasserie Pascal, an elegant new restaurant near Lincoln Center, on a recent stormy Sunday.
