I woke up this morning with a gas feeling in my chest and left shoulder and burping. My major concern is getting down the fluids without feeling like I have chest pains and have a "stuck" feeling in my chest. Should that be happening??? I don't want to take in fluids because of this and not to mention I haven't had a BM since my surgery 2 days ago.

I woke up this morning with a gas feeling in my chest and left shoulder and burping. My major concern is getting down the fluids without feeling like I have chest pains and have a "stuck" feeling in my chest. Should that be happening??? I don't want to take in fluids because of this and not to mention I haven't had a BM since my surgery 2 days ago.

I had my surgery on 3/29. I also had the gas really badly directly following surgery and up until yesterday. I have been using the gas x strips. Definitely try those. Also use an over the counter medication like Tagament or something similar for that stuck feeling. It really helps to break up the gas. You really also need to be sipping Water, doing Protein drinks and the sugar free popsicles have been a godsend.

Good luck!

I know what you mean, I just had surgery on March 28th and it was day 3 before I had a BM and 2 days before I released a small amount of gas, but now its day 6 and its a coming lol, the gas pain will get better but I felt horrible for the first 2 days and it mostly was due to the gas pain. But they are right, you need to drink Water and Protein shakes in order to try and feel better and try to walk when your up to it, this too will release the gas pressure. I used gas x as well but now I hear beano works alot better.

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I was banded last year in april and suffered excruciating gas pain for about a week or so following surgery. I fould that liquid maalox worked the best for me and was easy to swallow. hang in there it does get better soon.