I'm 7 days post op and this has been the very worst day of all! I would have figured that all the surgical gas would be gone by now, but oh no, it came back with a vengeance! There hasn't been enough walking, gas x strips, or papaya enzyme to get rid of it!!! The good news is, that I went for my follow up and all is healing as it should be and I've lost 16 lbs, 9 since surgery. So I just have to see this as a small bump in the road and tomorrow is a new day.

The surgical gas does not exit through your digestive system (unless your surgeon really screwed up), and and 8 months after surgery, I can tell you, no it doesn't end.

Never.

Holy Cow! I have had abdominal surgery before and the gas pains have never lasted this long!

mine was gone pretty quickly but i walked all the time. I don't remember it being painful but then again it has been a while. Whoever mentioned 8 months and still gas, i don't think that is from surgery. If you are still having pain from gas that far out, you need to be talking to the Dr.

I get gassy from protein, it's not still surgical gas. The higher my intake, the more gas I get. It's really bad with protein shots.

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Hi. I have just posted on this issue. It's not surgery gas after a few days. It is nerve pain. Horrible, excruciating and almost unbearable which is a typical nerve pain. Apparently the diaphragms has a nerve pathway that is shared b the left shoulder. When our diaphragms is stimulated when we eat too much or too quickly, the diaphragms reacts, the nerve reacts in the diaphragms and the shoulder. It is HELL!! It can be a avoided...... I think....... By eating slowly and limiting the amount to 300mls max.

My gas finally subsided somewhere around the 9th and 10th day.

Once the internal swelling goes down around the 2nd week u'll be back to ur old self.

Keep walking & I also found sitting out in the sun & heating pads helped.