I'm 2 days post op and I was walking the 1st day as instructed to pass this gas! But nothing I feel it moving though my insides but it won't come out either end! Nurses say pill wi t help because the concentrate on gas in the stomach and that this gas isn't located there! Please help

Some of the CO2 gas will have to diffuse through your bloodstream. The only way to help speed this up is to walk a good deal as often as you possibly can. The gas will use the laws of physics and travel upwards towards your shoulders.

For me..i didnt notice the gas moving through my body till 4 days post op..then i was farting and burping storm..but for the first few days i walked and walked and walked and nothing..The best help was my mom rubbing my back downward, taking gas x, having a shower and using a heating pad

I did walk. But, the gas did not started.passing until my 4 day post op. I had issues with gas prior to surgery and I take prescribed Pepcide.

again, remember (as Justin said), this das was used to "inflate" your abdominal cavity for surgery. Has nothing to do with your mouth, stomach, and lower GI.

Wish they could put the bloody thing in reverse and suck the gas out when they're done! Like a medical Foodsaver.

Oh gmanbat oh I wish! I want to stick a tube in an deflate! I'm in so much pain! I am prepared to walk to Jerusalem and back to get this gas out my body!!

@Heather Meyer and peachie86 I always considered myself a lady but I would fart for a nickel right about now lol! Going for a walk later!

Hi everyone ...I'm 11 days post -op & down 10 lbs. per the scale on monday( I weigh in weekly) so ill weigh in again on this coming Monday.....I had terrible gas day of surgery and day 1 after surgery by day 2 after surgery it was gone.... I was told that the only way to get rid of the gas was to walk and so I walked and walked and walked.. Every time I used the ladies room I walked around the entire nurses unit...the gas pain was very bad for me I wasn't passing gas til day 2 and that's also when I had a bm. But I belched continuously... My gas slowly went down and not up to my shoulders.. Otherwise I only had soreness at my incision sites.... No pain. Best wishes!

I walked a lot and it took 3 or 4 days before the gas seem to subside some. Surgery 8/27/13.

When I got out of surgery and the next day, I had NO gas pain at all. After that second night, I started having a little but still didn't pass gas until the next day. I'm STILL trying to get all of the gas out because it's still there. I can feel it especially when I drink my 1oz of fluid. I was finally allowed to use the Gas-X strips once I got home and they do help a lot.

Gas-x is my friend!

I walked every friggen hour for 36 hours..very broken sleep and i was one of the only ones doing that cause everyone else seemed to be on morphine..Those three days made a huge difference.