I am post-op day 2 of Gastric Sleeves. Everything is going good EXCEPT Gas Pain! It is debilitating pain. I have been walking frequently and using Gas-X and a heating pad.

NOTHING IS HELPING!

Please help me !!!!

NewSleevedKellyRN

It will pass. It's awfully uncomfortable until it does, but walking is the best cure. I used to take care of postop patients who swore that gas pain was worse than the pain from their incisions - and this was before things were done laparoscopically.

I promise, it will get better.

All I can suggest is that you keep doing what you are doing: walking, sipping, heating pad, etc.

It will get better. If it's unbearable, call your surgeon's office to see if they have any ideas.

drink hot tea also sip on hot and move when i got the baND 10 YEARS AGO, It was suppose to be one day i stayed to nights because the gas pain was debilitating too. i walked around the hallways around the nurses stages around the whole damn floor i told the doctor on call that i am not leaving and going home with this pain, he wrote me a prescription i dont remember what it was but that allowed me to stay another night while continuing to walk sip on hot Water and taking whatever it was he gave me . the gas popped i literally felt it and heard it around the 100 on that second night . i went to sleep like a baby and went home the next day. Call your doctor and complain maybe he will call in a prescription for you to the pharmacy. good luck it will get better .... i dread going through this again for the sleeve on May 24th but i know it will be worth it.

Your doing the right thing!! Gas-ex...i even bought a fast acting gas releiver..im at work so cant give u the name that worked well for me PM me ill give u my number....

It will pass just sucks i know

The gas pain you are feeling are not the gas pains you are thinking of like "farts" they are gas bubbles trapped in your abdomen. Gas strips aren't going to help that kind of gas. It's a misconception a lot of people have. When a laparoscopic procedure is done, they employ cameras within the area; in an abdominal procedure, it is necessary to "inflate" the area, so the lense isn't constantly covered. What results are gas pains after surgery. They have to be reabsorbed into the body. Walking and moving around will help break up the bubbles. It sucks, I know but hopefully it will go away soon and not travel to your shoulder!

I'm 5 days post-op and thankfully gas pains were minimal. My surgeon was trialing a new co2 machine that works a little different than the traditional machines used during vsg surgery.

Typically, the machine will inflate the abdomen and continue to emit co2 for the duration of the surgery (albeit at different pressures), so as your abdomen can only take so much, the additional gas needs somewhere to go so it will often travel throughout the body and into the tissues. It's these *escaped* gasses that typically cause the most pain and are the most difficult to break up.

The machine my surgeon was using had a *circulating* aspect to it so once the abdomen was inflated, the machine would start to cycle some of the gas out while keeping it inflated at the same time.

Because of this, I have had close to zero gas pain except for just a bit on day 1, but very minimal and it worked out completely by the end of the day. It was great! Very blessed that he happened to be testing the machine the week of my surgery!