I am reading conflicting info. Will GasX strips actually help relieve the gas pain in your chest and back that was pumped in during surgery?

Walking helped me the most as well. Start slow and build up. Even if slow means walking to the end of your driveway and back[emoji6]

Yes those strips helped me so much i used them for about 2 weeks to a month after surgery...walking too...

I guess they gave me some meds. As soon as I complained about shoulder pain they fiddled with my iv and the pain was gone in minutes.

As for Gas-X, the doc laughed when he saw mine and said all the americans bring that. I never used it because I was never poop chute gassy. In fact for my hysterectomy they made me stay in the hospital an extra day because I had not passed gas and until I did. Whis is weird bc normally I'm gassy.

I think the Gas-X is for intestinal gas, methane, CH4. I think the shoulder pain is residual proppant gas, carbon dioxide, CO2. In most chemical reactions the chemistry is important so I guess it is here too, ie Gas- X is intended for CH4 only.

My surgeon told me that Gas-X doesn't help after laparoscopic surgery because they're meant to help gas in your stomach not in the abdominal cavity where CO2 is injected to provide your surgeon with a better view of your organs. Then the CO2 may irritate the diaphragmatic nerves and that pain is referred upwards and eventually landing in (and aggravating) the shoulder.

Not immediately after surgery. Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. Mine was very painful.

My surgeon said they would only help with stomach gas-not gas in the body cavity.

They gave me drops at the hospital and that stops any pain immediately

They helped me , I went through about half of the box, before everything settled down. Mostly stomach gas.

I didnt start using gas x till i got home and they really helped, they wouldnt let me use them in the hospital

They were a waste


Surgery: 04/11/17

SW:257
CW: 240
GW: 150

2 days post op here. They helped me. The gas pain is no joke when it radiates to back and shoulders.

I asked my surgeon about the strips and he said they only help with gas in the stomach, not the gas they put inside our abdomen to puff us up....as that is outside the stomach. It makes since if you think about it. Your stomach and digestive system are closed so how will gas x get rid of gas outside the stomach and digestive system...

Didn't help me lol

The gas in outside of the stomach so i doubt it but some people swear by them.

People who are swearing by them had intestinal gas.