Hi there!

A little history - I am 30 months post op/sleeve. I have had great success, but recently put back on 20 pounds. That isn't such a big deal to me as I still surpassed my surgeon's goal, but I am working to get it off.

My question is, has anyone at this stage experience painful gas and bloating? It's every time I eat, and sometimes just out of the blue. I am also on protonix, which helped initially about 6 mos-1 year after surgery. I've actually experience these problems for sometime, I just thought it was normal - but now its gotten so much worse. It doesn't seem anything will help...tums or rolaids might help a little, but not for long.

I haven't contacted my surgeon's office yet - he is actually now out of network with my insurance. I may ask my PCP to schedule an endoscopy.

Advice please????

I am 7 months behind you and every time I eat I belch constantly and my throat makes weird noises and there is nothing I can do about it. So I rarely eat out because of it. Mine started after I got scoped and never went away, it could of been coincidence that it started at that time for me. Hope you get some relief.

I’m 10 years post op rxy bypass and still have severe gas pains. It’s so bad right now that I couldn’t go to work. The pain comes and goes in time clusters. I’ll be fine for a couple of months and then I’ll suffer every day for a few weeks and then it’ll go away again for a few months. There’s no rhyme or reason to the occurrence and no patterns I can detect. I’m desperate to figure out a solution.