OK, since 8/30 surgery date, I have the "farts" sooooo bad, not just a couple little ones here and there, but big ones all day and night etc...... Still on full liquids, but mostly just doing Water and Optifast still, sometimes a cream Soup,, occasional little bites of foods, here and there.. And I am not exagerating, they are a lot of big ones, not necessarily all that smelly, sometimes they rank,, but geesh this has to stop sometime right,,, I really didnt have the gas pains as I was up and walking hours after my surgery several times through the night and I stay pretty active now...... I tried the maalox max to see if it would help,,,NOPE, and I used Phazyme--Nope, no help for the "smelly" here.

I mean, C'mon now I can compete with the best of men and their farts...lol

I was tempted to pull the covers up over my hunnys head, just to do what he has done to me before,,, Geesh why do guys think that is sooooo funny...

LOL consider yourself lucky. Six months post op and I can rarely muster up a burp or a fart heh .. sometimes I think I'm gonna explode!!

It'll probably diminish when you start on real food...

Ah welcome to the joys of banded life. Yes, that is VERY VERY normal. GasX...LOTS OF IT. Take double the dose and take it as often as you think of it. Take MORE than the package says to....just keep taking it. It never completely goes away, I think it's part of banded life...but it does get MUCH less in severity.

Why is it that I can't burp???? What's the deal