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Rolaids Spells Fast Relief!

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buttafly

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Well it's been 2 weeks and I'm down 15 lbs. :tt1: After I woke up from surgery, I had a lot of back pain. Since I had abdominal surgery I was really confused as to why my back was hurting. First the nurse said it was because I had been laying down so long. Hmm, well I lay down for 8 hours every night and I don't wake up with back pain...but in any case, I tried to sit up and walk as much as I could but the nausea made that quite difficult. The next morning the nausea was gone but not the back pain. I again asked the nurse, a different one and she said that it was trapped air aka gas and that I needed to get up and walk around. So for the next few days, I tried to do exactly that. At one point, the pain was so bad I thought I would pass out. I had started to think that my spine had somehow been injured during surgery. I finally decided to try some GasX, after a couple of hours of excruciating pain... it did nothing. I had also bought a some Rolaids extra strength antacid and antigas and decided to try that. What a relief!!Within minutes I felt better and was bouncing around wereas I could barely walk before. I had no idea that my back pain was gas, usually pain from that is in your side or stomach not your back! Other than the terrible gas I had, there was relatively little pain. The moral of this story...if you have that kind of pain when you wake up from surgery, take some Rolaids. I needlessly suffered for 4 days!

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Well it's been 2 weeks and I'm down 15 lbs. :) After I woke up from surgery, I had a lot of back pain. Since I had abdominal surgery I was really confused as to why my back was hurting. First the nurse said it was because I had been laying down so long. Hmm, well I lay down for 8 hours every night and I don't wake up with back pain...but in any case, I tried to sit up and walk as much as I could but the nausea made that quite difficult. The next morning the nausea was gone but not the back pain. I again asked the nurse, a different one and she said that it was trapped air aka gas and that I needed to get up and walk around. So for the next few days, I tried to do exactly that. At one point, the pain was so bad I thought I would pass out. I had started to think that my spine had somehow been injured during surgery. I finally decided to try some GasX, after a couple of hours of excruciating pain... it did nothing. I had also bought a some Rolaids extra strength antacid and antigas and decided to try that. What a relief!!Within minutes I felt better and was bouncing around wereas I could barely walk before. I had no idea that my back pain was gas, usually pain from that is in your side or stomach not your back! Other than the terrible gas I had, there was relatively little pain. The moral of this story...if you have that kind of pain when you wake up from surgery, take some Rolaids. I needlessly suffered for 4 days!

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Thanks! I just added that to my shopping list. I'm getting banded on the 18th. I remember having a lot of gas with my 2nd C-section because I had my tubes tied then. The nurese said it was worse that time because they had blown up my stomach with gas & moved things around. Wish I had known about the Rolaids then!

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