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I was banded July 2nd. It went fine, but around the start of the 2nd week, I started having a lot of gas bubble pain. I'm in my 4th week out now and I am in constant pain. I always have a stomach ache and now heartburn too. I can't really eat. It just accentuates the pain. I'm living on Protein shakes, Tums, Gas-X, Phazyme and Baby Motrin. I'm walking a couple miles a day. I've tried glycerine suppositories and sodium bicarbonate. I wake up with gas pain and bloat every morning. Some mornings, I get nauseous from the air and just trying to get medication down to deal with it. Then, I just ebb into a long painful day. I've surfed the web endlessly looking for something else to try. I've taken to spitting all day long so I dont unintentionally swallow any air when when I swallow saliva. It's so gross. It takes me hours to drink a glass of Water. Everytime I look at food, all I see is more stomach ache. I'm so tired of being in pain all the time. It's just endless. Does anybody have any other ideas that might help?

Air....I had a lot of air trapped in my stomach after the surgery. Used the gasx, walked, etc...It dissipated slowly and uncomfortably in the form of painful air bubbles that I could feel start in my stomach and move up through my chest. Now, for the most part I'm fine during the day but, I wake up about 3 or 4 AM every morning with excruciating chest pain and I can feel I'm full of air. As soon as I turn on either side, these painful air bubbles start to move up through my chest. This will go on for the better part of the morning until around 10 AM. Every Morning. And it hurts really bad. GasX doesn't do anything for me. I kind of sleep fitfully in beween air bubbles for a few more hours, and it's bearable by around 6 or 7 AM. By afternoon, it'll be okay the rest of the day, and then I'll go to bed and it starts all over. I'll wake up in excruciating pain around 3 AM. Did anyone else have this happen and did you find anyway to deal with it? Does it go away or does this last forever?