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Word of advice. If you have pain especially gas pains...take gas x strips..had my surgery in Thursday...had the worst gas pain till I took gas x

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Word of advice. If you have pain especially gas pains...take gas x strips..had my surgery in Thursday...had the worst gas pain till I took gas x

I have been taking gas x but the heating pad is the best for me really

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Gas X will not work on the gas pumped in your abdomen. Walking and heating pad and your pain meds will help.

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The gas pumped into you during surgery is completely different then the gas you normally get, so gas x does nothing for it. Getting up and moving around is the quickest way to disburse the gas.

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Gas x def worked for me. My doc told me the same thing bout strip so I didn't.take them right away n was in pain for two days....the third day I took one w baby ibuprofen..n within one hr passed a big one...sorry tmi

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I stayed ahead of the pain with pain meds and also took gas x. It wasn't a bad recovery.

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Had my surgery this morning also, was doing great until tonight. Gas pains getting worse, doing a lot of walking and breathing exercise, has x strips, and it's not helping yet. When people are saying they stay ahead of the pain, are you taking more pain medicine than the recommended 4 hours?

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Had my surgery this morning also' date=' was doing great until tonight. Gas pains getting worse, doing a lot of walking and breathing exercise, has x strips, and it's not helping yet. When people are saying they stay ahead of the pain, are you taking more pain medicine than the recommended 4 hours?[/quote']

Nope, I took pain meds as directed. The walking was really the thing that helped me with the gas. It really did get better each day though.

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