Having a hard time passing this gas.. Please help

[team135 5]

I'm 2 days post op and I was walking the 1st day as instructed to pass this gas! But nothing I feel it moving though my insides but it won't come out either end! Nurses say pill wi t help because the concentrate on gas in the stomach and that this gas isn't located there! Please help

[Justinh125 472]

Some of the CO2 gas will have to diffuse through your bloodstream. The only way to help speed this up is to walk a good deal as often as you possibly can. The gas will use the laws of physics and travel upwards towards your shoulders.

[Heather Meyer 103]

For me..i didnt notice the gas moving through my body till 4 days post op..then i was farting and burping storm..but for the first few days i walked and walked and walked and nothing..The best help was my mom rubbing my back downward, taking gas x, having a shower and using a heating pad

[peachie86 63]

I did walk. But, the gas did not started.passing until my 4 day post op. I had issues with gas prior to surgery and I take prescribed Pepcide.

[Arts137 1,811]

again, remember (as Justin said), this das was used to "inflate" your abdominal cavity for surgery. Has nothing to do with your mouth, stomach, and lower GI.

[gmanbat 5,889]

Wish they could put the bloody thing in reverse and suck the gas out when they're done! Like a medical Foodsaver.

[team135 5]

Oh gmanbat oh I wish! I want to stick a tube in an deflate! I'm in so much pain! I am prepared to walk to Jerusalem and back to get this gas out my body!!

[team135 5]

@Heather Meyer and peachie86 I always considered myself a lady but I would fart for a nickel right about now lol! Going for a walk later!

[blessngs2rsleeve 7]

Hi everyone ...I'm 11 days post -op & down 10 lbs. per the scale on monday( I weigh in weekly) so ill weigh in again on this coming Monday.....I had terrible gas day of surgery and day 1 after surgery by day 2 after surgery it was gone.... I was told that the only way to get rid of the gas was to walk and so I walked and walked and walked.. Every time I used the ladies room I walked around the entire nurses unit...the gas pain was very bad for me I wasn't passing gas til day 2 and that's also when I had a bm. But I belched continuously... My gas slowly went down and not up to my shoulders.. Otherwise I only had soreness at my incision sites.... No pain. Best wishes!

[Kathie5353 53]

I walked a lot and it took 3 or 4 days before the gas seem to subside some. Surgery 8/27/13.

[sixbuttons 102]

When I got out of surgery and the next day, I had NO gas pain at all. After that second night, I started having a little but still didn't pass gas until the next day. I'm STILL trying to get all of the gas out because it's still there. I can feel it especially when I drink my 1oz of Fluid. I was finally allowed to use the Gas-X strips once I got home and they do help a lot.

[Kathie5353 53]

Gas-x is my friend!

[Heather Meyer 103]

I walked every friggen hour for 36 hours..very broken sleep and i was one of the only ones doing that cause everyone else seemed to be on morphine..Those three days made a huge difference.