Gas pain! Dreading this

[TinksUK 2]

Hi guys!
I have bypass surgery on 9th January, and overall very nervous!

I had a gastric sleeve in 2016, and the gas pain post op was horrendous, I am seeiously freaking out about this happening again.

Has anyone got any advice from their experience apart feom peppermint juice?

[Arabesque 7,416]

Walk, walk, walk. Deep slow breathing. March on the spot (standing or sitting), lift your arms (carefully) up & down. Gotta get the gas moving up & then breathed out. Heat packs can help.

How much gas pain you have depends on your surgeon, how much they need to use to inflate your abdominal region & how you process it.

[PsychoMantis 9]

On 1/2/2023 at 3:02 PM, TinksUK said:

Hi guys!
I have bypass surgery on 9th January, and overall very nervous!

I had a gastric sleeve in 2016, and the gas pain post op was horrendous, I am seeiously freaking out about this happening again.

Has anyone got any advice from their experience apart feom peppermint juice?

I find it interesting that so many people had gas pain from the sleeve, I had zero gas pain, only pain from the incisions, but to be fair I think I slept through it. I don’t remember waking up in recovery at all. I only remember waking up at 8 pm thinking the incision pain was horrible whenever I moved. I had more gas pain when I had my hysterectomy.

Edited January 12, 2023 by PsychoMantis