Maintenance and ummm... gas

Tkartz
on 3/12/18 8:24 am - Ogden, UT

RNY on 03/22/17

So I started maintenance recently and am having horrible, smelly gas that I wasn't having before I started maintenance. I've added a little fruit but not that much. Anyone else experience this? Any suggestions to help it? I can barely stand myself! LOL

ScottAndrews
on 3/12/18 9:19 am

RNY on 03/20/17

Google " fructose malabsorption"

That could be your likely culprit.

H.A.L.A B.
on 3/12/18 7:27 pm

RNY on 05/14/08

Some fruits give me wicked gas, others - not so much.

Google FODMAP diet. Fruits high in FODMAP give me really bad gas.

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

MickeyDee
on 3/16/18 10:36 pm

While you're figuring out what the culprit is, get some Devrom (available online). It's a fecal deodorant. I chew 3 or 4 tabs before eating and it takes the stink out of the gas and feces. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

And, yeah, sugar alcohols such as malitol, sorbitol, artificial sweetners, will definitely cause "digestive distress".