BAKING SODA....gas

CHONUFF
on 4/21/09 3:45 am - WI
Hey have anyone used baking soda for gas post op?? or can you use baking soda because it IS acidic.  if not baking soda, have anyone used pepsid??? what have you used for gas besides gas-x, beano.  home remedies maybe???? ones that may be pouch cooperative.
Lavender
on 4/21/09 3:49 am - Northern, CA
pepcid ac works wonders for me.

 

CHONUFF
on 4/21/09 3:52 am - WI

LAVENDER,
will it make you burp? i swear i need to burp.  and will this be ok with my pouch i am 1 day from being a month out.

Lavender
on 4/21/09 4:01 am - Northern, CA
check with  your surgeon and see if he or she recommends you take the pepcid...but, to answer your question yes, it does help me to burp....the good thing is it working almost immediately.

 

wonkad
on 4/21/09 4:06 am - IL
I never took anything for gas. I was thankfully able to walk it out.

Please call your surgeon about taking baking soda. It can interfere with iron/diabetes medication absorption and should be taken one hour before you eat.

Could the gas be coming from the way that you are eating or drinking? If I rush my drinking, I can feel my pouch filling with air.

Hope you're able to find a solution.

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**Weight loss since June 08**

 

CHONUFF
on 4/21/09 4:13 am - WI
wonka,

Maybe it is when i am drinking and trying to eat.  I am calling my surgeon right now, i havent really been trying to many more foods because i think it is still to early for me.  i am trying a little of something solid once a day.  Like today i had a slice of turckey wrapped with a slice of provalone cheese.  i think i got in about 5 or 6 grams of protein from that.  but i was experienceing this burping feeling before i tried it and now it seems as though it is subsiding a little.
wonkad
on 4/21/09 4:18 am - IL
Is it a burping ? I hiccup on occasion also. I had that also early out and my doc increased my prevacid solutabs from once a day to three times a day. He also put me on Carafate for a month.

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**Weight loss since June 08**

 

CHONUFF
on 4/21/09 4:27 am - WI
wonka,

I am talking to the nurse right now!!...hang on!
CHONUFF
on 4/21/09 4:42 am - WI
wonka,

ok, i talked to the nurse and she said i can take pepsid or tums but said she doesnt know about the baking soda right now because there is already a lot going on in my pouch right now.  So now that i know that, i will definately keep the pepsid in mind when i have gas.  she also said it may be that i am drinking my water to fast. 

Thank ya gurly!! 
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