Optifast

I just started the optifast this morning and my stomach really hurts and I feel like I am about to explode :( My chest is even hurting I feel like a big ball of gas is this normal? Sorry if  that was TMI.

i think its normal for the first few days .. i remember ppl complaining with this. It never bothered me, but its cleaning out your system! Stick to it, it will get better!

Thanks lol, I just feel like those gas-x commercials where the person is blowing up like a balloon.

just wait till after surgery !  you'll have more gas than you thought humanly possible! LOL and Never trust a fart   one of my friends from here, still lives off of GAS X  lol.. you'll do great!  *i always talk about farts or something! *

lol

I am AMAZED on the amount of gas we produce now..................its unreal !!   Its normal-just your body adjusting. I've come to learn sugar alcohols produce alot of gas for me. You learn, you adjust

Good luck!

I was surprized that I never had any problems with the optifast, I actually loved the stuff, mainly the strawberry one.  Hopefully, you will get use to it soon.but, you might as well get use to the gas, it will be a big part of your life after the surgery. I just know that one day they will come up with a car that runs off natural gas and I will be a big supplier and make lots of money selling mine, lol. I'm tempted to run a garden hose from my butt to my car just to see if it will run off of it, lol. So I guess you get the big picture of how life is going to be after your surgery, so just stay away from open flames!                                                                                                                         Best of luck to you! Mary

Gas Gas Gas what to do what to do!!! hehehe sharon

I just wanted to say that this is my 4th day on it now and I feel so much better it took me two days for my stomach to get used to it. I feel great now though I am just having a little trouble getting that 5th shake in each day :/