Gas After WLS No One Talks About

"If yours is only bad when you eat things you aren't supposed to eat, why are you eating those things so often that your husband has to sleep in a separate room every day?  Why do you eat those things every day?"

I was about to post the same thing. She knows what causes the issue for her yet continues to eat the things that trigger this? Hmmmmmm...

I have no issue with gas because I do not eat things that trigger gas for me. I have never cleared a room nor has my SO ever had to sleep in another room.

If you think people here avoid talking about post-op gas, then you haven't been reading the right posts.

I've been here about 11.5 years now, and some days it seems that every other post is about gas---what causes it, how to avoid it, even funny stories about it. It's a well-known potential side-effect of eating certain foods. It can also be caused or made worse by bacterial overgrown in the gut, and often be prevented or ameliorated by taking probiotics.

I suggest you sue the search function here.. You'll find thousands upon thousands of threads about gas and how to deal with it.

I took a moment to read your blog, you've been having this issue since 2005 - you acknowledged it only happens when you give in and over indulge in sf sweets.  

The only problem I have is when I give in to eat too much sugar free ice-cream or candy I get horrible gas.

I can only assume since you knew 9 years ago that eating certain things gives you these results but haven't stopped eating them. that the gas must not bother you and you want hubby in another room?

Well I just want to say I had my RNY on Monday and not only do the gas pains kill when it comes out it smells foul. And unlike suggested above im not eating anything aside from my protein, broth and liquid vitamins. So I'm not doing anything wrong or bad 

Since you are immediately post op, your gas is from the surgery and has nothing to do with food.  That is apples and oranges.

Lora

That is due to the actual operation. Once you are eating normally, you will soon learn if you have foods which trigger gas. Even th original poster clearly states that it is from specific foods. Post-op, with most abdominal surgeries, even not weight-loss ones, gas is common. 

I've said before that many of us have great cutters for surgeons (and that IS what we really need them for, isn't it?) but they can give terrible advice, particularly with nutrition and supplements, or in your case, possible post op issues, like gas (this isn't totally just for you, but many here feel their surgeons are gods, and follow horrible, health endangering advice from them, despite getting some great advice places like this). 

You're surgeons office could be more helpful regarding this, and honestly, if they actually don't know about the possible gas and poop issues, they are too clueless to give any advice.

You have gotten some great advice here so far, and I 100% agree with the use of probiotics to keep the beneficial flora in your gut. You can have some problematic flora in there too, and if you have any particularly bad ones or a real imbalance in bypassed guts, you may need a round of flagyl (a antibiotic, that your dr would have to prescribe) to wipe the slate clean so to speak. Some folks take this on their own, or long term to make it easier to eat what ever they want with stink-free abandon, but that is dangerous on several levels so please don't even consider that. Again, not something your dr would want you doing unless you have a genuine issue in bypassed gut.

You would have to take some probiotics after that, to make sure the good guys get the upper hand when there is no competition from the stink causers, but I take probiotics daily both naturally in my food, and supplements as they discover new health benefits from different probiotics literally every day ( or conversely, bad things from having the wrong flora in the gut, one notable study links gut flora to obesity). I factor them into my supplement routine and know they contribute greatly to my lack of farts and smell, as I'm not a particularly careful eater. 

And lastly, sugar alcohols used to artificially sweeten things ( the ones that end in "itol", like those in sf gummi bears) are the worst for painful, plentiful and pungent gas! They are the devil even for "normies" without any bypassed guts.

I'm almost 6 years out, and have mercifully little gas, but made one notable huge exception when I was maybe a year out. Unless I plan to commit suicide by either exploding from gas that can't escape fast enough, or suffocation when my farts suck all the oxygen out of the room, I will NEVER again eat more the a very few sugar free gummies at a time. Ever.