Help!!! Bad gas all the time

Most shakes have artificial sweetener. Try eliminating artificial sweetener and see if that helps.

What are all the different types of food you've tried? Please provide specifics so DS vets can help troubleshoot.

Probiotic, make sure you're taking enough calcium, carbs are maj******akers, and an anti-gas med if the above doesn't work.

Go to whole food. Not the store, but just real food that doesn't have additives like corn starch, guar gum, food starch, etc. Start with chicken breast or red meat without fat for every meal for 2 days (not the frozen frankenfood, or fast food, prepared food. It must be real meat, cooked yourself from raw real meat). Water is the only beverage on those days. Add one food a day and keep a diary of how it affects you. [Nothing from fast food, the deli counter, a frozen meal, or anything in a box. They can be tested later.] Next day, add eggs cooked with little fat. [fast food eggs are the worst for me, they add starch to them.]

Next, add yogurt. The one with the fewest ingredients on the label, that's usually not the familiar brand name labels. (You will learn to read labels). Next add other meats, like lean hamburger (no buns). Next day, milk. Peanut butter.

After that, add your favorite foods, one at a time to see what's causing your problems. A single food a day was how I started. There are foods I identified during this test that I still don't eat, like deli ham.

Definitely start probiotics (not with a prebiotic, lethal gas for me) or kefir ( withno sugar, no additives). Good luck. We have all been there.

Thanks for all your replies.. That is a good plan Eliza. I guess it's just the reality that these operations don't change the root cause , the food addiction and DS forces me to deal with it or suffer the consequences and it is a haaaaard lesson!

Carbs, high fiber grains, SA and raw veggies can give me a horrible gas.

Read about high FODMAP foods. Most on that list can give me really bad smelling plus painful gas. Avoiding high FODMAP stuff then try to add one at a time.

I hate having gas and the pain it can cause.

I can eat some veggies but well cooked. Some I still have to avoid, like beans, onion and garlic. No matter how well I cook them, try digestive enzymes, it is not worth for me.

SA - sugar alcohols, even small amount in chewing gums, or chewable vitamins can give me bad painful gas.

Two things. I came out of the DS sensitive to lactose. It eventually went away but any type of milk or ice cream gave me a lot of gas. It lasted about 6 months, I used lact-aid and frozen yogurt to get around those limitations. It wasn't so bad that everything gave me gas.

You also might go on a heavy dose of probiotics. Sometimes this is just an imbalance in your gut biome. You should discuss with your Doc about a round of flagyl which kills off most of thegut bacteria giving you a chance to repopulate with healthier bacteria leading to less gas.

Although at a month out things are always a little unpredictable and a lot of the things that go wrong in the first couple of months just go away.

Pete

I'm 99% sure this is something you're eating causing this problem.

First, look at your protein drink since that's a constant daily thing you're consuming:

• Artificial sweeteners can cause some people distress.
• If you're mixing with milk instead of water - try changing that. Plain milk puts my guts into a terrible state every time even thought I have no problems at all with other dairy.
• Some people are just sensitive to whey protein - even whey isolate (I know I am). Egg white protein tastes better and also lacks that horrible aftertaste.

Next, analyze the beverages you're drinking every day:

• Anything mixed in milk?
• Any artificial flavorings?
• Anything sweet - natural or artificial sweeteners?

Now with any food you're eating:

• Any fiberous fruits? Tomatoes? These can cause diarrhea
• Veggies - What are your staples? It took me a couple of years to realize that my daily staple of onions was causing me daily gas and horrible stinky poops.
• What kind of carbs? Rice and popcorn are guarantees of loose stool for me. Oatmeal in the evening means I will wake up between 5-6am to poop (nice and loose) when I usually don't go until around 8:30am. Popcorn may even get me up in the middle of the night to go when I usually don't have to at all. Pasta and especially whole wheat bread make me blow up like a balloon. Some mystery food on an Indian buffet made me look like Faruka Salt before she turned into a blueberry. Now that I'm 13 years out, I've noticed that I can tolerate some pastas better than others, but I still am wary of them overall. Even whole grains like quinoa may not give gas, but may give diarrhea because of the fiber.
• Fat - too much of a good thing at the early stage isn't always good.

I highly recommend a food journal to start pinning down your contributors. This is easiest if you go down to nearly nothing for a couple of days to what you know isn't causing gas. If you're convinced it's everything or just don't know where to start, go to water and protein drinks made with jus****er and see what happens. If you're still getting it - then switch protein drinks and try an egg based protein. For milk effects - they came within an hour feeling overfull, then gurgles, then bloating and diarrhea came a little later. For carbs, the gas comes around 3-5 hours later. Bloating can come on quickly though. Rice and oatmeal will expand more in your stomach and suddenly make you feel like you're gonna die even when you didn't feel full as you were eating it.

Once you are confident what you are currently eating is not causing problems, you introduce one more food and see how it affects you. You continue doing this daily until you figure out your contributors to the problem and you know what to avoid.

• Fiberous veggies can take 4-5 hours to affect me.
• Artificial sweeteners don't affect me, but others report just an hour or two for effects.

Thank you! Every day I say I'm going to do this and every day I get side tracked and eat whatever I have time to..(I know ..my fault) can't control it. Dr didn't do surgery on my brain, only my stomach. I need to learn discipline!