Farts... No really

So i'm almost 2 years post-op. No I've always had gas but lately its been really bad and smells. The wife has been complaining alot about it lately.. Does this happen to anyone else, and if so what do you use? Thought about bean-o... not sure if we can take it.

I take one of the GasX chewable tablets every morning, and it keeps it pretty reasonably controlled.  Without it - whew!  I recently switched to the Wal-Mart generic equivalent.  Seems to work just as well, but the taste/texture is far less appealing.  Oh well...  it works!

My wife had rny surgery almost 10 years ago and her gas gets really bad when she eats alot of fast food and junk food. Try watching your diet and see if that helps you out.

Elimination diet is the best way to control gas with a surgery that causes malabsorbtion. You can start off with just meat and slowly add back foods (keeping a food journal) to track which foods give you the worst gas.

Probiotics can help. People swear by Garden for Life (it's expensive...and you should start off with 1 pill every other day and build up to their recommended dosage) but again people say it works.

You can try getting a Rx for flagyl from your doctor. This will knock down bad bacteria and make you "normal", but the effects can be short lived if you don't do the above 2 steps. (on a side note, i never found probiotics to be particuarly helpful, they've always made me gassy....but again everyone is different, you have to see what works for you.)

Scott

I'm only 8 months post-op, so I'm still learning about my reactions to various foods.  I learned early on that I seemed to be increasingly lactose intolerant, so now I avoid milk and milk products whenever I can. 
I started mixing my morning protein shakes with soy milk and went several months without a significant gas production episode.
Certain vegetables may induce moderate gas production for me, among them broccoli and Brussels sprouts.  But I really like both of those veggies so I try to just "step out of the room" when I have the chance.
In the past month or so, my stools started getting really dense and somewhat difficult to pass, so I started eating a half dozen prunes each morning.  They've helped the stool situation, but man do they ramp up the methane!  I'm looking for something else right now.

ProBiotics have worked for me..I buy mine at CostCo.
Just sayin'.