This is VERY embarrassing but...

Hi everyone, I know that this is a delicate subject and a very embarrassing one --but I REALLY need help. I have gas--the stinkiest gas in the world (at least that's how I feel). I have tried gas -X, beano, etc., but I still have gas and what is worse it SMELLS. I have heard that ther is an internal deoderizor does anyone know the Name of the product??? do I need a prescription from my Physician?? Please help--the situation is serious--my hubby doesn't even want to sleep in the same room because of the offensive odor! and I don't blame him!--I don't want to be in the room with me either Other than the odor--I am doing so well. But I really need help with this Thanks, Be Blessed, Marian S.C. 242.4/173/goal 125-130

Marian, I am sorry I can not help with this but I just wanted to let you know that I am thinking of you and I sure hope this works out. I would call your surgeon and talk to him/her to see if there is anything that you can do about this and why this is happening. Maybe you are fighting a flu of sorts and it just needs time to work its way out. ~Hugs~ Take care Debra P

this sucks but you might your S.O.L. My GF had surgery 5 years ago and i'v learned its part of life. i'm getting my surgery in April so i'm going to have to buy alot of candles.

Marian, GAS, I've noticed I only get it if I eat certain things like broccoli and chew gum, and when I get it it's bad, offending, since I enjoy these things I try and eat/chew them when I'm going to be alone for a while as to not offend. I did hear prior to surgery that this might be an issue, the spring is around the corner, just open up the windows (lol). Pat

I have the same problem, Marian. Sunday in church I was having awful pains, and I'd make these funny faces from holding it in, and I know people were wondering what was wrong with me-lol. My gas is being caused by Benefiber,which I am taking for constipation. The benefiber isn't even really working well. :: So for now, I take Gas X or Maalox, whichever I feel like buying. Gas X is a higher dosage and works better for me so I don't have to take as much. Kristine

Unfortunately, I don't have much help for the cause... I know there are some things out there, but I've not tried any of them.. What I *do* do, is light a match (one of the strike on box type); it seems to work for my wife (actually a lot of times, SHE lights the match).. Bad ones get two matches.. Just like with onions or other odors, it does help; not sure how, but it does. Good luck.. ...N

I thought "lighting a match" was some sort of stupid joke when someone passes a smelly. I didnt know it actually did something! That is too funny. What does it actually do? Just smell like the match not the smelly anymore? I have to remember that one next time my husband lets a bad one go. Tavia

Tavia - LOL; Well I got curious myself; I know it seems to work, but never was sure of the science behind it.. So I started searching - There were a lot of sites that claim it results in an "explosion".. (grin, most were jokes). There were a number of sites that cite the dangers of putting the flame too close to the "source" of the gas, thus igniting it, and even a few videos of said ignition (grin). There was LOTS of colloquial "evidence"/suggestions for it... BUT... The most "scientific one" I found in about 20 mins of looking is the following : (*link given without permission from owner) http://www.matchcovers.com/kitchen.htm ------------------- Kitchen Matches Confirmed As Deodorants by Bill Retskin Something caught my eye a few months ago that brought back several childhood memories. As a child, I frequently watched my mother light a blue tip Ohio and let it flame into the air. She never lit anything with it, she let it burn for a moment and then blew it out. Do you remember those television commercials of the mid-1970s that showed a woman entering a neighbor's house and immediately wrinkling up her nose and sniffing the air. "House-a-tosis," said the deep voiced background announcer...and House-a-tosis it was. The advertised products rid your house of unpleasant odors, performed magic from an aerosol can, and came in a variety of pleasant outdoor fragrances. Long before aerosol deodorants were marketed down our television throats, there was the simple kitchen match. For years, housewives proclaimed that the surest way to overcome unpleasant household odors was to burn several kitchen matches in the room, blowing them out and allowing the smoke to defuse into the air. Homemakers "just knew" that the burning chemicals from the common kitchen match made a good deodorant. This inexpensive remedy remained the province of undocumented kitchen magic for many years. Finally, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, scientists at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Armour Research Foundation Laboratories decided to take a scientific look at this phenomenon. They performed their work on behalf of The Diamond Match Company. After exhaustive study, the chemists made their findings public. The American homemaker was right. Common kitchen matches really did mask unpleasant smells, ranging from sickening sweet through repugnantly gagging to unspeakably awful. Dr. William L. Kubie, an Armour research biochemist who worked on the project for Diamond Match, used an impartial group of eight men and two women. This unbiased jury was employed as "sniffers." First, they were asked to smell the unadulterated odor. Then, the odor after it was affected by the burning kitchen matches. Kubie pulled out all the stops. During one of his experiments, he used a commonly known bad odor compound called tertiary-butyl mercaptan or "skunk odor." When left in a room overnight, even a closed bottle of this extremely noxious chemical could permeate every nook and cranny of the room and adjacent hallways in a small house. Kubie lit just six kitchen matches, and the jury reported that odor was dramatically masked for more than five minutes. Kubie pointed out that there are four mechanisms by which the sense of smell can be prevented from detecting any odor. They are masking, anesthesia, neutralization, and fatigue. Masking wipes out one odor by superimposing another odor. Anesthesia is the total blocking of our sense of smell toward any odor. Neutralization combines two odors that may result in a sense of less odor stimulation than from either odor alone. Fatigue is the fading of the intensity with which the odor can be detected, although the strength of the odor might remain the same. It is the masking effect that made the common kitchen "strike-anywhere" matches so popular as a deodorant. I am sure that Dr. Kubie used only Diamond matches, as he conducted the study for Diamond Match. Tests by this author, although performed with more common household odors than "skunk odor," have indicated that kitchen matches from other match companies (The Ohio Match Co. and the Eddy Match Co. of Canada) work equally as well. If you wish to try this at home, be sure to use full size kitchen matches. Although book and box matches work with some odors, the amount of deodorant effect is greater with the common kitchen match.

Marian, I am well acquainted with your problem. I use to have this when my Crohns disease was active. Talk about clearing out a room!!!!! A company called Parthenon makes a product called Devrom Chewable Tablets. Here is the link: http://www.continentostomystore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PARDEVROM&Category_Code=PAR Hope it can help. Sandra

I am afraid to light a match--I might cause an explosion--you know a STINK BOMB!!! Marian S.C.