Dear OH family, I need help!

before I go running into the ER crying like a Banshee, please give me help on how to get rid of an air bubble left over from the gas they put into you from surgery. It is right between my ribs and my lungs on the right side and it makes it painful to take a deep breath in. Also it gets worse when I try to lay down so I am tired as all get out right now but cant' sleep due to this annoying sharp pain in my side. I took a gas x strip and i burped...the sharp pain in my side laughed at me as I burped, reminding me that gas x only works on your stomach and intestines, not outside of these organs. :( 

I walk 30 min every day and that does not seem to relieve me of this gas bubble and I took the NORCO pain meds they gave me, it knocked me out and I cried like a baby when I woke up the next day and found it was still there, I was only too drugged to feel it. So please my OH family, I need help, what else can I do??

 

Hey, I'm right there with you!  I don't know what the ER will do but give you pain meds.  Walking is what I was told to do.  I know they suck, My surgery was 18 hours ago and they REALLY irritate you!!!

Hey, I'm right there with you!  I don't know what the ER will do but give you pain meds.  Walking is what I was told to do.  I know they suck, My surgery was 18 hours ago and they REALLY irritate you!!!

I'm not sure if this will help, I drank peppermint tea whilst in hospital and that got rid of my sharp shoulder pain which I was told was gas.  Sorry you are in pain :(

I'm so sorry you feel so bad! :(  Remember this ... the trapped air is intraperitoneal.  It's not IN your gut.  It's around your organs.  It's a medical gas that's pumped into your belly for the surgery so the surgeon has room to move around and not bump into your organs during the surgery.  It has to dissipate on its own and Gas-X will do nothing for it (though you likely have some intestinal gas as well and it will help with that).  

The gas bubbles need to break up into smaller and smaller bubbles.   I had my mom pat me on the back like a baby. :)  Oddly, it helped a lot!  

Good luck!

Ok, I will try anything at this point, I am going walking during lunch for an hour at the gym and I am going to have my daughter pat me on the back tonight when I get home with the hopes that this will do something for me. Thank you so much.

Yes what they said is pretty accurate. I am not sure the ER would be able to do anything for you. Keep moving to help work it out.

I had that 10 days post op. Really very painful and scary, and I am a nurse. I used a heating pad. zzzzzhot and constant or several days. and walk. Hope you get relief.

I would call your surgeon though, just to be sure.

I'm not sure how far out you are but for me at two weeks when I still had the pain I thought was gas pain, it turned out to be a leak. If it dosen't go away I would give your center a call. (IMHO)