Best meds for trapped gas hysterectomy

[creamcheeseandlox]

I am due to have a full abdominal hysterectomy on Tuesday. I read that they pump you full of air and thus is very painful in the days afterwards as it disappears. What's the best medicine that helps with this please. Deflatine? Etc.

Tia.

Definitely just moving around, you have to wait for it to go really
saying that I was told the same about my lap and I was bloated but no pain with it in my shoulders like I was told

I’ve had a full hysterectomy and removal of a large tumour. The best thing I did was drink loads of water and walk up and down the ward as many times as I could. They let me out after two days, as I did so well.

I used deflatine, but it was still painful I'm afraid. Make sure they discharge you with good painkillers!

I had windeeze after mine and I was also prescribed lactulose as you shouldn’t strain and was taking co codamol (also prescribed)

Peppermint tea/water. Or suck polos. It doesn’t get rid of it completely but it does ease it. Good luck!

if it’s laparoscopic they do let as much of the gas (carbon dioxide, not air) out at the end as possible - there may be small pockets left and that gets absorbed into the blood and largely removed (by exhaling it) over a few days. It can cause shoulder pain though for a few days (not everyone gets it though) which doesn’t respond that well to painkillers but does eventually go (positioning yourself ‘bum up’ may shift the gas away from the diaphragm and help a bit). The gut pain that lots of people get is more multifactorial - there may be a small amount of carbon dioxide that absorbed into the bowels, but also guts just don’t like being handled and interfered with. Time heals, but in the meantime avoiding constipation helps, staying mobile, using chewing gum and peppermint may help.

if it’s an open hysterectomy then there won’t be any carbon dioxide to shift but the guts still don’t like being handled so the same things may help.

You can get peppermint capsules. They were a god send after my c sections.

Morphine pump. Blissful.

I used peppermint tea and love heart sweets. The gas was the worst pains in my shoulder

Windeze, wind settlers or delfatine, they all contain the same ingredient simeticone that disperses the trapped wind and helps release it.