I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: tiredandthirsty on April 10, 2012, 12:41:17 PM
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Hi all,
i have a rather embarrassing question for the learned and experienced folks in here. I get really gassy sometimes after the treatment. i mean it HURTS! i do eat lunch before i go to the clinic. so it's not like i am on empty stomach. after a LOT of involuntary (sort of) air release from the front orifice as well as the back, it finally starts to feel normal. after quite a while. and i am miserable until this happens.
anyone else have this issue? anything i can do? sorry if this is tmi. but it is the truth after all :-)
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I have been doing dialysis for 4 years and, between the meds and treatment, have bad gas. Quick trip to the restroom before leaving the center gets me home okay. :2thumbsup;
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What form of dialysis are you doing?
I know when I get out of the chair after 3 and 3/4 of an hour, I am pretty gassy. I burp immediately when my chair comes forward. And, afterwards, I toot a lot. It's like all that gas is pent up in me when I'm reclined in that stupid chair. Once I stand, oh boy, I have to be careful. It's embarrassing! :sir ken;
I think its also medication. Lots of different kinds of meds can make you gassy. Renagel and my high blood pressure med causes a lot of gas.
Check your meds.....you could be on some meds that might make you gassy.
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hi thanks for the prompt responses.
i am on in centre hemo. week and a half old now. so pretty new to dialysis.
i am pretty much on the same meds as i have been for most of my life. except for phos lo, which i started taking a while before i started d. before dialysis, i was not having this issue. but it has cropped up now. do you lot think eating something mid way might help? i don't do any snacking or anything while on the machine. i don't even feel like taking a sip of water they keep it so cold in there.
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I am on phos binders as well, I need to use Doucosate to help 'unbind' me from the binder.
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I snack half way through my treatment and it doesn't make a difference at all.
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hmm..seems like this "airy" gift is inevitable. bloody heclll.
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I know :(
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Me, I fart like a clydesdale!
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My wife calls me stinkbug.
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You guys crack me up pun intended! :rofl; :sir ken;
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HAH...this thread is taking an entertaining direction. ;D
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I agree.
I love a good laugh :rofl; :rofl; God knows today I sure needed one! ;D
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i am on the machine right now and i have already let off a few good ones. hopefully no one has heard anything. it helps that i am kept in a separate room by myself. but its a double edged sword because if it is a stinker, the bloody thing lingers forever....
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:rofl; :rofl; :rofl; You kill me. I'm laughin' my :sir ken; off here. I'm in a private room when I'm on D too. Thank God. That's just ONE of the reasons why I chose to be in a private room so that I don't have to worry about er hum 'others' hearing my gassiness. :secret;
I love that my room has a toilet station too. When I need to pee, they just lower my pump speed on the machine and push my machine over so that I can get up and use the facilities :rofl;
I'm the only one in my unit that stays attached to the machine when using the toilet!
I wouldn't trade my room for anything!!!! ;D I may be isolated from others but at least I don't have to worry about people hearing my bodily noises! :rofl;
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I don't have the issue of farts on PD, but I certainly do belch a lot! I guess I'm fortunate that all my gas seems to be in the upper end of the GI tract :rofl;
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Cordelia: toilet station in the room!!! you are lucky. i have no such thing in this glass room i am kept in. i am quarantined in this room. i even get the older tv. everyone outside has a newer, bigger tv whereas i get stuck with a box. i should be grateful that it works.
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LOL on the belching Joe. I'm covering my mouth hiding a burp when my chair comes up from the reclining position. I often wonder if a lot of the gas is from being reclined in the dialysis chair :rofl;
LMAO! TAT, hehehe yes, I'm super lucky I have a toilet in my room. ;D Luckily too, I've only been kicked out once when someone came back from a trip away from the unit and had to be quaranteened, they kicked me out for two days. I hated not being in my room. They put me in another room with a bed and I must admit, I cannot lie down for dialysis. I have to sit, its too hard on my back if I'm lying down for my treatment. Drove me nuts! LOL