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gas issues post liver transplant

Transplants | Last Active: Aug 27, 2022 | Replies (30)

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@yahushua40

Good Morning. I received my new liver on April 08 of 2017. And I am starting to experience a whole lot of gas.

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Welcome to Connect @yahushua40 and a late congratulations on your liver's 2nd anniversary.

The thought occurred to me when I read your post that I should mention, that I finally did very definitely identify lactose as the culprit that was causing me gas and soft stools. I mentioned that possibility in a post to @smithjim in February 2019, but at that point I was still not certain. I am now, and have found very little help from Lactaid, actually no help from that. I do get some help from Digestive Advantage, Lactose Defense formula if I keep my lactose ingestion to a minimum. If something says there is a trace of lactose (sugar) then if you eat much of it those traces add up. My problem did not start immediately after being on immunosuppressants. It was probably a couple of years before it became a problem.
Try to keep track if when you eat foods with lactose your problems are worse. If I eat something with lactose it can take two or three days for it to resolve even though I am not eating more foods that contain lactose.
Lactose is in the whey so aged cheeses are very low in it, a trace amount if any. I can eat cheddars and swiss cheeses with no problem. I can also eat cheesy crackers like Cheezits and Goldfish, which some people with lactose intolerance cannot.
JK

@yahushua40, Welcome to Connect. I see that you have recently had your 3 year transplant anniversary. Congratulations!

I want to share a link to the Mayo Clinic Patient health Care & Information: Intestional Gas
It says that, "Excess lower intestinal gas can be caused by eating too much of certain foods, by the inability to fully digest certain foods or by a disruption in the bacteria normally found in the colon." Information included is: Foods that cause excess gas, and Digestive disorgers that cause excess gas.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/intestinal-gas/basics/definition/sym-20050922

Yahushua, I am wondering if you recently changed your diet? or has there been a change in medications?