I have a lot of gas but its more belching . It gets catch and causes some of the worst pains . I take a gas -x for it ,it helps . I am not sure what all it effects I am new to this also . I also have other issues going so that doesn't help me figure out what symptoms it causes I come in here and read up a lot it helps . I wish you the best of luck figuring things out .

It is very confusing? I too have other issues and don't know which one is which. Would love to be healthy again

I have the same issue...lots of gas...farting. For me changing my diet has helped tremendously with the diarrhea. The color is still weird...but at least it's not loose. I'm new to this...and it sucks. I'm trying had to stay positive...but I keep wishing I was healthy again. I'm not taking enzymes yet. I feel like all I do is plan meals that free of all the offenders..and it's not easy..but if I don't follow the strict diet, all hell breaks loose.

I know the feeling about planning meals so you don't get a cranky panky. Very frustrating. I seem to be taking more and more foods out of my diet. I have avoided fatty foods, spicy foods, citrus foods, alcohol, pork, lactose (intolant) anyway. Now I have cut tea and coffee out. I know drink ginger/ camolile / and dandelion tea. The dandelion has been wonderful highly recommend. I get scared to any medications, and have a terrible time if I need to take an antiobiotic. I find when I feel good it's fantastic. But that can change so quickly with a wrong food. Nausea / gas / pain - hate those times.

Same here..I feel like my diet is so limited now...it just adds to the stress...like you I have cut out fatty food, I'm lactose intolerant too...although I can eat a litte frozen yogurt..and I love that..it's my one guilty pleasure!! I had completely cut out spicy food...but I've been able to add back in a little salsa and that's nice too!! Definitely no alcohol..and that's been hard....more because I enjoyed a social drink..and I feel like I'm just boring now..but the pain was unbearable when I would have a drink...that's improved since stopping. The other thing I find difficult is literally making sure I don't take one extra bite of food...i.e., any feeling of eating a bite or too more than I should and I start getting the pain in my lower ribs...it's so weird. I feel like no one understands what I'm going through. It's really put me in a nasty depression. I just don't know what's going to happen next. Very sad!!

I had acute necrotizing pancreatitis. I'm on a low fat diet for the rest of my life. I drink non-fat dairy. Coffee does seem to make me belch, but my diet is so limited I'm not willing to give it up. I'm also on high doses of coumadin because I'm still facing surgery, so that limits my ability to eat a lot of stuff that I would normally eat on a low fat diet. And there's the diabetes, too, so another limiting factor. That said, I can usually tell when I've eaten too much fat, and trust me, it's not a lot when it happens because I'm pretty careful. I made the mistake of eating sugar free syrup made with alcohol sugars and that made me completely miserable for the day. I spent four months in the hospital without food or drink, so getting to eat at all is still good enough. Check the content of any sugar substitutes, limit your fat and cut out alcohol and carbonation is the best advice I can give.