No longer will my stomach be like a balloon (Setlers Wind-Eze)

Member Name: claireislafrazer

Product:	Setlers Wind-Eze
Date:	26/10/08 (553 review reads)
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Advantages: Effective treatment for trapped wind

Disadvantages: None

Occasionally I suffer from very painful trapped wind. Its hard to know how or why it occurs or I would try and take measures to prevent it. Usually I notice it when I change position and I get a shooting sharp pain in my lower stomach and into my groin. It varies in intensity but sometimes it is very difficult to move around with the pain, and I if you try to strain to try and pass the wind it becomes so much more painful. If it becomes very painful it is even difficult to pass water no matter how much you need to. Ive had to press my stomach to be able to urinate without as otherwise the pain was unbearable, thats only happened once thankfully. I do apologise if that was too much information.

It is difficult to know what to do to try and help it, I have tried a lot of things like peppermint tea, this is ok sometimes but better for helping with wind that is higher up the digestive system. Sometimes all you can do is wait and hope it disperses natually.

I remember one particularly bad time just before I discovered this product. I was in the restuarant of the supposedly best hotel in town having lunch and they took so long to bring it and when it did finally come it was so little food that I had really bad indigestion all day afterwards.

The thing was though this indigestion didnt go. Every subseqent meal I ate gave me more indigestion, and my stomach became bigger and bigger so much so that I couldnt sit down to eat as i couldnt bend forward. I would wake up the next day still with the indigestion of the day before. I was supposed to be going on holiday the next week and couldnt go like this!

Luckily I went to the chemist and got windeze. I really hadnt heard of it before but the pharmasist was very helpful and gave me the correct product. I had so much trapped wind that it took a couple of days and a whole packet of windeze to get rid of all the trapped wind. I felt that each tablet was making a significant different to how uncomfortable I was feeling and was reducing the pain and size of my stomach. I should point out that when taking these tablets I did not experience any increased flatulence. The wind disappeared somehow but honestly I dont know how it did! The important thing is that they worked.

Every capsule of windeze contains 125mg of simeticone, (other products may call it activated dimeticone, it is basically the same thing). Simeticone is an anti foaming agent, it makes all the small bubbles of trapped gas in the digestive system form into a larger bubble so it can be expelled.

The packet I have is white with "wind-eze" in red on the front, the back of the packet is blue with advice on how many to take and some warnings for who shouldnt use them, these are then expanded on in the enclosed leaflet.

In my packet there are 20 capsules, arranged into 2 blister packs of 10, the 10 are arranged in two patterns of 5 like how they look on a dice. The tablet is actually a oval shaped white gel capsule which looks like a tiny rugby ball. They are 1cm wide and therefore easy to swallow with water.

The doseage is 3-4 capsules a day after meals and before bedtime until the symptoms ease. As I said it took a couple of days for that large amount of trapped wind to go completely but more recently when I have felt that lower abdominal pain due to the wind I have taken a capsule straight away and have not needed another one.

On the leaflet it says that simeticone is safe to take when pregnant or breast feeding as it doesnt get absorbed into the bloodstream. Also it says not to exceed the dosage as the capsules contain glycerol which is harmful if you take too many.

Having had a look around the net it seems a pack of 20 will cost from 3-4 pounds. A small price to pay for a whole lot of relief.

Summary: Another essential medicine