How long to digest.....

[allraindrops]

I had terrible gas pains tonight at 9:15 pm....I'm trying to figure out if they were from my lunch at 2 pm, my snack at 4:30 pm or from my dinner at around 8:45 pm....how long does it take us to digest food enough to get gas pains from it? I DEFINITELY want to avoid whatever it was that was making me in such pain!

[Joanne]

I usually will ache about 1-2 hours after eating something that doesn't agree with me. My bet is on your dinner. What did you have?

[Deleted]

For me it varies. If it's a solid food (think something like bread) it can be several hours, like 4-6. If it's a liquid like juice or The Evil Huckleberry Milkshake and its equally evil minions the fast food shakes, it's 30-60 minutes. Some other offenders fall in between those two extremes.

I'd suggest looking at the fastest-absorbing carbs first and going backwards from there.

[RedSkittles]

It really varies. Probably not lunch, but could have definitely been the snack or the dinner. If you post what you ate, I can try to find out what it was based on what others have complained about having issues with.

[Sandra C.]

My Eggs Benedict from breakfast are suspect for a gas attack at 7 pm. Relentless !!!! happened 2 days in a row on our trip.

[msbatt]

Veggies---raw ones, anyway---have a very short transit time for me. Meats and cheeses take about as long as they did pre-op.

Sometimes tomatoes scare me. (*grin*---until I remember I ate them.)

[allraindrops]

For a snack I had about a cup and a half of popcorn covered in butter (I've tried popcorn before and it hasn't hurt my belly....) and for dinner I had a chicken breast stuffed with feta and spinach, but didn't eat any of the feta/spinach mixture and maybe only ate one ounce of the chicken. Maybe there was something carby about the sauce they marinated the chicken breast in?

[dkramer]

Popcorn doesn't agree with me for some reason. I see a lot of people eat it without any issues but it gives me stomach pains within about 30-60 mins.

Dawn