Intestinal Gas Guide

Nitroglycerin and nitrate medications for your heart

Including Nitroquick, Nitrostat, isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil), Nitroglycerin skin patches, and other nitrates

Blood pressure or heart medicines in the "calcium channel blocker" family

This family includes diltiazem (Cardizem, Tiazac), nifedipine (Procardia, Adalat), amlodipine (Norvasc), felodipine (Plendil), verapamil (Calan), and others.

Muscle relaxants

These include cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril), carisoprodol (Soma), diazepam (Valium), tizanidine (Zanaflex), methocarbamol (Robaxin), quinine sulfate, and others.

Medicines for an overactive bladder

These include oxybutynin (Ditropan), tolterodine (Detrol), and others.

Asthma inhalers or pills

Especially albuterol (Ventolin, Proventil), pirbuterol (Maxair), salmeterol (Serevent, Advair), metaproterenol (Alupent, Metaprel), formoterol (Foradil), ipatropium (Atrovent), and theophylline (Theo-Dur).

Anxiety medications

Especially diazepam (Valium), lorazepam (Ativan), temazepam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), and other "benzodiazepines."

Migraine medications

Including propranolol (Inderal), amitriptyline (Elavil), dihydroergotamine (DHE, Migranal), Cafergot, sumatriptan (Imitrex), rizatriptan (Maxalt), almotriptan (Axert), naratriptan (Amerge), zolmitriptan (Zomig), and others

Diet pills that contain caffeine

Anti-diarrhea medicines

Examples are loperamide (Imodium) and diphenoxylate with atropine (Lomotil).

I take one or more of these medications.

I do not take any of these medicines.