Frequent intestinal discomfort, gas, bowel urges, stomach an

* do you still have this problem hannah?

I posted my same issue on page 6, sorry if it's long guys. this is my first time opening up.

What is your diet like?
Increase your intake of fibre and grains and be strict with what you eat for at least a week to see if you notice any improvement.

As I suggested in a previous post, maybe try Slippery Elm (available from health food shops) as it is great for the digestive system.
https://ic.steadyhealth.com/slippery_elm_benefits.html

HiddenChic wrote:

do you still have this problem?

OMG! your story is pretty much my story mine started in eighth grade to and now im in my junior year! my stomach makes inner passing gas sounds, gurgling, and popping sounds. its so hard to be in class and im pretty sure everyone knows about it but they think im actually passing gas when i am not, which is the different parts of me and you. mines doesnt leak its just really loud.but to stop the sounds i have to pass the gas but when i go to the restroom all of sudden nothing will come out. and ive tried gas x and changing my diet but it didnt work. ive been doing research and the people with our situations went vegan and it worked for them! so thats what im gonna do and its gonna be hard, but anything to get rid of this so i can have a normal life i will do. its also a mental thing dont worry or be to paranoid to much, i do  all the times all it does is makes it worse. words of encouragement: i know its hard having this and being in hs it ruins your social life but just remember that you are a strong person and you will get through it , people being grossed out just can get over it everyone has gas! just keep your chin up and try a vegan diet, exercise, and probactics and it will help your situation out a lot and also drink water girl! hope you feel better and good luck you are not alone with your problems!:)

I'll try it. and vegan dang! i don't think i could be a vegetarian for starters ahah. maybe i just need more exercise and water. i'm hoping. let me know how it goes.

I take Digestive Advantage every morning (a probiotic, available at Walmart) and avoid red meat as much as possible. Seems to help somewhat. I definitely cannot do raw onions in anything, much dairy, or much garlic.

Hi Vicky, this message has meant so much to me it's made me cry! It's so amazing to have people be so caring, thank you so much. I have spoken to my mother again, she still doesn't quite understand eveeryythinng because I'm still to embarrassed to talk about everything, but she's starting to understand more and if I come home from college somewhat upset she asks me how my tummy was. Oh I did go back to college and I'm doing slightly less stressful subject choices so that I can get rid of some of the stress and anxiety, which has helped a bit. I find that the more I can talk to my friends during a class the better my tummy is because I am more relaxed, as soon as it goes quiet though I panic which is never good! I'm sorry to hear you have Chrohn's disease, I do actually have a friend that had that and she was always in pain but she didnt seem to experience what I got so I never felt comfortable in discussing our health issues together. I have done what you said and have kept a little food diary, I'm finding that milk, especially warm milk, pasta, sometimes bread and other foods really set my troubles off. So my mom now buys me soya milk. I just really hope that the grumbling rectum noises go at some point during my life, hopefully before university, but I don't know. Thank you for your kind message though, sorry for such a long message back!

Yes, I still very much have these stupid freaking troubles! What you have described sounds so distressing, I feel so sorry for you! We are definately in the same boat a far as our social lives go! Don't get me wrong, I realllllly wanna go out with the guy i like but NO WAY is it gonna happen. I just keep going through scenarios of me at his house or him at mine and we're just chilling out and then BAM my digestive system decides to make a noise. I'm not even religious but I now pray and plead, I say that whoever god is can take away all my money, my computer, ipod, clothes, whatever just pleassseee take away the noises i make. :'( Please let there be a doctor who can come up with a solution to our very similar problems, please!!!!

Thank you for both posts! I find breathing does often help a bit and the 'Degas' you describe sounds good, I'll be sure to look into that hopefully. Firstly my mom bought me some aloe vera stomach cleansing capsules so I'll see how they work out and then if they dont work, which they probably won't I'll ask my pharmacist about Degas. Thanks again

zippy1006 wrote:

Hannah wrote:

Hi, I'm a 16 year old girl and it's ruining my life too. I find i try to talk to my mom about it and i get embarrassed and she doesnt really understand because i dont like explaining it in detail because it sucks and its horrible. I just feel so sorry for myself and everyone on here. I no longer think of meeting up with my friends as a good thing, it's scary. I've had these suicide thoughts too. they're not serious yet but they will be. I dont wanna go back to college, all my ambitions are gone because of this stupid god awful thing that no doctor understands. The rectum noises are the worst, you dont know when the noise will happen and then it just does and its awful.

I'm starting to hate life, my mom said asked me the other day why i was so miserable all the time. I felt annoyed because i've tried to explain so many times but cant quite and then she said 'you used to be such a happy, sweet girl'. it broke me. Oh and the guy i like likes me back and has asked me out but as much as i wanna go out with him i dont want to because of these noises that my stupid body makes. I'm not even unhealthy! i eat good meals, fruit, vegetables etc.

Not to sound weird but i wanna meet up with all of you and cry this out to people that understand.

nononooo Hannah, I'm a girl and i understand completely. i was taking a math test, and i had so much freaking gas. and i was like, "well, terrific" that was freshman year in high school. then in sophomore year i was completely bogged with work. i slept at 3 am for goodness sakes! so like, then i had this pumpkin pie you know? totally got gassy from it. so gassy that it lasted for three days. i think it was food poisoning, but who knows. but all my classes were lectures. lectures. in a quiet room. i couldn't believe this was happening to me, i felt so guilty and lonely and sad and disgusted at myself and kept asking, "Why me?" And the doctors won't help with anything. I have researched and researched but no one has ever said their doctor healed them. But I have dealt with this for a year. And i also had suicide thought, but these thoughts were from stress, embarassment and saddness that I was so upset with my bodily functions more than my grades. And this was huge. Grades were my life. So ever since november I talked with my mentor. She completely understood. And i'm so sorry that you feel like you don't have someone like that. But okay, i have these advices that will definitely help you. But you need to keep in mind that your body likes a schedule. It likes to be on time and know what is going to happen-- it's normal, it wants what is best/healthy for you.

1. Activia. The twelve day thing. Not for me. I had to eat for like... 3 weeks. Then I started becoming regular. I have bowel movements every morning. Sometimes twice, but that's fine and normal.
2. If you don't want yogurt, you can go to a near by organic store that has these pills that help with digestion and make you regular. I'm not sure what they are called, but my mentor used them because everything she was eating was making her gassy. They are pills that are the ingredients in yogurt ( these are the stuff that help with digestion).
3. Milk before night. I tried this for about a week, and it is a gaurentee that i go to the restroom straight in the morning. It usually takes me ten minutes, and then i'm like, okay! pit stop.
4. Coffee. A lot of people drink this in the morning in order to poop. People do this. It's not just me. It's not just you. NO ONE LIKES TO BE GASSY. ;) Hannah, i'm like going on 17 and i'm so glad i'm now understanding that sh*t like this happens. I felt so gross, but everyone poops. Like that shirt on threadless. Some people go 3X a day or every three days.
5. Schedule. Schedule. Schedule. I wake up at 6:30 and go to the bathroom after drinking a cup of water to kick my digestive system into action. with water everything starts moving in your bowels. But, if you're beginning, like me (it hasn't been a year yet) i eat before i go to the restroom. Something heavy is going into my intestines so there's a push. I do this every morning. I had SAT classes and needless to say, if there was a sound because someone was holding gas, IT WASN'T ME. yay.

Dear Hannah, please don't be so down. don't feel so paranoid that a sound will come. trust me, i know it's embarassing. you know people in your classes. and they know you. you're not the only one. you aren't! jeezus, my friends don't poop for a week. crazy. but if you do have gas, don't panic. I realized that i have gas from eating too much fruit. I am also unable to eat selective dairy products (weird) but i have these pills so i don't get gassy/etc.. I LOVE YOU. MEET WITH YOUR FRIENDS. TELL THEM YOUR STORY. I TOLD MY FRIENDS > realized they really don't care and turn out more comfortable with you. my friend and i laugh at it. so funny. her heart warming text that remains in my heart is, "BWAHAHA what is friendship without bowels!!!"
we're still friends.

Oh my gosh Zippy! Thank you so much! The support you and others have given has been overwhelming! I'm sorry to hear you've been experiencing the same though, kinda sucks huh? Omg, yes, same aww exactly the same! The suicide thoughts are completely down to the embarrassment! I used to sit in class like 'I dont even care about the work, I'll get it done another time, but i can not make any more disgusting noises!' I'm so sorry you've had these thoughts too, they're depressing, I'm somewhat relieved to know there's someone out there experiencing the same though. :/ as awful as that sounds, I wouldnt wish what we have upon anyone but to be on your own with it is so incredibly lonely.

Your schedule is so helpful! I very much believe in routine.I get up at 6 every morning and I start off with a cup of tea (I love tea - my mom's british!) with little milk. This seems to get my tummy going in the morning!

Aww, Thank you so much! i feel so much better with all these lovely messages! I will hopefully one day tell my friends, I do keep going to tell them and then chicken out, but someday I will have to and I know they will be supportive! That text your friend sent you is amazing! haha! I hope my friends will just not laugh at it but laugh about it with me, like yours did, to make me feel like it doesnt matter, that its natural, and that i dont need to worry! Thank you again! I really hope the problem vanishes for both of us and everyone else on this site :)

These posts from all you other guys and girls are really upsetting me too! Eventhough I have these same thoughts of suicide, reading them coming from someone else makes me realise how sad it really is! Whatever you do please do not do anything! I don't know what to suggest to make your problem better because believe me, if I knew, I would be off out with my friends at the movie theatre! But the main thing that really kicks off the noises with me is the fear of it happening as you said, and controlling anxiety is a mental thing and how the hell do we overcome that? I dont wanna be on drugs for the rest of my life! But please dont drop out of college, what I'd suggest is just choosing something less stressfull to do, something which you can chat in class in and move about, not long lectures in silence. I really want us all to beat this. It's so not fair, it's ruining our lives. I just hope that you are fortunate enough to have some sort of family, whether it's just a mother a father, sister or auntie that you love enough and who loves you enough to make you want to fight it and stay alive and hopefully someone you can discuss the problem with a little bit, just enough for them to know you have issues with horrible digestion noises or whatever they are and that its making life miserable.

I just replied to you but it's not clear that i have because i didnt quote your message, but please stay strong and dont give up xx

It's bad wheat. Try cutting out wheat,especially white flour, very hard! But all same symptoms as posted here, cured.

I say bad wheat as certain organic, whole wheat has no effect, but store bought white bread is the worst. Theory is pesticides or GM. May also be a reaction in my bowels from something I picked up abroad with certain wheat.

I ve read that about white flour, and my downfall is cakes and biscuits which are sugary too.

I looked this site up this morning, as once again dealing with bad gurgly wind, which makes me worried and anxious, and I m not alone in all that obviously, or the butt noises either!!.  I will look at my diet again, although for me I m pretty sure that my mind/gut connection cos of my anxiety is very strong.  I m getting to the point, where my life is so limited, and I feel so bad about myself, and like others here think how can I go on?   I do though argue back with myself as a counterbalance that I have one life, and one windy unpredictable gut, that if I don t seem to be able to change it, then I have to change the way I think about it...  (not that easy to do though)

I know there is that comment that people on their deathbed are supposed to never say that 'I wished I  d spent more time at the office',  and I wonder if I m not careful that I ll end up thinking, hopefully when I m old and grey,   'its was only wind,  a lot of it, but just wind, and look at all I missed out on, does it seem so important now?!'.     Some Undertaker  may well get a laugh when I do snuff it, as we all expel wind apparently when we leave this mortal coil, and well if its anything in life!!!...

I know I m joking about this, but I have really struggled with it, I worry I ll end up giving up my job, find it hard to date men, and dont commit to socialising much,  I feel that life for me is on the periphery...  I m 47,  and my life is passing me by, and at the end of the day, the wind (perhaps I can help a bit, although if I gulp air cos of anxiety that its a bit of a vicious circle at times),  is something I may have to get my head round.  I sometimes wish I had the bottle to just come right out with it in situations, although then people would say just go outside or to the loo if you have wind, ummm, do they not realise at times that could be for a good couple of hours on and off!!!

I realise haven t said much constructive, and I m going to read over the other pages again for all the advice, but its been good to air that, (no pun intended), and to realise how many other people are worrying and suffering, especially young people at school.  I m a teacher, so i can totally understand how sitting in lessons for students can be tough,  at least I get to move around, although the thought of being ridiculed by lots of pupils if Miss farted is a concern, although again, it can only bother me if I let it...

At the end of the day, its a natural bodily function that everyone does, we may do it more, and more noisily than others, but that is how our bodies work.    I dont check how my heart beats all the time, or how my tongue produces saliva, etc, and really I have to accept that whilst I can try and change some stuff with my gut as I said earlier,  somethings I may just have to live with..  What a shame the value judgement placed on flatulence, wasn t one of positivity, admiration and respect,  wow, wouldnt we be special then??  They are just that though, cultural value judgements, and dont they cause so much grief and anxiety?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faith23,

 

Give all sorts of things a try...

- Diet

- Relaxation, meditation and yoga techniques

- Essential oils

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- Exercise

 

I have personally tried real licorice root tea, and slippery elm...I think the slippery elm helps because I drink it when I have symptoms and they seem to reduce/disappear.

 

Don't just do it for a few days, give it a go for at least a month, because you may as well try!

 

A quick question, is there something physical that you might be doing that causes this?

I find that if I lay with my stomach on the floor, and might be moving around because I'm playing with the kids, I end up gassy...I can't really explain why, but it happens...

Get tested for diverticular disease. Small pouches in the colon may be inflamed. 5 days on antibiotics might knock it out all together MK