Trapped wind

[buggins55]

Has anyone else had trapped wind that moves around and comes and goes with slight pain for a week (Ihad an IBS flare up in the middle) symptoms are always changing and whenever they carry on for a while like this I start getting anxiety

[BabblingBrooks]

Yes I have had something similar.

[buggins55 in reply to BabblingBrooks]

thanks for your reply I always worry when the symptoms evolve (again) after years of this you think I'd know it inside and out but no there's always something else to panic about!

[LFHell]

Do you avoid processed food? Think can do that for me..

[buggins55 in reply to LFHell]

yes I cook from scratch with supplies from local farms, (although i'm no saint and do have the occasional "treat") I agree processed food is awful

[Corrie-blue]

Hi just read your message I have had the same as you,the pain moves to different places in my stomach,I am sick going to the doctor about all this pain,I sit with the hot water bottle nearly every night,IBS is taking over my life

[buggins55 in reply to Corrie-blue]

Oh thanks for replying I always go into a tailspin whenever this flares up, its been ten days of up and down this time with dull aching (I do the hot water bottle thing too) I've been having gut spasms today , will probably have to cancel a coffee with a friend tomorrow (I can never make plans) I feel panicky and anxious am also getting the usual headache that comes along with it as well thoroughly fed up reluctant to say I have a chronic illness but it really is !!

[Corrie-blue in reply to buggins55]

I know exactly what you are going through,I have had to cancel thongs as well,between anxiety and IBS,I sometimes want to give up x

[Meleber]

I have been prescribed the drug Simalviane® for my functional bloating (trapped wind) by a gastroenterologist working at the University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium. Does help to alleviate the symptoms caused by trapped wind. Ingredient for alleviating the symptoms of excessive trapped wind in the bowel is simethicon / simeticon. Alverine citrate, the other ingredient, is for alleviating bowel spasms.

[buggins55 in reply to Meleber]

thank you I will look into that

[Kimberly99]

Yes, I had this for two full weeks as I was researching what it was and what to do. It sounds like SIBO and/or Candida overgrowth. At least it did for me. My plan of action was, cut all sugar, starch, and yeast. I also started drinking a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water 15 minutes before a meal. That made a HUGE Difference in my pain. It took 2 days, but the bloating and gas went away, along with the pain, and I was able to function again. I continued with a Candida protocol which is mainly a diet and herbal supplements like cloves and oil of oregano. I believe I had Candida because I had "die-off" symptoms that made me feel really yucky for the first week. Then I started to feel amazing! I now maintain with a sugar free diet and very limited carbs. I also don't eat grains or yeast.