Excruciating trapped wind?!!

[Bunbum]

A bit embarrassed to be posting this but I truly suffer with the most debilitating trapped wind and I’d like to know if anybody has any good advice on how to ease it.

It’s very strange, it happens A LOT (as in, multiple times per week) and typically occurs after I take DC to bed. I eat dinner any time between 3-5pm usually and take the kids to bed between 7.30-8pm. I lay there with them for around 20-30 mins to get them off and then get up. It always seems to occur once I stand up from laying down for that short period, which is strange.

The pain though…. It honestly can be agonizing and I’ll walk around all hunched over. Sitting down does nothing, I often have to go to bed and find a laying down position that eases it.

I’ve tried teas but they don’t seem to work.

Really getting fed up of it and currently trying to make a little more effort in the bedroom and so going back to the living room hunched over clearly needing a good fart isn’t exactly sexy for poor DP!!!!

Might be worth noting (just to embarrass myself even more) I don’t burp… or should I say, I can’t burp. Never have been able to burp, so that may be why it’s such an issue…

I used to take colpermin but they started to give me terrible stomach ache so I've switched to buscopan and I swear by boiled water.

I get terrible trapped wind in my chest and between my shoulder blades, feels like I’m in a vice.

However I burp loads but barely fart so I think it gets stuck the opposite way round.

If I feel a rumbling of it I take Colpermine or buscomints, and lie on my left hand side. Dh will rub and pat on my back too until I belch it up.

Oh the shoulder pain is horrible!

Have you been tested for Coeliac disease? It’s often misdiagnosed as IBS.
https://www.coeliac.org.uk/information-and-support/coeliac-disease/about-coeliac-disease/what-are-coeliac-disease-symptoms/

Anything tight around my waist can cause this for me, it's agony.

So if you've put on a bit of weight and things aren't quite fitting as well as they used to that might not be helping.

I had to bin a load of tights because of it.

I wish I could trap mine! No matter how hard I clamp my bum cheeks together, it insists on escaping - normally with an indignant squeak!

No, because I don't touch spicy food anymore and haven't had any problems lately.

Have you tried Gaviscon liquid?

Refreshers--the old sweets. I was recommended these when I had a hysterectomy last summer and they worked brilliantly.

Thank you everybody for your replies - some very helpful advice.

Absolutely astonished by how many fellow non burpers there are, I just feel like there is now a whole community of us that I never knew about 🤣

Do you have a cup of tea before you suffer? I have a cast iron stomach but tea gives me the most horrific trapped wind!

@CoraPirbright I don’t usually but funnily enough last night when I was in agony and writing this post I did have a cup of tea not long before.. so maybe thats why it went from bad to worse!

I had this and it has gone since giving up wheat.

Horrible though!

I went to A&E once with what ended up as gas pains but started as chest pain that radiated down my stomach for hours and hours, the pain was AWFUL. I find Rennie Deflatline tablets work for me.

I sometimes get this and find it worse when I am stressed. I find that laying on my left hand side curled up and having a nap can help ease some of the pain.

That's how my gallbladder attacks start. In my chest and between my shoulder blades. I have to lay over as many pillows as possible just to get some relief. Apple cider vinegar in a bit of apple juice is good too

Windeze is marvellous stuff. That is all I have to say.