HELP! Kidney beans trying to kill me!

[Caerulea]

I'm in desperate need of trapped burp remedies. I'm under investigation for IBS (& all the other things) & made the stupid mistake of eating (really well cooked) Kidney beans for dinner, which was moronic.

Tried peppermint tea, hot water bottle, massage from DH, tempted by two years out of date gaviscon. Son has gone on an hour long round trip to find me Rennies.

Brief relief on meatiest burps but the beans are just in there fucking fermenting or some shit! It's hurting right up my spine & both my sodding shoulders.

So please - anything, anything at all! Cos this is wild!

I wonder if it might actually be gallstones / biliary colic from the description of the pain and it’s intensity

Spoke to 111 & they are sending an ambulance :(

Glad 111 listened and that they are sending an ambulance, but obviously sorry that you’re still in such pain. Did they say how long it might take for ambulance to arrive?

No, response times here are terrible so I've no idea. I think they think I might be having heart issues, she asked if I had some aspirin

Oh God I hope you're ok @Caerulea

Won't help for now, but I recommend getting some probiotic tablets for the future.

Hopefully they will be with you soon, sending lots of good thoughts your way

Thanks all xx I'm shaking like a leaf trying to keep walking around & can't do calming breathing cos it hurts

Crikey hope you're okay op

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I hope you’re soon feeling much better OP. 💐

Wind can be excruciatingly painful.

I was on codeine for a long time for back problems, the chemist decided after 10 months that I’d been on them for too long and stopped them instantly.

I had been so constipated taking them and two days later with none in my system I had stomach cramps that were so painful I was literally begging DP to knock me unconscious. I had no idea what was causing the pain and so we called an ambulance, I had to have a huge dose of morphine before I was out of agony.

It was years ago and I’ve never experienced that kind of pain since, the paramedics and hospital staff rushed tests because I was being sick with pain and fainting with it.

I hope that it’s nothing serious for you OP and I completely sympathise about the pain if it something similar to what i experienced. I would never have believed that kind of pain wouldn’t be caused by serious issues but doctors told me people often don’t realise that when “it’s just wind” how much it can hurt!

Do you have Bicarbonate of soda, one teaspoon in half a glass of water it will really help or get in the bath and the hot water will help you. I often suffer like that and it is horrendous and rennie is crap does nothing. Have you solpadeine for the pain as soluble easier on tummy. A massaage gun. I have to rub my son's back if he gets really bad gas/wind and he was nearly crying once with it, is horrible and the pain always bad on lower right side so get your partner/husband to press in there and as others have said lay out flat and twist to the side or even sit on sofa, bend down and back up slowly as releases wind. Hope you get some relief soon but bicarbonate of soda will help you burp put excess gas.

I hope you have been seen now and have managed to get some relief.

Bloody hell, op. Thinking of you.

Thank you so much everyone. The ambulance service just called me to see if I still wanted them to turn up. Good job I wasn't having a heart attack, aye. I didn't think I was but the system obviously did. I got to the point of thinking my gallbladder was about to explode or something.

The pain dropped off enough I fell asleep in a ball on the setee.

Stomach is being a bit noisy, small burps & I feel like I've been kicked about, just absolutely shattered.

@Minimili I cannot express just how much pain I was in, it really felt like a hand gripping my spine! I didn't want to go to hospital (an hour away) but my brain just didn't know what to do. Had I not got this consultation with the colonoscopy ppl this morning I would have gone even now that it's dropped off. I've always gotten trapped wind (for burps) occasionally but just nothing at all on this scale.

I cannot believe just how bad that was!

i am glad the pain suibsided

Hi. I suffer from this a lot,and recently have discovered wild dose, a herbal tablet which i take daily, to avoid bloating as opposed to treating after becoming bloated. Seriously the best thing i have ever used. I take 2 every morning and also 2 further before my evening meal if i know its something that may cause bloat (not always necessary) seriously give them a try.

https://wild-dose.com/

This sounds similar to my gall bladder pain, attacks eventually subside but come back round. Be worth getting that checked.

I'm glad the pain has subsided - you must be exhausted.

I wanted to say how touching that the petrol station worker gave some of his own Rennies

Gawd, I'd forgotten night shift trapped wind! It was agony - used to radiate up the chest and felt like I was about to have a heart attack.

I knownits the last thing yu want to do but lying on my bac and raising my knees into my chest together and alternating used to help xx

Another one here suggesting that this is your gallbladder rather than IBS.

All sounds very similar to my experience. Being told it was IBS at the start. Excruciating pain starting a few hours after my evening meal lasting all night with pain up my back and in my shoulders. Unable to get comfortable in any position or respite from any painkillers. Nights of little to no sleep with the pain subsiding by 5/6am. I used to vomit because of the pain. It was awful and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

For the future:

• Beans have galacto-oligosaccharides (I think) in. I react terribly badly to these and they do literally ferment inside me. So avoiding anything that contains these may help avoid this in future. For me that means soy, chickpeas, lentils, peas and pretty much any bean. I don't worry about a tiny amount of emulsifier in chocolate or whatever and I can cope with a few fine green beans, or those flat peas where really you're eating the pod - I think because I am eating the pod not the bean/pea.

• For the future, I would highly recommend keeping in a stock of a) windeze (simethicone): this is specifically for trapped wind and is an essential for these situations b) colofac/buscopan/both - these are antispasmodics which help when your gut is going into spasm and c) antacids as discussed.

The first two are key, nothing happens to them if they go out of date so I would keep them in just in case.

That combined with hot water bottle/ice pack/cat-cow/bottom up child's pose etc is my full defence weaponry against fermenting insides. Avoidance is definitely the best tactic though!

Root ginger, peeled and chopped in hot water (add sugar if need be). Fennel and mint also work but ginger will sort you out.

There was one time I had the most horrific pains in my stomach. It was like I was being stabbed. I felt sick. I couldn't lie down flat. I couldn't stand up straight. I thought something had burst in there. I knew I needed to go to the hospital. But I wanted to pee first before I called for help. Thank goodness I did, because the second I sat down on the toilet, by bum cheeks parted and out came a massive fart. My pain disappeared instantly. 😂

The thing that helps now when this happens is to do all the things that you do to a baby with trapped wind. Do squats. Roll side-to-side. Get someone to aggressively pat your back. I was diagnosed with IBS during covid, over the phone, after a poop test and a negative celiac test. No scans. No examinations. It's a totally dismissive diagnosis. Fuck knows what's really going on in there. Really push for an internal when you talk to the consultant today. Don't let them just default to IBS. Good luck!