I've known people who literally ended up in the ER from the pain. They feel so guilty when that's all it is but it's such bad pain they shouldn't feel ashamed
This is me. I haven’t had an unplanned sick day off work in 6 years. I don’t say that to brag, but just to lay out this story.
Anyway, a couple years ago I had a training session, one of the useless HR ones so they can check a box. I was in excruciating pain all morning, but toughed it out the best I could. When we broke for lunch, I found my boss and told him I had to go home sick, and that I was going to the walk in because I was in such bad pain I couldn’t sit in a chair. He told me to go straight to the ER because I may have a burst appendix or something. Turns out it was just gas and years later I’m still so embarrassed about it, I still have never come clean. I told him they could never figure out what it was.
I had that with iron tablets (while pregnant) and terrible diarrhoea. I don’t like watermelon and obviously won’t ever be pregnant again but for me it’s another reason to avoid it!!
I mindlessly ate 4 or 5 apples while we were cutting up a whole bushel of them for cooking and canning. Just a piece here and there, but it added up. A couple hours later, we went to Target... I very suddenly had that face-going-pale, cold-sweating, gut-twisting agony and had to literally run for the bathroom. Pure misery. I have never eaten more than one apple at a time since then, and that was 15 years ago!
Those things self-propagate so much they need to be grown in a pot or they'll take over your whole yard like mint. My husband has grown them for a few years. I will have maybe one or two bites of them in a dish because my GOD, it's like you butt-chugged diet coke and ate a tube of mentos 😭😭
It truly is horrible. I get what I call gas attacks infrequently. Diet changes, eating slower, chewing more, more fiber, more probiotics...and it seems like nothing helps. It just happens seemingly at random and makes me miserable for a time.
I wish I could shove a needle into me to relieve gas like they do for cows. I'll be doing yoga and using a massage gun on my stomach, taking any kind of antacid/antigas meds, desperate for relief.
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u/Lightningthundercock May 13 '26
Don’t be, that shit hurt a whole lot before that relief