I’ve been farting a lot for my entire life, but especially while sleeping. I usually sleep on my side, curled up, but sometimes on my back. I don’t have any allergies or similar things that could be causing this as far as I know.
For example, last night was like this:
- I lay down, I fart twice
- I adjust my position, I fart again
- I roll on my left side, I fart
- I get up to fix my bed, I fart
- I lay down again, I fart
This is rather unfortunate because I like sleep with my head under the blanket.
Edit: as for my eating habits, my diet has consisted mainly of granola with 2-4 per day and miscellanous fruit and vegetables for the last 4+ years.
Loosen your anus with a dildo each night so the farts can be silent.
Probably has to do with your body relaxing, similar to how dead people are prone to shitting themselves.
Just a guess tho I’m not a medical expert.
It’s not just random that you roll over and then fart. You have uncomfortable gas buildup and when your body feels uncomfortable you shift positions. In this case your body is succeeding in finding the right position to relieve the pressure, via farting.
Gas is a nuisance but sleep disruption is a serious health risk. It will reduce your quality of life and cognitive performance in every measurable way and shorten your life.
So it’s time to address the root cause: the gas. It is not inevitable to have extreme gas. But you are going to have to do some work and accept some changes if you want to fix it. The easiest thing you can do is modify when you eat. Stop eating after 5pm each night and see what happens. Delay your dinner until 8pm and see what happens.
If you cannot find better timing then you must look at what you are eating. Eliminate beans/lentils and see what happens. Eliminate brassica vegetables (broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower) and see what happens. Then cabbage. If none of that helps then look at eliminating carbs after 12 noon. See what happens.
May your farts and sleep improve.
Might be a bit random, and perhaps a bit far fetched, but are you able to burp?
I’ve been struggling with the same thing for most of my life and was diagnosed with R-CPD ( retrograde cricopharygeal dysfunction a couple of months ago. Fortunately there is a treatment that is as good as 100% effective for this diagnosis.
(No burping = excessive flatulence)
Wow, same. How was the treatment? Would you recommend?
Botox treatment scheduled for March/April next year, but I will try to remember to update you when it’s done!
Interesting. Thanks, would love to hear
Long time no update!
Finally scheduled for surgery this upcoming Monday, took a bit longer than expected… I’ll post an update in the following weeks should you still be interested :)
Absolutely! Thanks for the followup. Good luck with the procedure
Hi!
Forgot all about the update! Apologies!
Unfortunately there was no significant improvement this time around, I have had some burps during “hiccups”, but other than that not much has changed.
The procedure itself was done under full anaesthesia, as it is not allowed to be done any other way where I am from. The surgeon injected Botox directly into the Cricopharyngeus Muscle. I was then at the hospital the following night and parts of the next day in case there were any complications. I had some issues swallowing dry food the first couple of weeks, as food seemed to get “stuck” in the back of my throat, but that was easily solved by having a glass of water nearby. This dissipated over time as the effect of the Botox waned.
I just had a follow-up phone consultation with the doctor/surgeon(s) this week, and they are discussing a second attempt amongst themselves. I’ll be getting word back from them sometime soon, hopefully with good news :)
As the procedure requires full anaesthesia it binds up a lot of resources, so that makes them a bit more reluctant.
Hope all is well with you!
Hearing about your experience was very helpful - thank you! I hope the followup procedure, if it happens, is more effective. Would love to hear how it goes if you remember. Best of luck!
I burp every now and then and I think my amount of burps is pretty normal. (though idk how often the average person burps)
Walking will help sort your guts out as well, so by going for a late walk, you can take the problem to the outside!
Otherwise it’s probably just a question of your gut biome having a lot of gas producing parts.
That last line was the funniest thing I’ve read in the past few days, so thank you for that.
I assume they are Dutch.
Suprisingly not, but I do dutch oven myself a lot.
I don’t have any allergies or similar things that could be causing this as far as I know.
Are there allergies that cause excessive flatulence?
Stop drinking milk.
Do you eat a lot of garlic? That’s what gets me.
Farting as you relax and when you bring your knees up towards your chest (common when you sleep on your side) is pretty normal. It might also be a timing thing based on when you go to bed relative to when you’ve eaten.
You might look into why you fart so much if it’s excessive. For instance, I have an odd food intolerance called fructose malabsorption - excess fructose doesn’t get digested, so it just ferments in my intestines. If I eat a lot of it, I’ll get massively painful diarrhea, but usually I just get some gas.
The same thing happens with people who are lactose intolerant: they can usually have some amount of lactose and they just get gassy, so some people don’t even realize they have it.
Other things can also cause unusual amounts of gas.
Look at a low fodmap diet.
When you say granola, is that bars or cereal with milk? You might have lactose intolerance building up if it’s the latter.
Cereal. I thought I had lactose intolerance once and switched to lactose-free milk, but the farts didn’t stop.
Might be the carbs. I can’t say I ever farted as much as you mentioned, but when I went on keto for a couple years, the farts stopped entirely. And I would still eat low-sugar veges like broccoli and brussel sprouts that used to set me off pre-keto.
Obligatory: I am not a doctor, I don’t know your life.
Jumping off the other comment suggesting a low-fodmap diet, do you have other health problems? What sounds like an extremely unbalanced diet (possibility in combination with a round of antibiotics or an episode of food poisoning) may have resulted in a condition called SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth), specifically an overgrowth of methane-producing bacteria. I’d recommend getting tested.
