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.
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.
As you relax, so do your sphincter muscles.
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.
Do you know why you fart? Are you secretly lactose intolerant but don’t know it?
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.
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.
gas, trapped in the bowels when sitting or standing upright, is given an avenue of escape once the body lies prone
Do you hold your farts in all day? My SO does, and when she goes to bed a few minutes before me, she will toot like the brass section of a big band sometimes. Practice letting them out silently during the day instead, all that gas has to go somewhere, you can’t just hold it in
Nope, my farts are free to go all day. (well, almost all day)
How long before bed do you eat? And what kind of foods do you eat? Have you tried using the washroom before bed?
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.
Loosen your anus with a dildo each night so the farts can be silent.
Sleeping on my side makes me fart so I sleep in my back to save my marriage
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
I burp every now and then and I think my amount of burps is pretty normal. (though idk how often the average person burps)
Do you eat a lot of garlic? That’s what gets me.
Probably diet. If u eat a lot of legumes or have very little fibre then that could probably be doing it.
