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.
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.
Look at a low fodmap diet.
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.
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.
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.
Sleeping on my side makes me fart so I sleep in my back to save my marriage
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.
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)
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?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’d be something like lactose intolerance, or an approximate. The body can’t or doesn’t like to digest some type of food, so it has a hell of a gassy time trying
Stop drinking milk.
As you relax, so do your sphincter muscles.
Do you eat a lot of garlic? That’s what gets me.
