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I once saw a show with MISS MANNERS as the guest and her rule of thumb/ettiquette re: farting in public was to "look to your left."
I love those noxious, silent but deadly ones that nobody claims! I just can't stop laughing when they emanate from me. Some let them rip, but mine have no sound.
Sorry, just being silly. Being organic beings, we are composed of solids, liquids, and GASES with attitude--and other things, of couse.
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I can control my farts in public so that they're silent... can you?
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Formerly HanSolo. IBS, OCD, Bipolar, PTSD times 3.
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Yep. Except, I have this tendency to look to my right and slightly above others when this occurs. I should probably check one of my old psyche texts to verify if there's anything associated with the direction of looking--eye path--and obviously attempting to conceal something. Sometimes, it's just air. And other times they are silent, but deadly. Bad breath of the colon? Can I bum and altoid anyone? Aren't those peppermint caps. soothing? I think it's butt-lip muscles at hard work...vibrating and reverberating like a tuba player. When I don't eat anything exceptionally stinky they don't smell as obvious. RICE is really good for internal odour-eating, among other things, I think.
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Yes, I can do silent ones! Lol! But when I'm home alone--I startle the cat. When bf's around, I try to be polite and head to the bathroom; he does the same. Lately, the gas and bloating have been reduced quite a bit; I think it has to do with this diet (reduces amount of gas) and eating soy yogurt (reduces the odor).
Once, when my sister was younger, she farted in the toy aisle at some store. I recognized it as hers right away, silent but deadly, but I didn't say anything. She, however, said, "Okay, someone farted!" trying to pass the blame onto someone else! Good move, I thought. 
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I've noticed the Phayzyme helps with bloating and making the gas easier to pass, but as someone else mentioned it doesn't reduce the amount of gas you have. I've also used fennel tea and even chewed on fennel seeds, which had the same effect, I think, as the Phayzyme. The seeds didn't really taste bad, but the texture was unpleasant. Right now, I think the diet and SFS has been much more helpful as well as figuring out my personal triggers and avoiding them the best I can. Of course, it isn't a quick fix. I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions on how to immediately reduce gas. 
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Lately, I've been drinking fennel tea or just waiting out. I know meds won't make the gas go away. It's not even painful gas. It's just the annoying sort that you can feel rolling around in there, know what I mean? I just wondered if Phazime was any better. Gas-X does nothing for me anymore. Thanks for the tips, though. I think I'll give Phazime a try.
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I've known DH now for 8 years, been married for 4 1/2 and he's heard me fluff once, when he tickled me too hard. Otherwise I hang on till I get to a loo  I just get SO embarrassed by my own bodily functions. Meanwhile he feels free to let rip on an hourly basis around me no matter what sound or scent he leaves hanging in the atmosphere! Me, I just can't do it Causes me great pain sometimes!
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I have always been worried about the gas I pass. I cannot control it when I have gas in the tummy so every time I get up it comes out automatically and I am embarresed by it. Sometimes while walking or just standing it keeps coming out in bits with a reasonable noise and I am uncomfortable as at work I really dont know how to control it. So at a time like this I try to get out of my room so no one will hear. However at home I just let go. At nights I pass gas in my sleep so next morning my son tells me that I was rocket launching the whole night. When I pass gas loudly like this I feel good but it is OK when no one is around. I have managed to control this by not eating food that causes gas.
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I can relate to all of that. I'm new to eating for IBS. I stay away from brocolli, but don't know what foods trigger my gas. Is wheat one? I may have to eliminate that for a while and see. What are some things I can eliminate to reduce the gas? Sometimes at work I have gas that rumbles and ends in my lower intestine but doesn't escape entirely. It's like a muffled stomach burp and unmistakably not a hunger sound. I'm a social feax pas waiting to happen! 
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I've never been shy about farting or burping around others; I just politely excuse myself. But in the last oh I'd say three months or so, my gas has been painful and/or really stinky. What's worse is it feels like I have to go because of that trapped gas, but nothing but gas comes out. Speaking of painful gas, I'm having some right now. I don't have anything other than these Rolaids Soft Chews Anti-Gas, and some bread. I sometimes will use bread thinking maybe it's a hunger issue and I'm gassy cuz I'm hungry. I dunno. It's really NOT fun and I agree with JustMe, the whole IBS thing sometimes just makes me wanna cry, sometimes out of pain, sometimes out of frustration, sometimes cuz of both.
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XOXO from lil' ol' me.  (IBS-C, mood disorders, etc., etc.)
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