JHuggs, I think I would hit my Dad if he ever said that to me!
That's interesting that your whole stomach area bloats out - my bloat is my lower abdomen only - really more in my pelvic area. Which is so frustrating to me, because I spend all of this time tinkering with my diet to avoid the bloat, but it very well might be due to Endo or my bladder in my case. I'm so fed up with all of this - all of my different doctors blame something else for the bloating and nobody has found the cause! My PT says that I bloat because my pelvic floor muscles are weak, my pelvic pain specialist says I bloat because of IBS, and my GI doctor blames my bladder and says that I "just have to learn to live with it."
I'm interested if anyone else only gets bloated in their low low abdomen.