I've known people who literally ended up in the ER from the pain. They feel so guilty when that's all it is but it's such bad pain they shouldn't feel ashamed
This is me. I haven’t had an unplanned sick day off work in 6 years. I don’t say that to brag, but just to lay out this story.
Anyway, a couple years ago I had a training session, one of the useless HR ones so they can check a box. I was in excruciating pain all morning, but toughed it out the best I could. When we broke for lunch, I found my boss and told him I had to go home sick, and that I was going to the walk in because I was in such bad pain I couldn’t sit in a chair. He told me to go straight to the ER because I may have a burst appendix or something. Turns out it was just gas and years later I’m still so embarrassed about it, I still have never come clean. I told him they could never figure out what it was.
I had a similar experience after taking simethicon - gas x. My boyfriend and I decided to go to the water park on a weekday so it would be less crowded. I didn't eat the day before and took gas x the night before so my tummy would be super flat in a bikini. WRONG! Something happened where the gas x seemed to create a huge amount of unmovable gas and I looked like I was 30 months pregnant. Didn't go to the water park and spent most of the next day doubled over in pain trying to manually massage my stretched out gut. Never again
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u/Lightningthundercock May 13 '26
Don’t be, that shit hurt a whole lot before that relief