Embarrassing... my stomach issues have been noticed at work!

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Its embarrassing to write about this... but i really feel like a disgusting loser now.

I have undiagnosed stomach issues, ibs possibly. My guts create an ernomous amount of gas... and if i dont let ot out, it makes me look like i have fat/pregnant belly and i have awful pain. It can be controlled with gluten free fodmap diet, but it kind of got ruined when i started to work at this place 3 months ago. Here people bring cakes and pastry almost every day, and i eat it with them just so i would fit in.. Ignoring my belly.

So i let the gas out even at work. Silently, making sure nobodys around.... Thinking the air conditioning makes the smell disappear.... In my first month i used to fart only in bathroom, but then on a coffee break this one woman made a big deal about how the womens toilet smells bad again. She didnt say she thinks its me. Anyway, after this i started to fart everywhere else, as i thought maybe nobody notices it.

This morning this woman came near to my desk, saying out very loudly ”it smells like fart here, again!!”... Looking at me with angry face.


Now i have realized shes been aware of my fart problem all the time, and i also realized why i have been hearing so many fart jokes around me lately. I just want to die from embarrassment. I should have kept my gas inside and suffer the pain and bloating. How could i be so stupid i fart at work... Now what do i do? Stick to my diet and stop eating cakes with them? Or just suffer? Or just die from the embarrasment by suffocating in farts?


Everybody at work will remember me not only as quiet and inept girl, but also as the fart queen and i thought people dislike me for being quiet, but i guess its because of smells!

Also to mention, i had not yet farted today when this woman pointed it out. I guess she meant she cant handle having to smell it today again?

And everytime she walks near me, she keeps breathing unusually deep and LOUD. I didnt realize until now that its only around me, a hint to stop smelling. Took 3 months to understand it...

Please somebody kill me...

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There are products you can take.

You can also excuse yourself, saying that you are dieting.
Yes, you are dieting. And no, you don't have to tell them the gory details why.

Be honest, say your passing on the pastry since it aggravates your ibs.

I used to have bad gass when I was younger. For some reason it went away.

I would avoid cake if it makes you fart. Say it aggrivates your IBS.

Thanks for having the courage to post this. I'm sorry for your difficulties.

Gas-X or Beano are pills that I know are available where I live. Have you tried things like that?

I've never tried the following and I don't know if the product would work, and I'm not making this up, but I recall seeing some sort of chair cushion that apparently is filled with activated charcoal and is supposed to trap the smell of flatulence?? That may sound weird, but if it works, I think it was marketed with the idea that a person would want to use such a thing in an office setting.

I'm also thankful that you had the courage to post this because it's given me a new perspective on a past experience I had at an office I worked at years ago. My cubicle was next to a co-worker who seemed to fart constantly and often with him, quite loudly at times. It angered the many workers because of the smell and because we thought that he was doing it on purpose and that he enjoyed irritating people that way. His nickname was "Farts" (not to his face). I moved away and therefore left the job, but after what you've posted, I now wonder if maybe he couldn't help it?

He and I did share a common interest in The Simpsons at the time and would amuse ourselves quoting lines from the show and he was a jovial person. It didn't bother me when I'd hear him pass gas. So what. The smell though was offensive to me on the occasions it would waft over the cubicle wall or even sometimes stink up the whole area around our work stations.

I agree with others that you should have every right not to be judged for not eating office sweets if you know they don't agree with you and you shouldn't have to explain to people as to why. None of anyone's business.

Stop eating the things that are making you have these issues.

You know what's causing it - so stop it.

Well what's better......eating certain foods and farting which creates embarrassing situations OR simply stop eating that said food and be clear of gas? Hmm, I think passing on that food would be better than blowing the place up with methane

Yes, stop eating that fart-making food. Oust is an odor neutralizing spray we use in our household bathroom. Seems to work pretty well. Also, the yoga poses downward dog & seated twist are good for gas pain. Everybody farts. Even the Queen of England. Even those cry babies in your workplace. Please don’t be embarrassed.

I would advise against eating the food that cause the stomach issue. However, it might not stop the problem with the coworker who has called you out on it though. From experience, some people get stuck on complaining about certain things about people. Those that do are a type of a bully.

If she keeps up mentioning farts around you after you have stopped eating that type of food for a while, I would use reverse psychology on her and return the comments back to her in response at a later time. You could act like she is the person causing the issue and then she how she reacts to that.

(The evil side of my mind would suggest buying a can of fart spray that can be quickly used in that case.)

I really never have to deal with this issue in a laboratory setting because many of the chemicals have strong smells. Some of them (especially dithiols) smell worse than a skunk's hind end. A stinky fart would smell like perfume in those instances.

Some people have a very strong sense of smell. So it seems like there have been some very good suggestions offered by other posters such as avoid the cake or other goodies that co-workers bring into work, use Beano and other produces using digestive enzymes. Here is a link to an article with a range of other good ideas.
10 Tips to Help You Stop Farting

On the other side of the mirror, you might use some products such as potpourri to make the area around your desk smell better. In other words hide your scent with other scents.

My mom took Beano for a while and it seemed to work for her. She farts a lot.

I used to have bad gas for most of my life. Haven’t for the last 5 years or so.


Gut dysbiosis. Intestinal yeast infection. If you feed yeast sugar it will produce gases. Don’t eat the things that fuel it, so eat the things that kill it.

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I know how you feel. I get terribly embarrassed talking about farting to people, and I often pretend I don't fart at all, even though everyone knows that everyone does it, but still, it's reassuring to know that people at least can't picture me farting. That's good enough for me. But I don't have so much trouble talking about it anonymously online.

I think the people at your workplace are quite rude for pointing out a smell when you fart. In my experience, if there's a bad smell around a group of colleagues at work, everybody's too polite to say. It is juvenile to keep on making cheap jokes about a fart or fart smell.

Sometimes I have a problem when I need to poop, there seems to be a lot of gas with it and when there's poop there it makes it hard to hold the gas in before I get to a toilet. It's OK when there's nobody around, but when there is, I've got to sit still and concentrate hard on keeping the gas in until the feeling passes. Then when the feeling is temporarily gone, I quickly go to the bathroom where I am alone and so can't embarrass myself.

I wish bodies can dissolve gas some way and farting never existed. I have an aunt who has a particular bowel disease and it makes her literally unable to hold her farts in, even if she doesn't need to poop. Plus her farts are loud and extremely smelly. If I ever got like that, I don't think I would ever go out again.

Thank you everybody for answers. I try to avoid eating cakes and other things now. I also bought some medicine for gas, and it seems to help a bit.

Unfortunately, it still smells like farts here. Its not from me, its probably coming from outside, but i'm afraid everybody thinks its still me...

I remember at work, sometime the smell in certain parts of the building would become overwhelming. It was due to a floor drains. Some floors have a drain trap (like an "S" shaped pipe. A little water in the drain would prevent the sewer gases from leaking back into the building. But sometimes the trap would dry out in the middle of the summer or winter and all those sewer gases would be released. The quick solution was to pour a couple glasses of water down the floor drain. That was all it took to make the building smell better again.

Often a floor drain whose only function is to catch on-floor flooding in a basement is so seldom used that its floor trap dries out and sewer gases pass backwards into the building. Sometimes these drain traps are installed in restrooms or other areas of the building.