Trapped Wind? can anyone help

RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

Hello,
This sounds like a bit of a strange one. Is it actually possible to get trapped wind inyour shoulders? I dont not believe you, its just something you dont hear of everyday.
The only thing i could suggest is drinking a s**t load of peppermint tea after meals and before meals, it really does do wonders for the wind situation. What is your clients diet like, i know you wil of been through many suggestions like this with the G.P and so on but there are many people on here that know alot of insightfull tips when it comes to nutrition, maybe post the client dail intake of food and see if there is anything in it.
This may not be much help but im sure somebody might have an idea.
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RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

What about getting her to see a TCM doctor - couldit be a food intolerance? Very odd!

RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

Hello Springster,

How does she know she has trapped wind around her body??? It does sound very odd. Again, as someone has previously said, I don't not believe it but I can't physically work out how the air would get trapped in those places. Is it physically possible?

My 'rough' guess would be that she may well suffer from trapped wind but this could be due to her being very tense or uptight & the other symptoms are actually muscle tension. It is perfectly normal when we relax that we release wind, it happens to my clients even if I'm not working on their tummy's. It'sa sign that she is relaxing. She seems to keep all of her tensions in her tummy & bowel area. This could indeed indicate Irritable bowel but if she doesn't have any other symptoms I would guess it's more a psychological condition & more connected to stress.

On a practical level, I would definately go with the advice of peppermint tea. Tummy massage could really help & if that fails she can buy a tablet called 'Motililium 10' It is fab for expelling 'wind' without embarrassment or pain.

Hope I've been of some help, I would love to know how she gets on or if anyone knows if you can get trapped wind elsewhere in your body??????

Love & Light

Angel Girl
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RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

Hi Springster,

Not sure I can help to solve the problem but when I have suffered from bad wind (nothing diagnosed with the doctor but I suspect it is food related), I roll about on one of the really big gym balls. It really gets to the right place to relieve the pain.

My son is only 5 and when he gets wind, he runs for his space hopper and does the same thing, it works for us!!

I've now given up pasta, rice and bread (except for home made pizza once a week) to loose stubborn weight, funnily enough I haven't had much stomach pain either.

Peppermint 🙂

RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

In answer to some of the questions about whether wind can be trapped in other parts of the body, the answer is no it cant. BUT pain from wind trapped in the tummy can be felt in other areas of the body - for example after a laparoscopic operation on the abdomen, where the abdomen is inflated with gas so the surgeon can see clearly, one of the after effects can be pain in the shoulder(s) until the gas is absorbed or expelled.

Hope this helps

Claire

RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

Hi All!

Thanks for your advice. I've been down the peppermint route but had no luck. Even used Peppemintin her massage oil. Her diet isreally good so I don't think its that.Just can't get my head around it. Been thinking could it perhaps be acid?? Its so strange I can't work it out either, as you say it just can't be possible. I will give her some of your ideas, also i've written to her GP so hopefully he will refer her for further tests.

Springster

RE: Trapped Wind? can anyone help

Hi there am new to this so hope all goes well, in relation to trapped wind i suffered terribly from it and found if i chewed some fresh mint leaves it didn't half help, they don't taste too good and you have to chew for ages but it does work, hope this helps, good luck 😉

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I suffer from identical symptoms and apart from my mum who suffers the same nobody else takes it seriously. Mum says a doctor told her years ago that trapped wind can make you feel very ill and it certainly does. The foggy head (although i always say i've got a ****ty head) the pain that is behind the eyes, in shoulders, back of head and sometimes I think my browbone feels swollen. It seems to move about alot. I say sometimes it feels like someone has been playing marbles with my eyes and other times i say it feels like I've been hit across the back of the head with a plank. I can't really concentrate and usually have to lie down with my eyes closed as soon as I get in from work.Sometimes it can last two days or more. I just know it is wind and you have to go through it to believe it. What a relief to read of someone who knows exactly what I mean.

fellow sufferer

me too

i suffer the odd bit of trapped wind:mad:. but i mostly get it on my back, so what could that be? now sometimes i do eat quickly and a bad posture when am in a hurry but is that not trapped wind? even though you can only get wind in your tummy.

help !! 😎

Trapped wind has to be one of the most painful things ever, I had it after an operation for an ectopic pregnancy & have to say that when I eventually got home the effects of being filled with gas honestly made me think I had something else seriously wrong with me.:)

Anyway, I occasionally still get it now & one of the best things I have found is ginger tea, rather than peppermint. and also aloe vera tablets have worked brilliantly for me..although better if you take them regularly. massage is also great!

i used to suffer from extremely bad wind too - I used to blow up like a balloon. What was worse still though was the pain. After a while it got rather silly and also rather unpleasant smelling. The doctor just said it was IBS - I couldn't believe this as it came on after 30 years of being "normal". I took high dose probiotics for approx a year (by high dose, I mean 48 billion a day) - although this helped, it just masked the situation.

I recently started taking Aloe Vera Gel which has cleared up the problem altogether. I was so impressed that I took up a Forever Living Products distributorship.

Don't know if this will work for everyone, but if you can find someone in your area, it just might work for you. Good luck.

Hi there, hand reflexology works well in the digestive areas and also if I get trapped wind I lay on my front for a few minutes and this usually relieves the symptoms almost instantly.

Trapped wind that causes pain in other areas of the body - well I agree with the person above who said that the pains of trapped wind may be felt anywhere. It could be through the nervous system or through the meridian system. I know that when I treat a particular client with acupuncture she burps like mad!

Trapped wind is another symptom of a possible yeast problem in the gut area. This is something that can be diagnosed by a good kinesiologist, who should also recommend a course of internal cleansing to eradicate the problem.

Good luck with it

xx christine

Hi all, wonder if anyone can help??

A client of mine suffers badly with trapped wind....Massage seems to temporarily give relief and makes her feel instantly better. Her GP doesn't have an explanation and therefore can't treat it. My client is also very sensitive to most medications.
Does anyone suffer from this or has anybody come across it before?? Could this condition be connected with irritable bowel?

Would love to get to the bottom of this or at least know more about it.

Springster

Hi Springster,

Maybe I can help you understand better your client:
This lady is in too much control.
Might be someone very tense if not said stressed, and totally unable to relax by herself.
Maybe simply the idea of relaxing require form her a huge effor.t..and of course relaxation doesn't happen when you have to force yourself into it.
Every thing (stress and whatever it can be) is trapped and blokked inside...so are the wind.

When you give her some massage it give some relaxation (shewont be able to afford to herself without your help) so she open a bit to let it go...but only a tiny tiny bit.
So that is not enough at all to ease the symptom which is the proof of a long going unbalance with the let it go ability.
She is in need of deep let it go solution if I can call it this way.