More gas/bloating as we get older?

IMO it's moving less and not digesting foods properly.

A good laugh here too. So glad that people can accept that it does happen and they can laugh about it.

We should form an orchestra !! I wonder what Gareth would think ? He could accompany us on the piano---------outside the hall !

I’m enjoying the amusing posts- keep them coming?

Thanks again for the helpful replies. I feel onions and garlic could be a factor as well as natural aging. I think he just wanted reassurance than some others get windier with age. It’s only recently that he’s admitted to feeling older at all?

Simple! Take out you hearing aids at meal times, don't watch "Blazing Saddles" and keep off baked beans and Brussel Sprouts!

Well I thought I had a fartectomy too but it turns out that I have a colostomy that went to music college and loves to contribute at choral concerts and any other musical soiree ?

Jane10 ?

Like Her Majesty, I had a fartectomy , so I can’t really comment.

jane10

At least mine don't pong. That would make it ten times more embarrassing!!!

When I had a very uncomfortable colonoscopy, I was told I had a Tortuous bowel, ie very long, large and loopy! I get lots of trapped wind and it is such a relief when it moves on and out! Good thing I live alone.

He needs a test, gp will send him for one, just to be on the safe side. Don`t mess with anything and that includes pre and pro biotics, he needs to have some things ruled out first and then you can mess with his diet

I think so many of these things are just natural aging progression we are all living much longer than we used to and bits of us get slack
I don’t think we should rush off to the doctors for everything just accept it’s how it is Once you get given tablets for this that and the other you’re on the slippery slope
About 40 years ago I saw the doctor with excess wind I was immediacy diagnosed with IBS which was nonsense as I had no other symptoms 40 years on I still have a lot of gas it’s just how my body works I remember when my grandson was little he was lying on my tummy and said ‘Nanny your tummy is playing a really big tune’ I don’t jump to medical conclusions unless there are other symptoms

Could he have developed a slight food intolerance? I used to get bloating and wind and I’ll swear the amount of air in my body made me pound lighter. It worsened over time to include nausea and eventually sickness and feeling unwell for at least a day.

It took a while but I narrowed it down to garlic. That stuff which is so good for you and which all chefs liberally add to nearly every dish. I used to be fine with it and love garlic bread so assume its something which may develop with an aging gut.

Out of eleven of us on our recent touring holiday there was me and another lady who couldn’t touch the stuff. (She couldn’t eat onions or leaks either so had even bigger problems.)

I remember a problem page doctor advising a flatulence sufferer to go for a walk after meals but to vary her route. I can just see unfortunate residents thinking 'Quick, shut the windows that farting woman's coming down the street'!

Gripe water or fennel tea or ginger tea helps to dispel it

Beano tablets sometimes help a bit (taken before meal, and Windeze tablets taken after). Nothing stops it though.

I suffer from reflux, and farting. Sigh.

I wonder if I might have diverticulitis. I don't think it can be IBS as I'm pretty sure I read that doesn't start later in life.

I know everything in the intestines slows down as we get older. Peristalsis or something.

Buy some BioKult. Boots sell it. That’ll sort your gut out.

Btw, I just drink half a glass of milk to ease the symptoms

I suffer from heartburn occasionally, but nothing that disrupts my quality of life.

I have that problem too. I try to eat slowly, little and often.
When out and about I often have to search for a quiet place to release the gas .
Husband says he doesn't worry about it, it's more natural for men.

I must have absolutely fabulous gut bacteria!

Iam64.... very good ‘let it go’, had to laugh.

Every bit of us is ageing, including the digestive system, so of course OP.
Nothing to worry about, though if you or your DH think it is then cut out a lot of cabbage/broccoli/sprouts etc.

Look how fit race horses are, they're always trumping !

Most of it is " good bacteria " jane.