So I had this pain at 5am in the morning but I just ignored it and went to sleep. 8am comes and I’m awoken by the pain still being as bad so I started to worry. I have no clue why but I thought maybe peeing would solve the issue because it felt like it was in that area and my body was giving me false signals that I needed to pee. I was thinking oh I have a kidney infection, I have a kidney stone or maybe I have appendicitis so I go to pee and everytime I try to pee the pain gets worse so I start panicking because of how bad the pain is and the fact that I was having difficulty peeing. I have a HUGE history of health anxiety so I panic call 999 (uk emergency service number) and they told me to make an urgent doctors appointment as soon as it was going to open. Luckily they didn’t send an ambulance out but I think they had the common sense that nothing life threatening (which obviously it literally wasn’t) caught their ears or I would’ve felt so crappy for wasting their time. I wouldnt known how to explain “oh the pains gone because I just farted” I think I would have gotten weird and angry looks if I explained that to them. But now I feel exactly bad for wasting time on the line for some someone who actually needed 999. But at least I was being safe than sorry I guess???
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Bloating can be so painful!! Glad yours passed
It’s definitely better safe than sorry. You didn’t know what the problem was. You just knew you were in pain. If you’ve never experienced it before, trapped gas is much more painful than you’d think.