Nervous Gas?? Ruining My Life!!

[thelmap]

Whenever I am around people, whether it is at home, at a shop, out in the streets, at school, just around people, I fart.
It has gotten to the point where I am known at school as the 'girl who farts' and everyone avoids me. I always hear rude comments and people are mean to me over something I simply do not control! I have tried EVERYTHING to stop this and it just won't work. I have been to multiple doctors but they all said the same thing: there is nothing wrong with you, so go home. I have severe anxiety because of this, and now the anxiety causes it. Because of this problem, I am failing in school (especially in an honors classes), I am depressed, and I now have agoraphobia. I have severe anxiety to the point where I just can't sit STILL around people.. I am super nervous and stressed out and everything turns to liquid in my stomach...which causes even more gas.
I see no point in living life anymore if I cannot even accomplish my simple goals. I just cannot be around people. My self esteem has gone low, and guess what? I am forced to be in this stupid school for the next 3 damn years..I am forced to humiliate myself in front of thousands each day...why do I have to put up with this? Other people have it easy. And there's no cure for it. I don't know what God wants me to do if He has given me something in which there is just no way around...this has gotten to the point of interfering with me living. I can't eat, I can't sleep, I live in fear everyday, all day. I wake up with a sick feeling in my stomach each day when I am about to go to school. How do you imagine that feels like? It used to be so bad in the beginning of the school year that I would throw up.
And my mom won't let me go to online school or homeschool.
She's forcing me to be in this hell.
She doesn't know what it's like, to sit in front of somebody and fart all day long. And then that person goes around and tells people. And then they make fun of you and call you names. And make farting noises (with their hands) in class and laugh then look at you.
I can't even report them, because what am I supposed to say? Help, these people are making fun of me because I fart in their faces every day?
Please, anyone, just give me some information that will make me feel better..even for a day. My parents and teachers are mad because I am failing all my classes...school staff keeps telling me (no lie) that I am stupid and implying that I am stupid when I was a top student with a 4.000 before I got whatever this stupid thing is. Is it even a disease? What the hell is it?
I can't believe they expect me to focus on something like 'school' when I don't even see the point to living anymore.
And don't tell me to go to a counselor (I tried at school; they just completely misunderstood and I am NOT doing that again) or psychiatrist or therapist or anything of that kind because it will go in my record and I don't want that if I want to apply to a great school someday (will that dream even come true? I should just give up on it).
Nor tell me to get drugs for my depression..I simply won't listen. I don't believe in drugs when the root of my depression is this embarrassing gas.
And please, do not be rude. If you don't have anything nice to say, please, just leave. My ego and sense of self worth has been crushed enough already at school and my parents who don't give a sh*t about me.
Telling me you have had the same problem helps.
If you have tried something that has worked, then that will help also.
If you email me, then we can discuss the similarities in each other's situations.
Please, just say something..anybody.. I don't know what to do anymore at this point

[RdLeston]

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[RileyRiley]

Hi, I know how you feel, I felt like I was reading my whole life. The doctors told me not to eat dairy and wheat, that helped a little but it still happens.I think it is mostly caused when I am around people, like if I am  nervous. Sometimes I feel like I am being stabbed in my stomach, and my parents think/say that I am making it up so I do not have to go to school. It is like torture. I hope we find a way out of this.

[thelmap]

Thanks.
Do you have agoraphobia? Because that's what it sounds like you have...I have that also.
I really do not want to take medication...I just don't want to risk dealing with drugs and all these things affecting my brain when I know there is nothing wrong with my brain.
I might rethink counseling. But drugs don't solve depression; they make you feel better, but the problem's still there. Unless you're feeling horrible because of your brain; I don't know about that. But that is certainly not the case with me.
I think I'm going to start recording what I eat. And then writing what happens. I guess I'll just have to play doctor, since none of my real doctors can figure it out.
I don't think I have IBS. But I definitely have anxiety disorder.
I usually drink tea to calm myself down...and I can't really take that to class or whenever I need it when I get nervous..then again, that would cause me to use the bathroom. Oh well.

[cnoevl21]

I don't know of any 'farting disease' other than possible some form of IBS or anxiety disorder. Anxiety totally ***** with your digestive system, can cause bloating, GAS, diarrhea, etc.
I know you dont want to hear it, but anti anxiety medication and counseling could help.
I have Clinical Depression and General Anxiety disorder. I've tried for years to do without meds, but its just too hard.
I dont know what 'records' you are talking about, but I don't think colleges will know if you go to therapy, at least they didn't with me.
I'm not exactly like you, but pretty similar. When I have to be somewhere, right before I have to leave I end up having to go to the bathroom. It made me late to work all the time, or calling out all together. To the point where now I only work from home. I never make plans to go out with friends because I got sick of canceling at the last minute.
I've tried therapy for the last 2 years, and it has helped some, but not enough. As much as I didn't want to take medication, at this point, I will do whatever to try and feel 'normal' again.
Try not to lose hope. If you really don't want to take meds, the only thing I can suggest is an herb called Holy Basil. It is used to calm you down and may help with your anxiety. Try that and see if it helps. You can get it on Amazon: New Chapter Holy Basil. Its worth a shot.
Just don't give up. Things can get better.