Why does diarrhea / gas cause crippling pain?
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When I was a teenager suffering from anorexia, I chewed a lot of sugarless gum and by that means created for myself multiple episodes of absolutely agonizing abdominal bloating and gas pain. Basically, bacteria in my intestines were digesting the sweetener in the gum that I could not digest and producing so much gas as a byproduct that my intestines swelled to a point that the space in my abdomen was no longer adequate to contain them without discomfort. I really felt as if my belly would split open from the pressure.
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