I have a terrible shame about farting often and loud. I am 46 and as a woman its not appropriate to fart loud and often but sometimes I fart in public and it just comes out and I have ibs and have to have a colonoscopy and tomorrow I have to have a vaginal ultrasound due to abdominal pain and I am afraid of farting during the procedure. I want to fart and let it out rather then hold it in sometimes it helps just to put some preasure into it and blast it out quickly and loudly is embarrassing. at home I think two shits to my family, as they fart. but this is a whole new me, I never used to fart so loudly and often. is it something that happens as women age as I have been in public toilets and heard old women pee and they will fart as they relax the bladder muscles to pee and I knew a lady who was seeing a therapist who was fearful of farting everywhere. I found I would fart as a young woman only in certain places but now, omg its so nightmare. and the pain as well. wind pain is bad. a day is a good day if I s*** well, that is something to look forward to in old age with a heap of other things.