Excessive gas

This is embarrassing to bring up but I need to.  What do you do for excessive gas?  I don't really have any bloating but the gas is bad.  I've been trying to up my fiber intake and have started taking a fiber supplement.  It's only about 4 grams of fiber.  I've also been eating plumcots, pluots and bananas.  I don't know if they're high in fiber too.  Of course, I googled excessive gas and found all kinds of horrible diseases.  I suffer with many of the symptoms of IBS but I never had this one.  Is this common?  And what helps it?  I hate to cut back on the fiber as it's supposed to be good for you.  Have I increased it too much too fast?  Is this something my body needs to get used to?  Yikes! 

I had really excessive gas and bloating and was able to cut it WAY down by cutting out wheat and corn completely and only having maybe 1 serving of another grain per day (rice, oats, etc). I also quit drinking sodas and cut out most sugar and artificial sweeteners.

Maybe try just cutting out one thing at a time.

Hey, IBS could be caused by a candida infection. I had embarrassing uncontrollable flatulence like you for a whole year and even going on the fodmaps diet didn't reduce it. The kind of flatulence was very frequent and even when eating foods that were fodmaps safe or typically healthier foods like veggies, fruit, wholegrain, meat, rice. Everything gave me flatulence, i felt it was ridiculous. It took me a year to discover it was candida in my intestines. Candida has a broad list of symptoms you should check out and you may have other forms of it like a vaginal yeast infection. I didn't notice but during the year that i had candida infection i was lethargic, more anxious, depressed, moody, unfocused and foggy-brained. I started a strict candida diet last week - eggs, meat, fish, low starch vegs, almonds, avocado, no fruit, sugar or wheat rye barley polenta oats buckwheat rice anything starchy and took antifungals coconut oil and pau d'arco tea at the same time. After 5 horrible days of die off symptoms yeast was visible in my stool and i felt relieved that my candida was real. Probiotics are also a must to fight the candida as well as rebalance the gut flora which is key to recovering from ibs. A good one i've found after tiring research is Jarrow Dophilus. I have IBS-C and probiotics will definitely help with regularity preventing any breeding ground for the candida. The strict diet should be continued for a few weeks to a couple months and after that maintain a diet that allows only restricted amounts of sugar and lower carb grains like buckwheat quinoa brown rice and other lower sugar vegs/fruit/nuts. All sugar - fructose, dextrose, lactose and more- feed candida so be careful of anything and check labels . It's a hard process but I'm already feeling better after a week and i see light at the end of the tunnel.

Also many yeast infections start from taking antibiotics which kill the good bacteria needed for good digestion. Yeast is normal but not when its overgrown. Poor digestion leads to the frequent gas.