For the bloating, check with your GI doc for a flyer on gas causing foods. Then, eliminate them from your diet until you find the culprit(s).Pain is a different story. I get a lot of gas, and the pain is excruciating. It hits me in the middle of the night; usually between 2am and 4am. It starts with just a little annoyance in my right side near where my gallbladder is. (4 different gallbladder tests were negative) It slowly builds until it is real pain. Then it gets serious, and comes in waves. It has lasted up to 11 hours. I don't have enough gas to justify the pain, so I think I have two sections of bowel that have spasmed, and have trapped something between them, maybe gas. I have finally learned that onions cause about 90% of these attacks. I avoid onions like the plague, and I take Beano with anything that even looks like it might have onions in it.The really bad sessions lasting 8-11 hours have all been caused by eating greasy eggs at an airport or on a plane. Once I was in England without my pain meds. It was grim. Anyway, pain meds. I have tried pretty much all of the narcotics. Some helped, they all suck. Finally, in desperation, I asked my regular doc to send me to a pain center. They (HMO) insisted that I give a GI doc one last chance. I tried a new guy, and he put me on Ultram (non-narcotic). I take it whenever I get even the slightest symptom of an attack. This, with the Beano, has cut my attacks down to once a month or so, and have made my life bearable. Now, when I have an attack, it's usually when I'm feeling a little bold, and bored with my diet.However, the Ultram is not enough. It helps, but I have also learned that if I pace back and forth in the living room (away from the family in the middle of the night) the pain goes away much quicker, and doesn't get anywhere near as bad as when I sit or try to lay down. The last time my company sent me to Houston, I had airport food. I expected something like an Egg McMuffin, but got something greasy. I was so hungry, I ate it anyway, thinking the Beano would fix it. It didn't. Have you ever paced for 11 hours in a hotel room with only stupid hotel TV to watch? I missed work that day, and told them I wouldn't be traveling for work anymore. I also gave them an ADA notice.Sorry about this life story stuff. Sometimes it just helps to vent.bestbob