Hi.
I'm, new here, but I've been inflating for a few years with water and air, and reading you guys' forum posts. Recently, while inflating with air (using my small Whisper aquarium pump), I reached my limit, so I decided to start letting air out slowly while sill being inflated. Eventually, I felt air moving in the bottom right of my belly. I was so startled by this unusual experience so I immediately deflated. I've been able to recreate that sensation by lying down on my stomach, leaning to the left to focus the inflation on my right side, and then when I feel pretty full, I relax a little and the air keeps going, giving me that unusual inflating feeling again. If I allow it to keep going, I feel even fuller than before! However awesome it is, though, is it safe?
I have read a few things on here about inflating safely. I remember reading that water inflation with too much pressure (shower inflation, typically) runs the risk of flowing contents into the small intestine that only the large intestine is meant to contain, which could lead to infections, or death. Knowing this, I will not try this with water, ever, and I won't advise anyone to try it with water either. Still, though, I'm doing this with air, so that makes me wonder: would inflating past the large intestine be safe? Could one inflate all the way to their stomach, achieving maximum capacity? Could the small intestine even handle being inflated?
Thanks for indulging in my exploration of inflation!
If it's flowing naturally, and you're not extremely full, I can't see it being air flowing into your small intestine. It's probably filling some pocket of your large intestine that it couldn't before. And even if it does fill your small intestine... how exactly is that dangerous? Doesn't air go through your small intestine anyways when your swallow air? As long as your aren't pumping industrially polluted air I don't see how it can really hurt you. I mean, it's AIR.
Who here is up for INTENSE ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT?! YAAAAAY