Chronic rotten egg/sulfur burps.

[lilys13]

I am a 25 year old female and my only illness asides from these rotten egg/sulfur burps is Asthma -- since an infant. I have suffered with these burps for years of my life, and sometimes I can go years symptom free. When I was a little girl I'd get an isolated episode, projectile vomit until the veins in my face broke, and then was ok for a good year or so. The burps then started up again last October and were chronic and occurred 3-5 times a week. They stopped in Feb, and then began again in April. I have never had them last or be a problem for so long at a time.

These burps ruin my life. Asides from the disgusting taste -- I have to spend 12 hours in bed or else I vomit. I notice around hour 6-8 of the burps I get severe gas pains, bloating, and I cry it is so painful. By hours 10-12 they are gone and don't come back for about another day or two, then reoccur. In the meantime I take 10 mg of OTC pepcid 2X daily to try to prevent them and the heartburn that they come with.

My bowel habits change when the burps are back, and I get extremely constipated. Not to be gross but my bowels are often floating and fowl smelling like the sulfur I burped the day before. Food does not want to digest and I burp up the taste of food eaten over 8-10 hours after a meal. I have lost a large amount of weight as well due to not being able to eat. I had a baby in 2006 a year prior to them starting and I went from 185 after delivery to 145, mainly because of these sulfur burps.

I don't know if this condition is psychosomatic with people around. My husband claims he had a bout of them, as did my mother. I think for them because it was isolated it was in their heads more or less than a real issue. They have to continually see me suffer with the condition.

I quit eating chicken thinking that it was a problem with food. I quit eating wheat. I quit eating raw fruits and vegetables because they are known to be harder to digest. I have tried digestive enzymes, and special yogurts to promote digestion. I about about to try grapefruit seed extract. I am very tired of this condition. I have researched it to no ends on the internet and have found no answer. I am terrified I will starve to death because I can never eat. I have to spend half the week curled in bed with stomach pains while trying to nurse and care for my toddler. It is depressing beyond all means. From reading others around the internet world I know this is a viable problem and is not a simple "stomach virus".

Does anyone have some answers for what this could be, possible medications to treat it, and prognosis?

Thank you!

[MommyToParkerAndLuca]

Sounds like recurrent Helicobactor Pylori. Need antibiotics.

[nando210xx]

I have also suffered with the sulfur burps as well but usually after eating fried chicken. I thought it was from poor sanitary conditions of restaurant kitchen but went to other places and still the same. Is it the grease maybe from the fryers causing it? It's odd because fried chicken is my favorite food and have eaten it my whole life it's just recently the burps have started.

[Bea_lund]

I'm probably late to the party but have you tried alka seltzer? I have had bouts of this off and on for about 7 years. I always thought it was eating meat too fast coupled with soft drink and my stomach would stop digesting it but then found out I am lactose intolerant and can't eat overcooked eggs because of the sulphur. I really think it is something to do with a food intolerance. Sometimes I cave though and eat something I am not supposed to (like tonight). Alka seltzer at least helps cut down the duration on the burps and helps get everything moving again. Hope that helps. Even just knowing that I am not a freak and other people are dealing with it too can help me cope.

[spiritof77]

Do you have candidia overgrowth internal? I have had the burps on and off since childhood. For the candidia growth you have to be very dedicated and follow a certain diet that requires one to give up sugar, carbs, dairy, processed food, anything that turns to sugar and feeds it. I would talk to your Dr. and get tested. You said it started in October which spring and fall produces the humidity to support the growths. My burps are stinking as a result of the toxins being released when they die.I hope this helps and works for you. Peace be with you.

[HeavenlyOne]

I started having these same exact symptoms every 5-6 weeks starting in Nov 2013. Always started first minute I woke up in the morning. Started with a churning stomach, then when I got up to use the bathroom, I would burp and it would taste like like rotten eggs. Watery feeling in stomach would make me feel nauseated so I would make myself throw up. Pure watery diarrhea.  Awful. Lasted over a year. Went to the dr who acted like she didnt care too much, tried to tell her I thought it was Giardiasis, she said probanly not, that Giardiassis wasnt cyclable. I had read it was. She begrudgingly approved a stool test which I knew wasnt going to help because you have to have multiple stool tests to catch parasite. Test came back negative. Mid 2015 started noticing the sickness was getting further and further apart to where I thought it was gone. But this past summer, I statted having episodes again and since late January 2017, I started having the episodes once a week. Cant believe so many people have this same thing.

[jsycz]

H Pylori infection? Ask doc to run the test.