Hiccup type burp...or belch..messed up burps...

[comfortablynumb]

For 5 years i have been suffering with what i can only call a hiccup/belch. Every time i finish food or even when i have an empty stomach i get this hiccup/burp. It sounds like a hiccup but then gas is expelled from my stomach thus giving a belching noice.
It feels really uncomfortable and when im in public i get funny looks as it sounds very strange.

I had an upper GI endoscopy which revealed a very small hiatus hernia, and also my duodeum was scared from ulcers id had in the past.
Also, about 8 years ago i tested positive for Helicobactorpylori. I didnt finish the course of medication (Heli-clear...side effects were very bad)
I was warned that the bug could return if i didnt complete the treatment.

Im not sure what this problem is!!!

i suppose it could be.....

Hietus hernia .....Do you get hiccup/belching from this ???

Helicobacrpylori  Do you get (as above ^^)???

Scaring of duodeum.. ???

Stress ???

I hope you can help.....someone out there must have similar symtoms...?? or is it just me???

Thanks ...PAul

[Happygrommit]

I have the same hiccup/burp thing - for 6 years. Mine doesn't just happen when I eat, it happens throughout the day - every day. I average about 30 or 40 times a day. It's very loud - and yes, I get looks too. So far doctors can't tell my what causes it, they just say hiccups are caused by a muscle spasm in the diaphram - but these aren't regular hiccps so I dont understand. It's just one giant screech followed by a burp. The only thing I have tried is baclofen (muscle relaxer) which did not help. I've had a endoscopy and a ct scan and I was told I had gastritus.

[juancarlos95765]

I am having the problem as we speak, and it's around 3:06 in the morning.  Here is the small description of my health history:

- Ages 5-17 - experienced a lot of pain on my gallbladder after eating fatty foods.  I quickly learned that coke would help if taken during the meal, strange since coke is very acidic.  The pains stopped at the age of seventeen, eventhough my parents never took me to the Dr for it.  I did nothing to stop it; it stopped all by itself. Also very important to note, after 17 I noticed I couldn't take any more milk because I would give me too much gas.  So I stopped drinking it all together and joined the lactose intolerance community.

- At 21 I started experiencing Acid Reflux.  The Dr discovered I had h-pylori and put me on antibiotics.  As mentioned earlier I never quite finished with the treatment.

- At 29 I went to bed and all of the sudden the following combo of symptoms begin: hiccup, burping, farting.  I looked at my stomach and I was bloatted.  I couldn't get rid of the hiccups for 3 days, so I went to the Dr, and he said that it was simply because I ate too much fatty or spicy foods right before going to bed. He asked me to take one tablet of Zantac 150 before bed along with 4 teaspons of milanta.  Two days into the treatment my problem got better and then finally my hiccups went away.  Hiccups as he explained to me, are caused by irratability of the diaphragm, which makes it spasm.  This treatment calmed the irritability.  After the consultation I went back for a followup, and with all fear I put everything on the table.  I told him about my gallbladder issues when I was a child.  I asked him to allow me to take an exam to see if my gallbladder was okay.  He did and ultrasound and found polyps and sludge.  Then I took another exam, which I can't remember the name of the procedure, but they basically put a die intravenously which measured how much gallbladder contracted.  The Dr and surgeons have mentioned to me that I need to remove my gallbladder sometime this year.  I still haven't done it, but I will be doing that pretty soon.

Foods that worsened my problem:
- Drinking 2 cups of coffee everyday of the week.(it has lactose, and coffee which is acidic)
- Mild or very Hot spicy foods.
- Fatty foods.
- Any foods with a lot of lactose, which cause bloattedness.
- Red Wine(also very acidic).

Staying away from this foods, specially coffee has made me feel better all together.  Because it was the fourth of July weekend I felt compelled to test my system with wine and italian foods, and now I am reaping the consecuences of my silly actions.  I will take my gallbladder out sometime soon, hopefully this will help the problem.  Best of luck to you.  I am going to bed now since the hick up has stopped.

[tracyleeb]

I have been having these hiccup/burps for the last two years, everyday, multiple times a day. They randomly come, nothing leads them on and nothing gets rid of them. Although a few males find it "cute", I find it rather annoying. I'm 20 years old, no health complications that I'm aware of...I'm not sure what in the world these things are, though! Today they have been worse than any other day which is why I'm looking up information to try to find a cure or cause. If anyone figures it out, PLEASE let me know!

[gin4short]

I too have that annoying hiccup, following by a burp which relieves the feeling of pressure in my upper abdomen. I have changed my entire diet by eliminating chocolate, coffee, red meat, wheat and dairy. My dr. gave me prescription Zantac which helps a great deal, but I am still having this problem at least 10 times a day. The next step will probably be an upper GI series or endoscopy if this doesn't improve within the next couple of weeks. I have already had an H Pylori blood test to rule out an ulcer, an ultrasound and an MRI which were unremarkable.  I am getting very tired of this!

[AnnJann]

     I have this hiccup/burp thing! It's so comforting to know that there are other people out there with my problem too! I also have uncontrollable hiccups and burps. Ratio of about 3:1 for burps and hiccups. It is getting very frustrating. I have very bad acid reflux and simply by laying down flat at night the acid has gone into my voice-box and has damaged my voice.
     My "donkey brays" as I call them, are extremely loud, loud enough for the whole class to turn around, since I am only 16.
I've had a few outbursts of hiccups that barely allow me to speak reasonably. And I am a singer, so it concerns me, because it can happen when I sing. I've had it for maybe a year and a half! Cheers to those who have had it for 5 years, if it were me I'd have died by then haha.
     The most in a day for me is 44, but I was on 20MG of Omerprazole that brought it down a bit to about 25 a day. They can be painful. I have a lot of excess gas, and my stomach is so loud that people around me turn around, and I can feel it all the way up my esophagus. And the bad days if I don't take medication, I can feel the acid hurting my stomach. It's awful, because if I bray, it feels like it is bringing up hot steam into my throat.
     I am going to the doctor tomorrow to be referred to a specialist, and am probably going to have a endoscopy. I'm getting so tired of it!
     Fruits with a lot of acid such as strawberries give me massive hiccups, but it happens constantly. But so far, no night-time hiccups.

  I'm only 16! I shouldn't have to deal with this! :(
     If anyone has more info, or perhaps a success story, please share!!!

[AnnJann]

  I have this hiccup/burp thing! It's so comforting to know that there are other people out there with my problem too! I also have uncontrollable hiccups and burps. Ratio of about 3:1 for burps and hiccups. It is getting very frustrating. I have very bad acid reflux and simply by laying down flat at night the acid has gone into my voice-box and has damaged my voice.
     My "donkey brays" as I call them, are extremely loud, loud enough for the whole class to turn around, since I am only 16.
I've had a few outbursts of hiccups that barely allow me to speak reasonably. And I am a singer, so it concerns me, because it can happen when I sing. I've had it for maybe a year and a half! Cheers to those who have had it for 5 years, if it were me I'd have died by then haha.
     The most in a day for me is 44, but I was on 20MG of Omerprazole that brought it down a bit to about 25 a day. They can be painful. I have a lot of excess gas, and my stomach is so loud that people around me turn around, and I can feel it all the way up my esophagus. And the bad days if I don't take medication, I can feel the acid hurting my stomach. It's awful, because if I bray, it feels like it is bringing up hot steam into my throat.
     I am going to the doctor tomorrow to be referred to a specialist, and am probably going to have a endoscopy. I'm getting so tired of it!
     Fruits with a lot of acid such as strawberries give me massive hiccups, but it happens constantly. But so far, no night-time hiccups.

  I'm only 16! I shouldn't have to deal with this! :(
     If anyone has more info, or perhaps a success story, please share!!!

[LuLumook]

I too have this problem. I never had heartburn or acid reflux problems and then when I was pregnant with my 2nd baby (I was 36) suddenly 1/2 way through pregnancy, I began doing these weird burp/hiccups. After having the baby, they didn't go away. I have been doing them ever since on a regular basis. I can't believe so many OTHERS have this problem. I too, thought it was only me. To me, it feels like a burp coming- I feel the slight pressure of this pre-burp and then it seems to suddenly attack me, come out of nowhere and a burp or hiccup sort of explodes from my mouth. With it comes a sound that I can only describe as sounding like a chicken "BAWK!" sound. My husband ever so sweetly and lovingly named them "bi-gawks!" As if you sneaked up on a chicken and startled it- it sounds exactly like that- "Bi-gawk!"
I "bi-gawk" about 20-30 times a day- maybe more. I've never really counted. I CAN stifle the sound if in public, but I have to really be aware of it and try hard. At home, they just slip out and my husband and children will repeat the sound from different rooms in the house to tease and "echo" me with humor. Funny, yeah right. I wish I didn't do it, but yet after a "bi-gawk" escapes me, I feel so much better. By this intense burp/hiccup spasm, I'm certain much more gas (or whatever it is building inside me) is allowed to escape than with a simple burp. I seem to do it more AFTER eating and I ESPECIALLY find that when I am lying down (watching TV and even sleeping) and I simply get up (even in the middle of the night to use the bathroom) as SOON as I stand up, one rises up and explodes from my mouth. They are very abrupt, very loud and very quick- not to mention, very powerful.
I had a colonoscopy last year and an upper GI and they said everything looked good. Gastrologist told me I had GERD and put me on nexium. The Nexium gave me pains in my stomach/intestines (I don't know where exactly) and felt like sharp pains under bottom of rib cage. I stopped the nexium and seemed fine. But I still "bi-gawk." Another Doctor tested me for H pylori, which was positive. As far as I know, I have had a re-occurance of H pylori at least 3 times and done the antibiotics. Now it's been 6 years and I DO NOW have bouts with heartburn and pop the occasional zantac and go on Prevacid on and off depending on the severity of the bi-gawks. Prevacid seems to help.
Alcohol however, makes it all worse and the day AFTER drinking more than 3 drinks- I might as well stay in bed. Feel like I have the flu. Weak, lightheaded, shaky, pale, stomach is gurgly and upset, painful cramps, I feel queasy, I have a headache (and I'm not talking a hang-over either...) not like I got drunk- I just have like a mild, sick headache that eventually gets worse throughout the day. My bowels will be all upset and I either have very loose stools (yellow-ish in color) or I have tar-ish (dark almost greenish black stools) or I can't go at all and won't for a few days afterwards. If that happens, I get bloated, stomach seems to extend and I have painful cramps.
I was convinced I had some kind of stomach tumor the way I bi-gawked, (kind of kidding, kind of not...) but glad to know there are others out there. I believe the bi-gawking is due to GERD or something gastritis involved, and suspect the lower intestines, painful cramping issue is due to IBS and my body not wanting alcohol at ALL anymore. I was a binge drinker when I was younger, but now just occasionally drink. Think I will stop altogether. But the bi-gawking is another issue and one I guess I will just have to live with. Maybe it DOES have something to do with the diaphragm. I was a singer when I was younger and used my diaphragm with breathing/singing and also whenever I would get the "normal" hiccups- they were ALWAYS very violent and loud and would not stop for a LONG time. So possibly it is something to do with a faulty diaphragm and with age, stress, alcohol and gastritis- it all comes together with a mighty "BI-GAWK!" ???? Okay, I have admitted WAY too much info about myself here and will be going now. :)
signed: "Hello, my name is _______ and I'm a bi-gawkoholic..."

[Jana8056]

I am so relieved I am not the only one that does this. I have been having these things for about 3 years now.  I never know when I am going to do it until I do it and it is so embarrassing.  I tend to look around to see if anyone heard me because it is really loud.  I work at a hospital and a couple of the nurses seem to think I do it on purpose for attention.  Now why would I do that.  That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I have asked several doctors what causes this and they do not know.  One of the nurses has went so far as to write me up unless I get a doctors note saying that I cannot help it.  They want me to see if I have torrets syndrome or something.  It is ridiculous. If anyone cane make me feel  better I would sure appreciate it. I have had my gallbladder out and I thought that would stop it but it hasn't.
Jana Galaviz
Oklahoma

[marymagdeline]

Hi, I'm a nutritionist.  Not a dr.  So I don't know what is causing your problems.  Although I feel for you greatly.  I would highly recommend you find a holistic dr that can do a test called a Heidelberg Gastrogram (google this).  It's a very easy test to take and completely accurate.  Also, you say lactose makes it worse.  People with gall bladder problems not only have symptoms when they eat greasy foods like french fry's and peanut butter, but when they eat saturated fat, like meat (cow, pig, poultry, etc.) and dairy products.  Try eating fish instead of meat and avoid all dairy.  Try soy milk instead of cow's milk ( I like "Silk" brand.  I even use "Silk" coffee creamer in my coffee every morning and love it.)  And of course, eat lots of whole grains (i.e. whole wheat bread, oatmeal, brown rice, etc.) beans (as in bean soups), vegetables (steamed, stir-fried, grilled and raw as in salads) and fresh fruit.  I had a friend years ago who was always clearing his throat.  Every 60 seconds he had a light, small, blech.  When he went on the diet out lined here, it went away.  When he went off it and started eating processed, packaged foods and lots of meat and dairy again, it came back.  Good luck!

[Laniebobanie]

Hey everyone, I have odd hiccups all the time that people think are sneezes, so I am constantly blessed throughout the day. so annoying. My doctor told me it was probably a hiatus hernia, and from reading about different symptoms, it sounds about right. Not sure what I'm doing to fix it other than elevating myself at a 40 degree angle when laying down sometimes.

[M_aaaaaaa]

I have recently been experiencing similar problems as everyone else here, only a couple of months but I am sick to death of it.
For the past few years i had quite bad heartburn, especially at night, soliva building up in my mouth and a horrible burning sensation in my throat. I took no medication to solve this as it only occured now and again. However around 2-3 months ago i started having spells of constant belching but put it down to simply drinking too many fizzy drinks. Now not only do i burp, but I have started hiccuping aswell in these spells, farting, a bloated stomach and a horrible "lump" in my throat. Doctor put me on omniprozale or something like that, which seemed to do v little,  i tried rennies and gaviscon with no joy.
I have a couple of theories why i suddenly start up again, and put it down to either,   smoking (only 2-3 a day),   certain bread,   potatoes,  milk or butter,  something in tap water,  foods/drink with citric acid  or  stress.  
I really hope its not down to what im eating because im a really fussy eater and can only eat certain things (mainly meat, potatoes and bread).

I can go to the hospital for some tests but Im curious to see if there is anything i can do just to "calm" this down instead of having every scan.

[Jess906]

im so glad im not the only one, im 18 and have had these hiccups since i was about 14. I visited the doctor then and they told me nothing could be done and was just explained as a twitch in my diaphragm. it happens multiple times daily, especially after ive eaten, but also often randomly, it used to happen in classes and i was sentout once for being accused of attention seeking and distracting others, the teachers didnt believe i couldnt help it....
if anyone finds a cure/solution or  anything that would help id appriciate it, as ive tried altering my diet and didnt find it helped a great deal!

[shellseashell]

I am 18 and have this, tons of people have it, it is usuall genetic. And is recessive. it is NOTHING to worry about.