Rotten egg burps

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I am a 55 year old woman in excellent health. I have had only 2 days off work since 1972, one of them because of my first episode of rotten egg burps. I don't smoke, drink very little alcohol, and the only other liquids I drink are tea and water. I am average weight and very fit for my age and eat a very healthy diet. About 30 years ago when my kids were little, I took them into the city just before Xmas to shop and for lunch I had half a Scotch egg. It seemed OK at the time. Then about 2 days later, as we were driving in the car on our summer camping holiday (this is New Zealand here!), I started burping rotten egg smells. The family thought it was a joke and laughed their heads off but it was absolutely putrid. Those burps lasted for 2-3 weeks but I had no other symptoms at all. At the time I put it down to the Scotch egg I had eaten and thought that it might've been a bit "off", although it tasted OK at the time. Fast forward 25 years and one day the burps come back. I wake up about 4 am from a deep sleep, tummy rumbling and squirming something awful and I had about 4-5 hours of nasty diarrhoea and felt **** but nothing else. Took it easy for the rest of the day, didn't eat much for a couple of days, and it went away.  Since then I've had 3 more attacks, several months/years apart, all following the same pattern. I have done a bit of research about it and they all say it is nothing to do with eggs but in my case I'm not so sure.  In 4 out of the 5 episodes, I have eaten eggs from somewhere other than my own home. (I don't eat a lot of eggs anyway.) Yesterday for lunch I had hard boiled egg in a leftover salad from dinner the night before which was very fresh and not "off". Today's episode would be the mildest one yet. The burps started at the same time as waking up at 4 am to rush to the bathroom, not several hours beforehand as before. I am still feeling a bit fragile (it is nearly 10 am on Saturday morning) but have had a piece of toast and cup of tea and think I am over the worst of it. However, interested in what other people have to say?


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