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excessive belching

Okay, I belch NONSTOP. Hundreds of times a day. I have had tests for ulcers, an upper GI, a CA125, colonoscopy, pelvic ultrasound...NOTHING! I have been on Mylanta, Malox, previcid, Prilosec, Aciphex, Dicyclomine, Xanax ect...I am NOT under stress (except for THIS)I have fasted, cut out sugar, caffeine, carbs, processed foods, gas causing foods, dairy ect...to NO AVAIL. This is NOT IBS. Recently I have new symptoms of not being able to fully empty my bladder (via ultrasound). There are no cysts that show up on the ultrasound and I am going to a urologist soon. (I don't see how the peeing problem could possibly be related). I started losing weight I think cuz I a AFRAID to eat! I am nauseated most of the time. I do not have cramping diarhea or constipation. Eating doesn't even cause it really! I wake up to excesive belching without eating a bite!
Does anyone know what the heck is wrong with me?
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I can't help but notice all these people asking the people with the problem, if they are "swallowing air".  Yeah right.. Like we just woke up one day, and started swallowing a bunch of air.   Do YOU swallow air?     This is just a stupid thing doctors (and ignorant people)  throw out when they don't know what causes the belching.
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I , like all of you, suddenly became a member of 1000 Belches a Day Club.  Scared me badly. Found this board. Scared me to death. Began reading and rereading. Developed a plan for me and an additional suggestion for the "barking members."
I noticed that there is a follow-up or Update section. I believe this is imperative everyone has the basic same problem which gets repeated--had this test,  tried this supplement, asking doc about.  To save others the Redo trouble, especially if your attempt was fruitless, we need to post the outcomes.
A plan. First I decided this is now, to my horror, a way of life.  So how best to live with it?  I gleaned the most logical and reasonable explanation for this condition as being a Crashed Digestive system.  Then I wrote a plan of attack. Decide on my first treatment regime--probiotics, digestive enzymes, chlorophyll, and slippery elm taken  as directed on the bottle.
Second. Begin adding and eliminating items from my diet. Meals will be every hour or so and will be comprised of one item. Thus no guess work for In or Out.  Later I can begin to combine ingredients through this additive process.  Find a food which can/does abate the belching--on wives found is all natural pop/fruit circles.
Third. Nothing but organic passes these lips. Don't try every supplement ever discovered or invented. Those manufactures lie too.  Avoid changes in my diet regime unless thoroughly thought out and investigated. Be sure adequate I am meeting nutritional need since quantity of intake is so greatly lessened.
OMG. I cannot believe that people are having organs removed on a desperate hunch!  DON'T
One of the reason I believe this condition is not being solved by the medical establishment is that they are trying something completely new by placing it in an established rubric/starting point.for example:  these three symptoms are a result of this and are remedied by this.    What we have is caused by.completely different circumstances, a and even though
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great plan, how did it work out for you??
I would love to hear...
diet, natural herbal supplements, digestive enzymes, probiotics, natural antibiotics, pepsin ccl, etc etc, don't do anything for me....
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Thanks, I'm going to try this. It makes sense, especially if there is bacterial or fungal overgrowth.
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Please do not type in all caps. It is considered "yelling" on the Internet and is extremely rude. Most people will not even bother to read what you have to say if it's entered in all caps. I'm not saying this to be mean - I assume you don't know this or you wouldn't do it.
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Sounds like indigestion, perhaps the digestive energy is not flowing down, food staying in stomach too long. Could be caused from too much stress, fear etc. smaller portions, chewing well, eating slow and always before 7pm. Because emotions effect us and are on an energetic level, it can be effective to treat imbalances from the same level

Try searching your symptoms twitch TCM, traditional Chinese medicine, or Ayurveda, you will get better information on how to correct the imbalance. Of course always better to see a TCM or Ayurveda practitioner. There is a way to balance every condition.
Good luck
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I have been going to bed and waking up with sever burping sells for years.  I started taking three Magnesium (Homeopathic/ Hyland's #8 Mag. Phos. 6x)  - My husband takes it for extreme leg cramps & I thought I'd try it.  It really helps calm the burps down so I can sleep, but I still believe that the burping is a symptom of some kind of illness. Can't help but think it is food related so I'm trying to eliminate certain foods, to see if it improves.  
I don't have any answers yet, but the magnesium really helps with my night attacks of the burps.  
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