burping

[yaoyao]

There were a lot of discussions from people with persistent burping in 2005. I have similar symptoms. I wonder any useful treatment/remedy was reported? Please help.  


This discussion is related to burping.

[Ghezal]

It has been a good year that i have had these sypmtoms and episodes:

1. burping...lots
2. chest pain in and around my heart...so bad that i thought it was a heart attack and went to the ER.  Had stress tests and several EKGs...all normal - thank god.
3. Feel dull, numbing muscle pain on my upper back (behind my heart) and around my heart area.
4. random squeezing heart pain...lasts seconds but scary as hell and hurts.
5. random left arm tingling/numbing.

any advice? suggestions?

My doc has scheduled me to do an MRI (brain, cervics and thorasic next week).  I will keep you all updated.

[iatm69]

I started excessive burping almost 7 years ago.  It happens throughout the day and I too feel the pressure in the upper stomach.  And about six months ago my intestines started growling.  Now if I eat breakfast, dairy or not, they will growl all morning.  I have a computer job so sit all day long and really think this issue is somehow related or exaggerated due to having a sedentary job in a sitting position.  I find that during the weekend when I am active I don't have the growling.  I still have the burping but is lessened.  What I have found that helps is doing crunches or situps.  I have not changed my diet significantly but the situps do seem to help the pressure buildup in the rib triangle area and reduce the burping.

[ccxiao]

My burping started 2 years ago and I couldn't understand why.  I tried hard to think what I did different then that would cause the burping and I think it was because of milk. At the time I started a new job requiring me to sit infront of a computer all day.  To get myself off the chair I would go and buy coffee at least once a day.  When my coffee drinking habit become more regular that's when my burping started.  I would burp until I gag and throw up, and it's been like this ever since.

Funny enough, I don't burp during 2 holiday trips in China and I think it was because I didn't drink coffee (not a strong coffee drinking culture over there).  My burping continues during my trips to NZ and Malaysia, and I noticed I did drink coffee during these trips.  But all this are just my suspicion... I have yet sought medical advice for confirmation.

I should really cut out my coffee (and therefore milk intake) for a period to see if the burping stops.....

[sbvcrn]

I, like everybody else here, have burping, belch issues but mine is slightly different.  I need desperately to burp at times.  This has been going on a while.  I have been on omeprazole for over a year...only because I was told anybody taking daily aspirin should be on it (didnt have acid reflux).  I would like to stop but understand it is very difficult to do.  Cant decide whether to try it right now.  I feel as if there is an obstruction between the bottom of my esophagus and stomach (I guess the LES).  Had an endoscopy a couple of weeks ago and all is fine BUT things are much worse.  Even eating small amounts leaves me with a feeling of something there.  Belching and burping help.  Carbonated beverages help me a lot as they bring on the burping.  I do not burp/belch much normally.  Can an endoscopy show if one has hiatal hernia or does one need an upper GI or barium swallow?  I have not been back to the gastrologist because he was somewhat condesending when my endoscopy was just fine...and now to go back and tell him things are worse.  Can endoscopy (btw I also had dilation) make things worse?  I, too, am worse lying down with anything in my stomach.  I am best when I am up and about but cant be all the time as have pretty bad arthritis.  I think part of it is positional...maybe a kink?  Driving bothers me, tight clothes, belts, etc.  I go around with my pants unbuttoned a lot of the time.  Think I will try the ginger as cant hurt.  Also wonder if maybe my pH is too low.  I know as one gets older the pH frequently goes down.  I'm joining the club!

[dpacker]

It's a bit of a relief to see that there are others who have this problem, but also frustrating to see that so many people have not found solutions, even though many doctor visits. I'm 38 and female. It started for me at the end of last year. At first it was just the heaviness (felt like I had rocks in my stomach) and the slightly odd breathing (as if you have a cold and there's a restriction). After a while, the constant burping and gas came into play. At first I thought it was because I was eating a lot better (cut out processed and canned foods and started eating more fresh and frozen veggies; I also started monitoring sodium). My doc said that those things should have made it better, not worse. With just talking to me, he said I must have GERD and prescribed Prilosec.Those actually helped me. It took it away completely, but I recently read an article about Prilosec that made me stop taking them. It also suggested that Prilosec was not intended for GERD in the first place, if that's truly the problem. Mine went away for a few months, but I could slowly feel it coming back when I stopped with the Prilosec. Today I'm back to stomach feeling like rocks, the breathing as if I have a slight cold, lower back pain, the burping, and feeling like I have gas in my stomach.

The one thing I see most from reading two of the threads on this forum is that most of us seem to have desk jobs, with a few exceptions. Even for those that exercise a lot (I exercise less when it gets really warm outside), we sit a lot during the day. Maybe that really could have something to do with it.

I read that a natural alternative to Prilosec is ginger, so I'm willing to try that to see if it works. How frustrating though. Thanks to everyone for all of your posts. As I said, it's a relief and frustrating at the same time.

[Tobyred]

My Mom has excessive burping.  Just finished colonoscopy and endo-scopy and ultrasound.  Waiting for results.
But - she was told to stop her daily Activia yogurt.   Has anyone else heard about Activia causing burping problems?

Tobyred