Is anyone out there suffering from dyspepsia (chronic indigestion)?

I have been suffering from the worst indigestion/belching for over 1.5 years now... my doc calls it dyspepsia or gastritis.  Other than GERD (which I take Nexium for) and a hiatal hernia that my doc says is not to blame, my EDG looks normal.  I have been suffering from IBS for over 30 years and was diagnosed with UC 2 years ago.  I have tried everything from changing my diet (went on the Fit for Life diet for months with no change) to numerous medications.  Nothing helps, and it doesn't seem to matter what I eat... I suffer off and on all day every day.  Last year after a HIDA scan showed I had an abnormally functioning gallbladder, my doc recommended I have my gallbladder removed.  Well, whatever the problem with my gallbladder, it clearly was not the cause of my stomach problems.  I look forward to anyone's input... I just can't believe there is no solution to my problem... hopefully somone out there has some ideas.

I burp a lot too... and I'm a chick. Yuck!
My parents are really proper and well mannered - as children my sisters and I were not allowed to burp or fart around others. So when my IBS started I got a lot of ugly looks and slaps on the mouth when I couldn't help myself. Now my mom just gives me a lecture on etiquette when she hears me burp.
Anyway, I agree it is gross... But what can we do???

Lots of heartburn, belching, no nausea though.

If you have problems with diarrhea, see a G.I. and ask for Welchol. That's the new thing they are giving people who are post-gall bladder (like me). It binds up the bile that causes the diarrhea. It works great!

Secondly, my G.I.'s N.P. told me that bile acid can go down (causing diarrhea) OR it can go up, causing heartburn. I don't know if the Welchol will help absorb that upper G.I. tract acid as well, but it's worth a shot. That may explain why you still have problems, even though you are on a prescription heartburn med.

If you go back a few pages, you'll find a post I put up (has a yellow caution sign beside it) on heartburn meds that contains a link to a news article on heartburn meds being linked to an increase in cases of c. difficile bacteria, which is very hard to get rid of and causes a lot of pain, gas and diarrhea. Certain heartburn meds are worse than others, so you may want to ask your doctor if he knows about this link between the two and if you should be tested for c. difficile (stool sample).

LOL  Bunny, you're hilarious. 

Be glad you have a man because I don't know how I'm going to get one.    

I am suddenly reminded of that scene in the second Harry Potter book when Ron is burping up slugs and Hagrid tells him "better out than in."

When I had my gall bladder problems, all of my gas got trapped inside and I could neither burp nor poot and boy, when I got to hurting bad, how I wished I could have let something out.  Now that I'm back to something approaching normal, I burp and poot almost as much as a regular person ought to and I really find being able to fart joyous.  LOL!  I went for five years pretty much without being able to, getting to do it now feels like such a relief. 

i read somewhere that the average person farts/burps on average 13 times a day -and if you didn't at all you would literally explode!

i think i must be making up for those who only do so a couple of times a day!

What!?! Only 4 times a year.... That study can't right. If it is I am sooooo jealous.

So I guess the study is right.... I went around the office asking a few people and they said it only happens every several months - so 4 times a year is right. Holy cow!