Chronic Belching!!! Please Help

My story is similar to likehome's story.

Chronic belching, bloating, dull ache in shoulder blades, sometimes sternum pain, sometimes excruciating lower back pain (not kidney pain I am used to feeling from kidney stones).

After many tests, they did a HIDA and found my GB to be functioning at 21%. (Normal is a result over 35%). According to my friend who works in another state doing HIDA's the dosage of the CCK injection given to me was almost 5 times the amount SHE would have administered. Her hospital bases the dosage on weight. Mine was not based on weight. So, that could mean my 21% is actually 'worse' than that depending on who you ask LOL

Anyways, I am scheduled for removal of the GB on the 15th. My u/s showed no stones, no inflammation, no abnormalities of the GB whatsoever but it is obviously 'sick' in some regard. I am anxious to get the pathology report that is for sure!!!

They 'say' gallbladder issues usually happen to those in the '4-F' category. Female. Fair. Forty. Fluffy.

I am female, 39, fair but not fluffy :)

Good Luck everyone!
-Beth-

James: any updates?

The surgery went o.k. Two days later, I was belching again. Talk about frustrating! I had my follow-up with the surgeon on the 23rd. She suggested I start taking the Prevacid again now that my gb is gone. I started yesterday and didn't notice a difference all day. I took a pill this morning and have noticed a slight improvement. I hope it continues to improve but then the question becomes 'what is going on in my stomach to cause the belching but can be relieved with Prevacid'?

She wanted to do an upper GI but I told her I wanted my body to heal a little bit. I go back in a month. I will update again then.

-Beth-

Hi.Just wondering did anybody find out there problems as I'm having symptoms since last march.Thanks

I have a similar issue that I have mentioned on another board. I have not had surgery to repair my GERD and I also have a confirmed sliding HH. I have this similar belching issue, but not as bad. It's a cross between a hiccup and a burp and I can't control it. I have gotten much better at recognizing it's coming and then open my mouth enough to just let the belch / hiccup happen on it's own without any throat resistance (being a closed mouth, chewing, etc).

I find that this happens more to me after I drink or eat anything, and I have a feeling that it is a HH issue with me. I had these same spasms before I had bad GERD and they happened when I wasn't ready for them. I found that they really hurt in my diaphragm area. Probably what caused my HH in the first place.

I mentioned this to my GI and she said it's common. I didnt realize how much this happens in a day until I had to do the log for my 24hr ph test. When I was writing the log, I must of had a full page and a half of these burp/ hiccups. This reaction is always the same. Burp and then hick up a millisecond after. It's so annoying.

There was another post not too long ago that talked about this too. Look it up as I think it was from acidrefluxman.

All the best,

Chris

I have this same belching problem. I had it before having GB surgery 2 years ago and after! I also had HPylori and they treated it and a parasite...all clear now. Now with any gluten (even the smallest amount) I get heartburn (really burning around my heart), burning above my ribs/below breasts and BELCHING. It seems I am either gluten intolerant or have full blown Celiac disease. Still trying to get a diagnosis. Gluten sensitivity is definitely something I would advise you to look into with these symptoms. An easy thing to do for yourself; cut all gluten for a couple of weeks. (beware, it's hidden in almost everything that isn't fresh).

Post Edited (_lady_) : 1/7/2013 3:36:21 PM (GMT-7)

Hi,
I too am belching all day. It started about 3 months I have had endoscopy, MRI with contrast, sibog breath test, ultrasound. So far all negative. No gull stones, no heliobacter. I was taking kefir for. A couple weeks when it started. Anybody have any ideas? So far I will look into hid a scan and giardia.
Luis

Hey,

I don't burp as much as you guys, but I was able to cut my 50 burps a day down to like 25 by taking baclofen though.

Hi James,

have you tried to test your stomach acid?
Or support your stomach acid creation (or take supplements)? Maybe it is just too low...
?
I'm basically having the same problem as you and considering this option...

Post Edited (JAENSK) : 6/27/2013 2:39:54 PM (GMT-6)

Stomach acid test
http://www.phcapsule.com/
The test is not available in country where I live.

Aciphex is a proton pump inhibitor it actually does the opposite (lowering down your stomach acid). Prilosec is about the same thing.
You could have some kind of fermentation process in your stomach due to low acid level (so bad germs are not killed by acid).

And what about food intolerances, allergies? Pancreatic enzymes?

Dont relay on food intolerances usually an allergologist skip quite a lot of them...
Have you read about fructose malabsorption?
http://scdlifestyle.com/2010/09/why-fructose-malabsorption-causes-gas-cramping-and-diarrhea-and-how-to-bea-it/
just a thought... None of my doctors (4) have ever heard about it...

Ok. I spent ALOT of time on these forums looking for solutions to my burping problem and after finally finding a cure (for myself at least) I felt compelled to share in hopes that I could help someone else.  My story: 36 years old, healthy body, healthy eater.  One day I wake up and I burp ALL THE TIME. As soon as I wake up and as I am going to bed.  Always burping.  No matter what I ate, I burped.  I burped even when I didn't eat.  I burped every few seconds.  I could hide it mostly but it was SO irritating.  I went to a couple of doctors and they said "maybe heartburn" but I had no other symptoms.  No stomach pain, no heart burn, nothing.   So I refused to go on the drugs.  I did try some grapeseed concentrate which is supposed to be a natural antibiotic but anyways, nothing worked.  This went on for 7 months.  THEN... I was at a seminar at work that was about reducing stress and the trainer starts talking about breathing and how many people breathe too shallow and don't use their diaphragm at all.  So she had us breath really REALLY deep, like where you exit all the breath out of your lungs before you breathe in again and then you fill your lungs all the way up. I did this like 10 times in the seminar and the burping stopped.  Later on that day the burping started up again and I did the breathing again and it stopped it again.  That was about 2 months ago and I am happy to say that I only need to do the breathing exercise like once every 3 days or so.  I can't explain how this worked for me.  I don't understand how shallow breathing can cause a person to burp a lot. And why it would happen all the sudden like that to me.  It does not make sense.  But it has helped me with a very irritating condition and I'm hoping it can help someone else too. :)

I just tried what lealyn said. I too have had this issue for well over a year. It's caused sleepless nights, dizziness, and a plethora of other very troubling issues, to say nothing of the inconvenience of the burping itself.

I pictured doctors visits aplenty, surgery, pills, the whole nine yards . . but breathing? I tried breathing as deep as I could ten times, and quickly there was a large reduction in my burping. It's still happening a little bit, but I'll come back and inform the rest of you if it keeps up with more practice.

Could you imagine if all we had to do to fix this was a freakin' breathing exercise?!?! This has been a nightmare!

Edit: I should mention that this *could* mean that our issues are stemming from a hiatus hernia, a stretching of the stomach above the diaphragm, something that could be caused by a weak diaphragm. It's something to look into.

Post Edited (MJMWeb) : 11/11/2013 11:32:47 AM (GMT-7)