trying to belch/burp to relieve bubble stuck feeling for hours instead of being able to do things i love

[mojo_giorgio]

thank you for reading this.

i am sooo excited to see if i can make a career out of graphic design, ive gotten so good at it! also i want to meet people, have good relationships and enjoy life... but at this point most of my day is spent on me trying to belch out the air.

i've spent at leasts a couple of thousand dollars in total on consultations, tests, gastroscopies, CT and mri scans, pills... but i realized that these won't give any result because doctors here are not taking issue close to heart and trying to actually make any change in my situation, rather they're just doing their job.

time has come where i am in a tough financial situation, so i was hoping at least i can do freelance design from home and make a buck to investigate my health problems further, but condition itself stops me from even doing that.

every day i've accepted that i will spend hours on these exercises that have been helping me in past, that i am going to keep doing them and will have at least an hour to do design work and maybe get some progress so that i can continue invastigating, but this day doesn't seem to come..

in past i would take famotidine and it would help me within a minute or two, i would try to belch/burp and air would come out and the tight bubble stuck feeling from chest would dissolve. now sometimes i take 6 pills of 20mg famotidine altogether and it has no effect at all... i guess my body got used to it.

if i could have even slight improvement and somehow belch/burp out the air sooner, i would dedicate remaining time to doing work and help myself get back on my feet, but now all time is spent on me struggling just to be able to eat food next day, which sometimes im not even able to do, because bubble feeling stuck in chest will increase and i will have to struggle 2x or 3x more hours.

i've worked on myself to be spiritually strong, but even now having gone through things, i am having tough time not break mentally from this every day jail.. these horrible feeling of something stuck in my esophagus and chest and unable to relieve it.. as if somebody is pushing their finger hard into my throat, my esophagus and in the middle of ribs above stomach..

hardest part is when i struggle and struggle doing exercises which helped in past and realize they are not working and i spent hours of time and energy only to stay in same condition..

when i am in such situation, i sometimes open up youtube and try to just shift focus to that, because if i try to do any work in this situation, it makes me desperate..

also there is abuse happing in my family and im in tough situation and i can not allow myself to be desperate, so i have to kind of drift my mind away and tune out of this horrible thing of an apple slice stuck in my esophagus every day, for weeks, months and years already. it has been at least 8 years with each year situation getting worse and worse..

i kept spirit with my and i am able to channel love, happiness and beautiful things in myself and share with another person, but i am afraid i will slowly break and just start getting more and more desperate from such tough routine every day which doesnt seem to end or give me chance to end it..

all i know about my condition from examinations and observations are these:

1. i am severly bloated (and has been like this for years). when i went for fibroscan of my liver last time, doc said she had to use specific equipment she uses for obese people cause it's hard to see their liver. i am skinny but she said she had to use it because of how bloated i am.. she said i am catastrophically bloated, exactly quoting.

2. i have sliding hiatal hernia and cant lean forward to pick up anything from ground (i have to crouch) because if i do, i will feel nauseous immediately.

3. even though first my problems started with intestinal bloating which gave me huge discomfort and i had to rub belly so that gas came out, then problems went higher where now i had to try to burp air out. afterwards this was followed by swallowing problem and if i didnt generate enough inertia to swallow and kind of forced it, i started having feeling like as if my throat broke in some place and would physically hurt for few hours. i had this only when drinking pills, so i would hit onto my abdomen when drinking the pill which kind of helped me to generate momentum to swallow it (i dont know how but this would help).

then same thing started happening with swallowing food or liquid, especially it is difficult to swallow liquid because it's lighter in weight. i still do the hit-onto-abdomen to generate momentum and try to swallow each gulp like that, but problem is even if i try to do it like i used to in past, my i get instantly bloated anyways. immediately i have stronger sensation of air bubble stuck in esophagus and it wont come out.

in this state i cant even swallow my own saliva, because it is light also. so i use napkins to just gather saliva and throw them away..

4. strange thing with bloating is that even now it will happen as a reflex if i sit close to something cold. my belly starts making alien noises.

when trying to belch also before burp comes out, when i kind of try to slightly force the burp, if something changes in esophagus it makes frog noises, lot of them before another burp happens. and when i burp, smell of food comes up which i might have eaten few hours ago. also if i recently drank liquid, when burping literally liquid has come up. eg. if i try to belch after drinking tea, lot of times tea has come back up instead of burping.

5. i am unable to breath through mouth. even if i take slight breath through mouth, immmediately i get intense sensation bubble stuck in my esophagus and i have to struggle really bad to belch and relieve it so i have learned to optimally breath mildly through nose (specifically right nostril) which helps avoid the sensation happen.

6. recently i started using glucometer to check sugar levels and it is usually between 102 and 134 mg/dl, which is usually a sign of pre-diabetes. i decided to use gluckometer at home, just in case to find if my condition is connected to these levels.

7. poop is clay color always for last few years, and if i eat mashed potatoes it gets so hard i am unable to poop. also since my body is leaning towards constipation, i try to always be on lookout if i feel like going, and i go just to check, to avoid any problems.

8. stress does have big impact on my condition, but unfortunately at this point im unable to avoid stressors and i was hoping maybe i can help my condition and get back on my feet, which will ultimately result in me being able to get away from stressful situation completely.

if anybody has any idea what this could be, would mean so much because at least i will investigate that direction...

thank you if you read this, you are so nice! ❤️

much love

giorgi

[b1b1b1]

You are taking way too much famotidine. Over dosing on a medication is very dangerous. You should speak to a psychiatrist about these problems and trust your medical doctors.

[mojo_giorgio in reply to b1b1b1]

hello! thank you for your concern.. do you think psychiatrist will help, because i've been struggling with air in my guts for years... doctors confirmed i am severely bloated.. can you please explain what did you mean?

[xjrs]

You may find some of the information below of interest:

ibsresearcher.com/gas-bloat...

Additionally, I'm wondering if you are intolerant to some foods from a gut bacterial imabalance. You could try Align probiotic (available in the US, if you are in the US). The bacteria in it may help balance the bacteria in your gut, plus it suppresses gas forming bacteria. If you still have issues after a 3 month trial, you could try the FODMAP elimination and reintroduction diet to find out any remaining food intolerances. Alway try the probiotic first since this may improve food tolerance.

The other thing to note is your hernia which may be having a big effect on your symptoms and may be causing acid reflux:

ibsresearcher.com/acid-reflux/

There is now a new treatment for hernia, but it is for those who match specific criteria:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl...

[mojo_giorgio in reply to xjrs]

thank you so much for writing all this info! i did get stool sample checked but they are saying no imbalance found or parasites or anything.. i checked electrolyte balance and it also says it's fine.

im just trying to see if anyone can understand what could i be dealing with based on symptoms... nowdays everything is exacerbated when i drink water after eating, air bubble gets much more intense in esophagus and also taste chanes in my mouth..

also another thing, after eating breakfast with a jam, an hour later i tested for diabetic glucometer and it says i have 153 mg/dl. usually i have 103-134, never less than 100 even when fasting.

i will look at those researches, thank you for sharing!

much love!

[MatthewU]

I really feel for you, trapped by your own body, but lets see what we can do. You must cut out all carbonated drinks and alcohol, wheat based products, milk, coffee, onions, garlic and tomatoes. Drink warm herbal teas such as ginger, chamomile and peppermint to help the gut calm down. Follow the low Fodmap, don't eat processed foods since they can have lot of additives not good for the gut (you'll have to cook from scratch). Take a good quality multi probiotic suppliment each day at a mealtime. Have a varied diet with plenty of vegetables and eat fermented foods. You may ask your GP for a 10mg dose of Citalopram which will help calm the gut and anxiety. Take some soulful relaxing exercise in the countryside. with good dose of sunshine. None of these these things are going to be a miracle instant cure, but once you start you will see results over course of several weeks and months which will allow you to get on with your life and follow your graphic design future that you so want.

[doris22]

Hi. The fact that famotidine helped would suggest to me you have intolerance to certain foods you are eating. You are never going to get better if you keep eating them. Start a food diary. Start of by cutting out wheat for a week, then dairy. The reason you are getting mucus is your esophagus is it is probably inflamed, and that's what you are feeling stuck in your throat. Ascid reflux can cause so many unpleasant feelings. Anxiety and heart racing. Top of the stomach pains. I am speaking from experience. I had an endoscopy camera down my throat and all was revealed. I hope you can get some help. It is an awful thing to have.

[mojo_giorgio in reply to doris22]

thank you for responding doris! yes that's what it seems like, it is clearly inflamed and im having flare ups daily... and also im thinking to have gastroscopy with general anesthesia, because last time i had it, i felt relieved on that day and my suspicion is that the hose which they used has straightened esophagus or somehow widened the part or something like that so i didnt feel any trouble swallowing food that day or bubble pressure in chest also.. i would do anything to get at least temporary relief from this because i would be able to concentrate on work properly, and once i have a little better financial situation i'd go have more investigations in clinic.

much love!

giorgi

[doris22 in reply to mojo_giorgio]

I was wondering if you felt better after your last endoscopy because you wouldn't have eaten anything before the procedure. I was told there is an antihistamine in Famoidine and that's why it helps with food intolerance. All the best.