Anxiety symptom...burping?

When u are anxious you tend to swallow more air, so yes anxiety does cause more gasses. Try to deep breath and keep your mind busy as much as possible. Hope this helped. Feel better soon.

Oslooskar...if you don't mind me asking some details...do you seem to belch throughout the day even when not eating? Is it a lot? How long has it been going on? I can't help being worried that something else is causing this. It seemed to start out of nowhere for me.

Yes!  Definitely.  No doubt.  And you betcha!

Sometimes the burps come from what feels like such a deep place, I almost feel like I'm going to heave.

When my anxiety is high, I notice I eat faster, and in doing that, I swallow air (literally "inhaling food" I guess).

Drinking,...I drink a great deal of water, and if I "gulp" excessively, it's a trigger.

Avoiding drinking doesn't help,-- not only unhealthy, but the acids build up and your burps get irritating.

You're not alone.

M.

Hi dmarie725, I have had my problem with belching since June of 2012 when my anxiety started. So as of this writing it's been seventeen months. However, there has been a steady decline in my anxiety level since the beginning of October and with it has come a lessening of my problem with belching.

I don't know where you live or what health plan you have but I suggest that you take some anxiety classes if at all possible as they can be very helpful.

Hi if I may chime in here, I belch through out the day everyday for over a year. I was 1st told it was all due to anxiety.

Then I started losing wt (ended up losing a total of 50lbs) and my gut started to hurt so bad I would be curled up in a fetal position for hours. Popping pepto bismol constantly.

Finally saw a GI last May, had endoscopy with biopsy and found I had H-pylori!!!! They also ran c-t scans of abd., blood tests, you name it I had it.

so had to go on triple antibiotic therapy for 14 days.

was still belching and pain, had a hydrogen breath test...was found to have Small intestinal bacteria overgrowth!!! Back on antibiotics for 2 weeks

Now according to the retesting, both infections have been eradicated, yet my gut still hurts as it always has and I still belch constantly.

does your gut rumble and make a lot of noise too?

I believe that you should go back to GI and have some more looks into the gut problem and then if there truly is nothing there you will know.

I do know that when my anxiety is flaring (which lately is daily) I do burp more. but along with the burping is a hurting gut!!

So now they say I have IBS and Fibromyalgia due to these infections!!! Great, God come back NOW!!!!

Hi dmarie725, I really didn’t count the number of times I belched when my condition was at its worst, but it was quite significant. And, yes, I did see a doctor years ago when I had a previous episode of belching. In that case, however, it seems to have been related not so much to anxiety as it was to the overly strenuous exercise that I was engaging in at that particular time. Apparently it caused the muscles surrounding my trachea to tighten up which made me very uncomfortable because I could actually feel a pocket of air trapped in my windpipe (Trachea). Anxiety, so I am told, can also cause those very same muscles to tighten and thus create the very same condition.

Have you considered the possibility of taking an anti-anxiety drug to see if it will have any effect on your belching? If it does, then you can be pretty sure your condition is anxiety related.

Hi Laurelsantos,

I hope you find something that works for you. Have you talked to your doctor about the problem?

This thread is 10 years old so I don't know if anybody else will post. I hope you get some answers.

Welcome to the forum...

Hugs, Karen...