Jabba! I am have the exact same problem. You described it perfectly. I've been trying to burp for 2 weeks! I am really hoping that it has something to do with sinuses. I know i've posted late but let me know if you find out anything.

Rta

Well, I went to my doctor. She claims it's probably something gastric: I skip breakfast every day which creates excess acid in my empty stomach, which then creates excess gas. However, I really don't think that this is the explanation for the problem. I've started eating more every day, and am taking medication for it (though it's for irritable bowel syndrome, which I clearly don't have, so god knows why). I have a vague feeling that it's perhaps some form of throat spasm, or lax throat muscles, which work constantly in preparation of a belch, though the stuff that passes out isn't actually "gas", but air.


I'm going to se my doctor in a week or so to update them on the progress of the medication etc, and i'll tell them what I think. If I get any results, i'll drop you a note. Likewise,

I have the same problem. Did you get an answer, please let me know, I am going crazy with this thing. I have been to the Dr. And had every test on my digestive system done know to man, the only thing I got out of it was a great big bill. I have always told the Dr. I felt like it was my throat, it started after I had surgery in jan 05.

Nope, still no luck regarding it :o(

Ok, just got an email from another guy about this: :arrow:

"read about your throat problem on ehealth. I've been reading story after story of people having the same or similar symptoms and noone has found a cure or even the cause.
Sorry to say I havn't found anything either. I'm writing in hopes that you have found something. Please let me know if you have.
I have had mine only a month and a half, been to the Dr., given anti-biotics, went to the ent clinic and got a nose probe. Nothing. Also told it had something to do with acid reflux and she increased my dosage. What if it is the medicine that is causing these throat problems. That seems to be when mine started, a couple months after I began taking prilosec.
Anyway, wish I had some good news."

interesting indeed. Perhaps this is very much a new problem which has quietly arisen and gone unnoticed, assumed to be lesser, more familiar problems. If anyone reads this and actually knows any decent doctors who can get a throat-probe done (i.E. With a fiber optic camera etc), that'd be absolutely great...There's not much way we could convince anyone of the realness of the problem, nor the fact that it's something new, unless they see the throat for themselves.

I've had the same problem for a week. I have not been able to eat real food, only popsicles, pudding, ice cream. My throat feels tense, and it feels like I have a lump in the back of my throat. I've tried eating normal food, and it feels like it gets stuck right after I swallow, and I have to rush and drink water.

I have been to an ear, nose, & throat doc. He did not find anything. Said it must be acid reflux. Put me on nexium. Still no relief

Hmmm...Interesting, so all the doctors seem to dismiss this as some sort of acid reflux, or variation thereof. May I just ask; have any of you suffered any other consistent throat problems before? Also, are any of you asthmatic? I am myself, and it wouldn't surprise me if the asthma off-set some adverse throat-muscle reaction to something we have all experienced, perhaps.

Lewis