I would like to know what's going on with me. History goes like this: I usually wake up one day with lots of belching and start to feel like I have a big stomach... Everything would be fine until I make a strange move and then I have a terrible pain in my back. I think it could be the air in my stomach that travels around and comes behind my ribs in my back, but it is quite violent... sometimes, I cannot sit or stay in one position (normal sitting position). Each time I burp it's going to ease the pain so much... until two minutes later when I feel bloated again... I have not found any parallel yet with any type of food that I eat since I never know in advance when the crisis is going to occur. I might actually notice some relationship with constipation... I have been treated for that when I was younger by the way, with laxatives.

I have had an Upper GI that came out negative six months ago. I have been taking Zantac and Nexium, but I cannot tell if it helped or if I just never had a crisis just because... And I don't like the idea of diagnosis something by taking medicine and see if it works, so I stopped it. I have a pretty stressful life (well, maybe that's how I make it:)) and I assumed I was constipated. So I started the natural way by paying attention to eating lots of fibers. It seemed to work and then I went for a really important and stressful business trip. When I came back last week, I started a severe cold (nothing related to constipation of course, ha!) and I started a mini-belching/stomach pain crisis that seems under control yesterday. I did not get a chance to pay attention to the fibers during that trip so I wanted to know if that provoked the crisis. I can live with paying attention to fibers, but it seems hard to believe that if I forget to do so for less than a week, I am going to pay the consequences of it for sure... Saying that, I would like to know if I should worry about getting an endoscopy and coloscopy?

Thanks for you help guys... Digestion problems are not fun and can poison life no matter how small they are:)