Yukky sulphur burps: advice needed (warning, yukky)

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Afternoon

Does anyone else here get a weird tummy problem which results in whiffs sulphur burps from deep down in your gut? I’m not talking about a smelly food belch, this is like the smell of pure rotten eggs.

It’s not accompanied by diahorrea or vomiting, but I have been sick with it before. It seems to link in with my menstrual cycle and I’ve had it since I was about 17.

It can vanish for years but I’ve had about 5 bouts this year alone. It really zaps my energy and makes me feel gross.

Question

Does this sound familiar and if you get it what is it, how do you treat it and how can you avoid it?

I’m not coeliac, I don’t have IBS, I’m not gluten intolerant, it’s not heartburn and gaviscon, peppermint oil, tums etc do feck all.

It’s a mystery. A twenty year old mystery!

Oh, you have my sympathy! I used to get that all the time in my teens. It’s truly vile and the only thing that ever makes me vomit (cast iron stomach in general).
Never got to the bottom of it and GP never bothered to investigate, but the one thing I found that helped a little bit was Pepto-Bismol (as you say, other indigestion remedies do sod all). Though that may just be because it tastes even more disgusting than the sulphur burps. Hope you feel better soon. I’d be really interested to know if anyone has had this formally diagnosed or knows what it is?

DH gets these, it’s notmally when he’s just generally unwell/viral. Never really worked out why.

Thank you @tempi23 funny - I had them baddddddd when I was a teen. My period didn’t start until I was 17. Rancid guts every month from the age of 15.

Gonna pick up some Pepto Bismol. One of the ones not tried yet.

@CustardOmelet does it happen when he’s stressed? We are ttc/selling our house/trying to plan where to move next/waiting for our contracts at work to be renewed.

Oh and we have two DC under three.

LOTS. OF. STRESS.

When I was travelling it was known as a symptom of this

www.nhs.uk/conditions/giardiasis/

Alca seltzer helped me. I’ve not had them in a long while but used to suffer a lot. I have IBD though so thought it was linked to that - although consultants have never seemed concerned when I mentioned it.

If it’s giardiasis then it kinda fits through as I’ve got all the symptoms bar weight loss (if only).

I just can’t shake the menstrual link. I’m due on, I can feel the yukky cramps and I’ve done a -ve pg test.

Adding alka seltzer to the shopping list.

I still get kinda hungry you know and I’m not not eating IYSWIM. Starving it almost makes me feel even worse.

I occasionally get this when I’m stressed, like I am about to come down with a tummy bug but it doesn’t get any worse than just burps. I thought it was Metformin (diabetes medication) that caused it because I don’t remember it happening before I started taking it.

Good luck with the Pepto Bismol. IME, you’ll still burp, but it’ll taste of milk of magnesia rather than egg/sulphur.

I've had this. I'd also get trapped wind right down past my stomach it felt like. I'd then end up with sickness and/or diarrhoea. When I was sick it would come up with a load of air. Used to really knock me out energy wise.
Thought it was food related but couldn't pin it down. Not had an attack for ages now.
Pepto Bismol was the only thing that helped me.
Sorry not much help but know how you feel.

I sometimes get this, I drink a pint of warm water with three teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda in and it really helps. It’s tastes absolutely awful though.

I've had this a couple of times. It's always been when I've been recovering from a virus of some sort.
You have my sympathies, it's gross.

No Pepto anywhere; Gaviscon aplenty but no PB.

Bollocks.

I've only ever has this once and within a few hours I had begun to expel my entire digestive system, at some pace and volume until there was absolutely nothing left.

It’s happened to me in that way before @AveABanana but it’s getting less pukey as the years pass.

Very appropriate user name OP

I know, I know

Yes!!! Have t had it in years but it’s awful when you have it. My GO suggested gastroparesis - with unknown cause. Basically the stomach stops digesting, the food starts to ferment, hence the burps. I was prescribed motilium to speed up digestion when it starts.
I used to get it a lot in my teens. After a few years, I’d just sort of know it was coming. I’d feel out of sorts in a weird way for a day, then the burps would come.... then I’d usually get D&v

Have had this after d&v before.
A decent probiotic might help?

It might be giardiasis. It would be reasonable to consult your GP about this.

That. Right fucking there @Borisinajohnson

It’s like I can feel my digestion has ground to a halt and everything you are saying fits; the fermented aspect.

I remember the very first time I had it was after is made fairy cakes in Home Ecomomics and my mum suspected my stomach had “curdled” the mix I’d eaten. She may have been more bang on than I thought.

Re probiotics, one more bout of this crap this year and I will be starting acidophilus

Sulphur burps are horrible, my sympathies! They can be fairly quickly dealt with if they're just indigestion (rather than part of a stomach bug) - I tend to find they appear if I've laid down too soon after a meal. Mix a flat teaspoon of bicarb with a glass of warmish water, that usually deals with it. You may need two glasses, but I usually find one will do if I take it the minute the burps show up.

Obviously only follow this if you know you have no other contraindications, especially if you need to be low salt.

I get these when I have a gall bladder attack. Never been officially diagnosed but had a huge amount of pain and vomiting once whilst with a friend who was a gp and she diagnosed gall bladder from the way I was presenting. No sign of stones in scan but that didn't rule it out. I tend to get extremely bloated and have a lot of pain high up, I then throw up this STUFF (sorry) that doesn't look like vomit, more like stinking solid fluff.
I sometimes have the sulphur burps and they go away without an attack. It tends to be after I have eaten fatty food or nuts.

Or, having read the above thread, maybe not and it is something else?

Honestly, I can't believe some of the things I actually put on here. Sorry for the oversharing, I am just quite excited that it is not just me.

I had this too but not regular.
. Agree with food not braking down.

Try a fast day, kefir, miso products.. Whole grains.. Lots of water

If I ever meet you @Borisinajohnson I owe you a pint, a unicorn and as many tacos as you want.

There is a direct link between gastroparesis and tachycardia, and I have the latter.

Fuck me. Never in my puff did I think a heart condition could explain this thing. And I think I need to go see the GP as my cardiologist might need to know about that.

Thank you, thank you for posting x

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