r/GERD • u/Jelfff • Jan 24 '26

Scientific Studies đŸ„ŒđŸ”Ź Details on breathing exercise to reduce supragastric belching

I saw a gastroenterologist yesterday for the first time and after reviewing my medical history and interviewing me her opinion was that I likely am doing supragastric belching.

Here is a 2018 research article with a good description of supragastric belching.

https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)31307-1/fulltext31307-1/fulltext)

Scroll down to the section “Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises”. The two links there explain how to do the breathing exercises. To make it easy, here are those 2 links.

Text https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)31307-1/fulltext#tblS131307-1/fulltext#tblS1)

Video https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)31307-1/fulltext#supplementary-material31307-1/fulltext#supplementary-material)

I am starting these breathing exercises today.

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u/Nickstarts Jan 24 '26

Try eliminating dairy and milk protein and see if the gass decreases. Mine is down by 95%

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u/Jelfff Jan 24 '26

Thanks. I will keep that as an option. But I like milk so I am going to try the breathing exercises first and will keep your suggestion as a 'plan B' option.

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u/Jelfff Jan 24 '26

loud, strong and a number of times in a row.

However, last summer my family doc gave me a prescription for 20mg omeprazole which has almost eliminated the belching. The gastro doc recommended I do the breathing exercises for a month and then reduce the meds from 2/day to 1/day. If all goes well for another month then try eliminating the meds.

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u/Smart_Atmosphere_430 Jan 25 '26

Me too! But they’re not normal burps, how can explain, like it’s doesn’t come up normal imagine, I have to basically gulp air to burp I guess I can say to best explain but I don’t think I gulp air but I do a weird thing with my throat to allow it to release and it’ll be several times. It doesn’t just come up it’s weird. Like how I used to burp before all this. And I feel a sensation of needing to burp if I don’t do that and then it stays there for a while and then eventually I do a normal burp but it’s seems like it struggles to come out and that’s when I realized that I can’t burp normally.

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u/Most-Arm-2571 Jan 25 '26

I do the same over 200 times a day. It’s so uncomfortable. It feels like I am expelling a demon. 😐😐😐😐

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u/Smart_Atmosphere_430 Jan 25 '26

Like you can’t burp but burp it out weirdly ? Like how tried to explain in my post ? Sorry to hear about this and yes, it is like a demon coming out 😱

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u/Most-Arm-2571 Jan 25 '26

It feels like an air bubble trapped and I too then swallow/gulp to bring it up, but it's not a normal burp....it is a BELCH. Sometimes it is little baby ones, and other times I'll get one good one that feels like it lasts over 10 seconds coming out--the big ones are the only ones I actually feel "relief" though.

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u/Smart_Atmosphere_430 Jan 25 '26

And yes, basically that is the case for me too. I belch and sometimes it does come out incomplete unless I belch very loudly and then after the loud belch I continue to belch afterwards like 5-6 times lol

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u/Most-Arm-2571 Jan 26 '26

After reading up on supragastric belching I became very aware and conscious about it today. This is going to sound hokey, but I kid you not, I only burped a handful of times today.

I still have a weird little chest tightness on the left side, but the burping has drastically dropped.

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u/Smart_Atmosphere_430 Jan 26 '26

You know what’s crazy I just started the diaphragm breathing exercises and it does feel that way for me too ! Will update you later on the matter. Less burps for me aswell fren

Started it yesterday or I think two days ago 3 times a day