Need advice or answers please guys

Support Needed 👥

I’m honestly at my breaking point and really hoping someone here has dealt with something similar or can offer some direction.

I’ve had right-side abdominal discomfort for over two years now and it’s there every single day. It’s not a sharp stabbing pain, more like a constant gnawing or pressure feeling that never fully goes away. Some days I can kind of push through it, other days it completely takes over my mood, focus, and ability to function normally.

The most frustrating symptom by far is the excessive belching. I belch constantly, every single day, no matter what I eat or drink. I can wake up, take a sip of plain water, and immediately start belching. Sometimes the episodes are really bad and nonstop. There is a very clear connection between the belching and the right-side discomfort, but what’s weird is that burping does not relieve the pain at all. I see so many people say their discomfort improves after they burp, but for me it never fully goes away. The pressure just sits there and it’s driving me insane.

I also deal with bloating and reflux. I’ll taste food I ate earlier in the day for hours. I’ve tried PPIs like Nexium and antacids. They might help the acid a little, but they do absolutely nothing for the right-side discomfort or the constant belching.

For background, I recently had my gallbladder removed. I never had gallstones, but pathology showed chronic inflammation. I’m not upset I had it removed because something was clearly wrong, but the surgery did not fix the right-side pain at all. It feels basically the same as before.

After surgery I had some diarrhea at first, which I expected, but now my bowel movements are more irregular and backed up rather than diarrhea. Still not normal.

I’ve had years of GI appointments, tests, scopes, and medications and I still don’t have a clear answer. I keep being told GERD, gastritis, anxiety, or that everything looks normal, yet I wake up every day with this right-side discomfort and constant belching that I can’t ignore.

This is affecting my day-to-day life badly. It’s exhausting physically and mentally and I’m honestly worn down from dealing with this every single day without answers.

I’m not looking for a diagnosis from Reddit. I just want to know if anyone has experienced something like this, especially right-sided pain that didn’t go away after gallbladder removal, excessive daily belching that PPIs don’t touch, or conditions like SIBO, bile reflux, or functional dyspepsia that presented this way. If something finally helped you or a certain test gave you answers, I’d really appreciate hearing about it.

I just want my life back.

Posted Dec 13, 2025, 10:39 AM UTC

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