I'm an adult aged 40, and since my early teens I have been effortlessly regurgitating food after most meals within around 30 minutes. It is involuntary.
There is no known cure, and this distresses me as my teeth are rotting earlier than they are meant to: I am about to have my 3rd root canal treatment. It is expensive and time consuming.
I am writing to find out if anyone on here also suffers from this condition, and whether you are able to cure it? Apparently there is no known cure, and the page on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_syndrome#Diagnosis recommends relaxation exercises after meals, although this is not always pratical.
Hi Kate,
I think rumination is classified as a Gastro problem more so than an anxiety disorder and most of us are not too familiar with it including myself. I can appreciate how you suffer from this ailment and how lonely it must feel not to readily be able to find others. I can only guess that stress makes the rumination much worse. I know that eating disordered suffers with long hx of purging when stress actually almost ruminate after eating rather than forced vomiting but rumination has a physical base and eating disorders psychological. I do hope you find others with this condition. Eating disorders are popular but rumination is less known. Perhaps people here can help you in coping with stress as a
common adversary of anxiety.
Hi I would like to share my sons story he HAD rumination syndrome for about 8 months and he got rid of it. I can understand what u are going through. He caught a bad cold and did not stop coughing for 2 weeks when the cough stopped the rumination started and he was sick every time he drank or eat,after a lot of time in and out of hospital and a lot of time on the Internet doing research. We tried a breathing technique called buteyku , which basically trains u to breathe through your nose instead of mouth breathing , we found that this technique helped with his asthma, but the rumination continued so what we found on the internet was a method some doctor had used on a few patients. What involves is diaphragmic breathing around mealtime a few minutes before eating and a few minutes after eating. Possibly what happens is the stomach gets desensitised and less stressed with type of breathing. I think after using buteyku for2 months then breathing around mealtimes for 2 - 3 weeks it stopped. When u breathe at mealtime u inhale gently with stomach moving in and out not your chest moving and when u breathe out pause before inhaling again . My 10 year old son uses buteyku to this day and has stopped having asthma. It took alot of trial and error to get to this stage and hope u try this method. And he does not have to do any breathing around mealtimes the rumination is gone. It is hard to convey totally the methods we used but reply back if u have any questions