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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/slightydamp_clothes on 2025-11-25 12:10:05+00:00.
Background: I get incredibly painful symptoms of reflux and over the past ten years I have undergone multiple tests including three gastroscopies, a barium swallow, and a manometry & 24 hours pH study (a test where I needed to have two tubes shoved down my nose into my stomach fully awake). I frequently need to go home early from things due to the severity of symptoms. It has been pretty isolating.
A few months ago I was at a friend's house and we were discussing people who claim they never fart and how absurd this sounds. I told her and her husband that I never burp, which they pointed out would be terribly painful. I decided to google it. This is a thing, but it is a medical condition, and every single one of my symptoms was listed as a symptom of this condition. Went to an ENT with my new found information, turns out I do have the condition, R-CPD. Relatively easy to fix with Botox. It had never occured to me that I was physically unable to burp. I just always thought it was a bit of a quirk that I didn't. Thousands of dollars and many uncomfortable tests for seemingly nothing.
TL;DR: Didn't realise I couldn't burp. Turns out it's a medical condition that matched my life-limiting symptoms perfectly.