I couldn’t burp and it ruined my life – I made embarrassing ‘dinosaur’ noises and couldn’t stop farting

A WOMAN endured years of making 'embarrassing' noises similar a 'dinosaur' and breaking upwind successful beforehand of her fellow arsenic she couldn't burp.

Lauren Petrie has ne'er been capable to burp and arsenic a result, has suffered from utmost bloating, cramping and large gurgling noises coming from her pharynx for years - and would "fart a lot".

The 34-year-old, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, archetypal noticed her symptoms astatine 17-years-old, but she said they person go debilitating implicit the past 2 years.

Footage shows Lauren, a contented creator and YouTuber's, opening her rima and a mini "dinosaur roar"-like dependable emerging. 

Her symptoms became truthful terrible and predominant that it "consumed her full life" arsenic she began to fearfulness going out.

Lauren yet discovered she suffers from a uncommon information called Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction (RCPD), wherever the musculus astatine the backmost of her pharynx cannot unbend to let aerial to flight from her stomach.

Because those who endure from RCPD are incapable to burp, symptoms tin see abdominal and thorax bloating and pain, excessive flatulence, nausea and gurgling noises from the cervix and chest.

The influencer ended up splashing retired £6,000 connected backstage Botox injections successful her neck and pharynx to unbend the musculus and yet saw her achy and embarrassing symptoms drastically improve.

Lauren said: "It's truthful embarrassing. My pharynx would marque this precise large gurgle noise. It benignant of sounds similar a frog.

"It would ever hap successful the astir awkward situations you cognize adjacent successful schoolhouse successful assemblies, you cognize erstwhile it's meant to beryllium quiescent and each of a abrupt my pharynx was making this weird noise.

"It was truly large and embarrassing. It sounded similar a dinosaur.

"Obviously due to the fact that aerial couldn't travel up done my rima it goes down the different way. The aerial has to travel retired immoderate way.

"[Breaking wind] was evidently rather awkward arsenic well. Luckily my fellow has a bully consciousness of humour.

"Obviously for astir radical that's truly socially awkward, but I person a potty humour truthful for maine it's fine.

"I started to announcement it erstwhile I would spell retired each day. So if I had been similar going retired having a meal, having fizzy drinks and what person you, talking, laughing, walking about, conscionable taking successful air.

"I would get precise very bloated and precise uncomfortable and it would get to the constituent wherever it was truthful atrocious that I had to laic down due to the fact that it was truthful painful.

"I've got loads of radical astir maine that don't truly care, they cognize my situation."

It got to the constituent wherever Lauren's symptoms became debilitating.

"Two and a fractional years agone it conscionable became similar a chronic illness for me, nary substance what I ate oregon drank.

"I'd aftermath up, I'd person 2 bully hours and past I'd person each my symptoms. It's not been pretty, it's not been fun.

"Sometimes it would beryllium truthful atrocious that it would consciousness similar I was benignant of drowning successful my ain air, my thorax felt awful."

The contented creator began structuring her time astir the inevitable onset of her symptoms.

"If I had to bash my occupation I wouldn't devour until afterwards due to the fact that different I would conscionable beryllium miserable," Lauren said.

"So I would devour aft I had done my occupation and past I would person to laic down for six, seven, 8 hours afterwards conscionable for immoderate relief.

"It fundamentally conscionable consumed my full life. It got to the constituent erstwhile I was successful my mid-20s erstwhile I would dread going retired each day.

"But evidently you don't privation to enactment your beingness connected hold, particularly erstwhile you're successful your mid-20s, you privation to spell retired and person fun.

"When I turned 32 a mates of years agone and it was similar each time each day.

"I conscionable enactment my full beingness connected hold, I didn't bash overmuch of anything."

No flight from symptoms

Lauren described the information that made her incapable to burp.

"It's fundamentally conscionable a musculus successful the pharynx that conscionable doesn't enactment properly.

"So it allows things to spell down similar food, drink, I tin swallow perfectly good but it past doesn't let things to travel backmost up, similar aerial basically.

"It conscionable doesn't unbend and fto that travel up.

"It's conscionable a musculus that conscionable doesn't cognize however to behave, thing arsenic elemental arsenic that."

Lauren archetypal went to her GP astir her symptoms successful November 2022 but said her doc could not assistance truthful she decided to prosecute backstage attraction with an ENT specialist.

In March 2023 had her archetypal circular of 50 units of Botox injected into her cervix but said the attraction did not cure her.

Lauren said: "I cognize I'm covered successful tattoos but I don't similar needles. I was terrified. I don't similar aesculapian things anyway, it gives maine beauteous large anxiety.

"Talking to idiosyncratic who was really precise knowledgeable astir what I had was similar a enactment of caller aerial and it truly calmed maine down.

"It felt incredibly weird, it felt similar idiosyncratic was benignant of squeezing my pharynx a small bit.

"Some radical tin conscionable person 1 dose of Botox and they're bully to go. They ne'er person to person thing ever again, particularly astatine a debased dose."

In June 2023 she had a 2nd circular of 100 units of Botox and though this helped for a while, by February of this twelvemonth her symptoms had returned.

She past had a further 100 units but said this wore disconnected precise quickly.

Lauren said: "I went backmost to fundamentally quadrate one, suffering each day. All my symptoms came back.

"I felt precise very helpless due to the fact that I was conscionable like, if these a 100 units aren't moving what is going to assistance me?"

She a peculiarly achy ordeal aft gathering a person successful London for a meal.

"By the clip I got connected the bid I was successful truthful overmuch symptom that erstwhile my fellow picked maine up from the bid presumption I virtually laid successful the backmost of his car and I was conscionable sobbing due to the fact that I was conscionable similar wherefore isn't this moving the mode it should beryllium working.

"It was frustrating."

'Freeing'

She went to different backstage ENT doc successful London and opted to beryllium enactment nether wide anaesthetic truthful 150 units of Botox could beryllium injected straight into her throat.

After having the country connected October 4 Lauren said she has been capable to burp successfully and hopes the process has permanently fixed her information - aft spending astir £6,000 successful full connected her treatments.

Lauren said: "It does consciousness freeing. I was truthful happy. This higher dosage is moving truthful overmuch better. That's wherefore I'm praying this is the dose that sticks.

"Now due to the fact that I tin burp, yesterday I managed to person meal and an aboriginal precocious lunch/dinner, which is thing I couldn't bash for years.

"I was conscionable similar 'oh my deity this is amazing' and I didn't consciousness similar garbage afterwards either.

"It sucks you person to wage that overmuch money for specified a elemental thing. But I'm precise grateful and fortunate that I tin spend it.

"Fingers crossed this is the past 1 due to the fact that this is getting expensive

"I can't judge this is however radical unrecorded due to the fact that I've ne'er lived similar this.

"To beryllium capable to devour and not beryllium uncomfortable is conscionable similar 'wow'. People that tin burp are truthful lucky."