I have RCPD, a relatively newly recognized condition where I simply cannot burp. The muscle at the top of my throat is so tight that bubbles can’t be let out. The gas works its way through my whole system causing growling noises and loud, cartoonish farting. Does anyone else here have this? Does anyone else who has it have a burp fetish as a result of being unable to burp themselves?
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Welcome to the forum!
I had it, but managed to cure it three months ago through throat exercises after 23 years of being unable. I love to burp now! Of course, I have a fart fetish too, and my farts went down quite a bit, but it’s evened out a lot more!
You emetophobic by chance?
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Thanks for your reply. I have a fart fetish, too. I’m pretty emetophobic but haven’t vomited in ages. I had the botox procedure a couple of years ago, but it wore off after a couple of months. I had one HUGE burp and that was it. I don’t know if I feel like putting myself through the procedure again. My doctor said that if it fails a second time, he might consider a cricopharyngeal myotomy, but I don’t want to trade being able to burp for a lifetime of acid reflux. 
How long did the exercises take you, and which did you do?
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I totally get that. I’m a former SUPER emetophobe, to the point I was housebound for nearly a decade. Firstly, I DID have to accept I might throw up in order to get over it. It was very scary, and I did regurgitate a couple of times, but I’m glad I can burp now. Mentally bracing yourself is probably the first step, and, from what I’ve read, might be why the Botox didn’t work as well, because you were still “fighting”.
The exercises I did worked immediately. I gradually got bigger and bigger burps until now I can do it without having to do any upkeep at all, though just like the Botox, I understand it may take a year or so to fully burp like a normal person all the time.
The main one I did is called “Kiss The Ceiling”. You basically pucker your lips and stretch your neck up toward the sky without bending your shoulder. Do that x5 a day for 30 seconds, up to a minute. Second, stick your tongue out as far and down as possible and hold for 30 seconds, called “Tongue Hold” (found these through a post online).
I do genuinely think accepting “hey, I could maybe vomit here” is essential. It’s functionally the same mechanism. Once I accepted it, and had a couple of “vurps”, which are normal, my emetophobia has gone WAY down, and I burp like a champ.
Sorry if this was a tad triggering, but it’s the truth. Everyone who relapses is still fighting their body subconsciously from what I can tell. I wish the best of luck with the exercises, and you ever need any help or encouragement, even on the emetophobia side, feel free to message me!
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Thanks for sharing these with me. They sound doable enough to at least give them a try. I wonder if there are any instructional videos anywhere to get a feel for the proper form…
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There actually is one, unrelated to burping, but I’ll send it to you privately to avoid the poor woman getting bombarded xD
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I also have it, I typically avoid carbonated beverages (I don’t really like them to begin with) cause I can’t just burp and debloat so id rather not. I certainly don’t experience wild discomfort like a lot of people say on reddit
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Hey! I was enable to burp and I’m emetophobic too! I didnt know that was so common! I just I trained from when I was 12 until I was 20 years old to be able to burp. Now that I’m 24 I can, but I’m still emetophobic haha
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thank you so much for this! i have r-cpd myself so i’ll try these exercises out
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Give it a shot! Rooting for you. If my emetophobic ass could do it, anyone can! I can shoot you that video too if you want it.
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I also have this… I think. I’ve never asked a doctor or anything, but I have never been able to burp. As you say, the muscle at the top of my throat is so tight that it can’t let any air out like a normal burp; I have always been this way. I often wondered if not being able to burp myself somehow affected my burp fetish.
I also get the growling noises and weird hiccup-type things when I feel like air is trying to escape. I believe this would result in a burp for a normal person but for me it either makes its way out slowly and weirdly as a gurgly noise, or it seems to just hit the part of the throat where it gets blocked, some pressure builds like a big hiccup and almost like a burp wants to force it’s way out but will not be able to break through and after a second or 2 the pressure just fades away (again, almost like a hiccup but a bit slower and slightly controlled). It can be uncomfortable as the pressure builds quickly, especially if it’s a lot of air trying to escape; occasionally it results in 2 or 3 hiccups like this one after the other, each one feeling like a burp trying to happen but not being able to. It offers little to no relief like I imagine a good burp would. It often leads to feeling bloated and bouts of hiccups. Very, very rarely (probably like once or twice a year) a random burp will manage to happen, usually it is very small, airy/liquidy, very forced, almost like I think I’m about to vomit when it happens. It always tastes and feels very unpleasant, and not enough air ever escapes to make it any sort of relief, just a random quirk of the condition that a tiny burp (if you would even call it that) can happen under certain conditions, but a “proper” burp never.
Not being able to burp myself certainly made me more interested in other people’s burping, particularly when I was younger before I knew it was a fetish. Mainly because of what I described, the action of a burp trying to happen to me always just felt uncomfortable and very similar to vomiting, so it really intrigued me how some people could burp so well and not seem to find it uncomfortable or gross. If I saw/heard a particularly big or juicy burp I would immediately wonder how they did it without throwing up and what it felt like to them, it intrigued me even more that certain people seemed to enjoy it and want to do big and juicy burps on purpose.
At certain times I tried to teach myself to burp, I tried every technique, read every description, watched all the tutorials. But I eventually came to the conclusion that technique is not the issue for me, it’s simply my body is unable to do it properly, so I gave up trying on that.
As I hit puberty and realised it was a fetish, I tried to explore the psychological side of the fetish and find reasons why, such as not being able to burp myself. You will probably be able to find some of my old posts on the psychological stuff on here. And although I definitely think not knowing how to burp for me did have some formative effects on my fetish, I don’t think it was the “main” reason I developed the fetish. The fact that a lot of people with the fetish can burp kind of ends the theory that it is the main cause, in my opinion, but it is definitely a quirk of the fetish, and I wonder if the population of people who can’t burp is higher in the burping fetish community…
Another thing about it that always intrigued me is how people with the fetish who can burp think about their own burping? I’m sure it has been covered here before. I think if I could do the types of burps I like I would be aroused by that? But I will never know.
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Basically the body doesn’t trusts you an that’s why it’s tight. Just do it for the sake of doing it. nothing more. Accepting it will make it easier. Sounds odd, right?
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I also struggle from this REALLY weird combination of pretty severe emetophobia-rcpd-burp fetish combo. I feel like it is all connected in some way I still can’t figure out, like sexuality and fear are working from the same part of my brain, and the limit between fear and attraction is very close. I really wish there was more research about this three combo because it seems to me like it’s a simple concept science just can’t figure out. I’m about to book my first Botox appointment later this month, and it’s basically going in blind for me. I have no idea how much it will make a change if I’ll be able to burp (and therefore throwing up), emetophobia- wise and fetish wise. It’s honestly a mystery to me still. I just hope for the best lol
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Thank you for sharing! I feel the same as you, same in the thin line between the fear and sexuality. When I start to burp, I feel that the emeto has lower, but still there haunting me, so much so that to this day I have never vomited.
Please, when your botox appointment it’s done, tell us how you feel about the combo.
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I also kinda fall in this emetophobia-RCPD-fetish zone. It’s not so much that I have a fear of vomit. I’ve just never thrown up, except maybe for when I was a baby. My body doesn’t know what it’s like to vomit, and I suspect that’s linked to why I don’t burp. And similarly, the fact that I can’t burp made the taboo more interesting in my sexually formative years.
Because I don’t burp but find them so fascinating, I’ve had times where I ask my girlfriend incredibly detailed questions about the process or what they feel like. It must be weird for burpy people to explain the basics of burping to a no-burper who’s captivated by the idea to the point of obsession. lol
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I made a thread a long time ago relating to this posing a question. Since many of us emetophobes generally don’t burp do people who vomit a lot burp more? I was mainly curious because a girl I was talking to said she throws up on a weekly basis.
I pretty much never puke unless it’s drug or alcohol-related and I burp a lot. Puking weekly is NOT normal.