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Kaliesha Rae from St. George, Utah, suffers from a rare condition known as Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction (RCPD), or 'no-burp syndrome,' which prevents her from burping and causes extreme ...

"Looking back, I realized I had never burped in my entire life," says Isabelle Zeidner, a 23-year-old Columbia social work grad student who lives in New York City. "I noticed it more as I got older.

Until recently, RCPD wasn’t even on most doctors’ radar. The condition isn’t new, but it wasn’t officially recognized — or even named — until 2019. A community of more than 30,000 users with the same ...