I did a colonoscopy a month ago. It was the lovely miralax and Gatorade combo. I realize this might be the catalyst to a gerd flare that went haywire. Has anyone else ever experienced gerd after that prep?

It sucks because it’s not like I could avoid doing it.

I 18F, unsure if I have GERD but I recently was prescribed Pantoprazole which is also a PPI? To summarize the symptoms I sometimes get are a burning throat, cramping in my stomach, the feeling of my stomach being uncomfortable, coughing and the feeling of something in my throat.

I’ve read a few things about Pantoprazole and as someone who has Emetophobia, i’m terrified to take it since I saw that one of the side effects is nausea and that most people on here experienced it or some other negative side effect.

I come to this subreddit out of anxiety and fear of taking it now because of those possible side effects, so, any advice will do 🙏

Hello everyone. It has been a tough first month after Nissen Fundoplication, I had dysphagia and I thought I will never be able to eat again. And the gas-bloat syndrome was crazy. But here it comes, I am two weeks without ppi and 1.5 half month post-op. Omg this is amazing, I can eat tomatoes, anything I want in small quantities of course, and I have no signs of gerd. I have no regurgitation at all, no more severe bloating, i can eat like everyone🥰🥰 i guess my gut bacteria will be back to normal. I never thought I could live one day without ppi, I have been on ppi for 6 years everyday, diets, anything you could imagine, regurgitation, everything one with gerd has. People, just go with surgery if you have the option, this is the most wonderful doctors can do to us. You can have a gerd free life. The most annoying is not being able to vomit but I have anti-nausea meds on me and I never eat if I feel it is too much or I am nauseous.

My daughter was diagnosed with GERD a few weeks ago and was prescribed Famotidine twice daily. Only 0.3ml but she’s only 4 months old. I don’t notice any of her symptoms getting better, if anything, they are worse. Has anyone had this type of experience with this medication? She’s been on it religiously since October 18th. We have our follow up appointment tomorrow but wanted to see if it’s a common thing with this specific medicine.

Like most of you, I don't go to sleep until 2-3 hours after eating and sleep elevated. This has really helped my reflux at night and my sleep is improving. The issue is I wake up in the morning and within 10-15 minutes of being awake I have a burning rush go through my body (presumably acid because I haven't eaten for so long) which leads to an intense low mood. I tend to try to eat something right away which helps take the edge off a little bit, but it's a really awful feeling to wake up to this every day. I am not taking any medications having come off of PPIs a little over a month ago, and Gaviscon about 2 weeks ago. I am trying to heal my gut through diet/lifestyle/reducing stress. In some ways things are better, but this type of thing is pretty alarming. How do you manage to go so many hours without eating without getting a flare up?

A month ago I was prescribed Fosamax for osteoporosis. I have been taking Famotidine for many years and it was working (with a proper diet).

I expected to have GERD on the days when taking Fosamax (it is a weekly pill). I take it as prescribed not eating for 30 minutes and staying up straight,etc) I had no issues for a month at all but now I am having mild acid reflux symptoms every day.

It is not clear to me if acid reflux is supposed to happen on the day of taking Fosamax or this will be a daily issue. Please share your experiences. Thanks!

What Clinic/Doctor would you recommend for gerd surgery? I live in Canada but I might get it done in the US, after reading many articles it seems US is more open to surgeries than Canada and with much more people it seems like US clinics might have more experience.

No life!

Bile in stomach. Lost 15kgs 3mths unintentionally, idk wats happening! Have dysfunctional osphogus yes told by professor ,dysphagia yes but slight not bsd, motility problems, silent reflux never been bad at all still isn't. Weak les, ues.

I don't have gastritis but recent endoscopy says bile into stomach I had 7 visits to drs and 3 visits to emergency. Results so far. Excessive fluids gas air in intestines bowel descended stomach. Recent endoscopy says bile into stomach. Momentary 2 yrs ago says weak les ues dysphagia motility problems innafective swallowing 90% I've had no problems for 3yrs with reflux or anything till 4mthd ago. Last 2mths have been worst. Constantly can't breathe. Constantly regurgitation and liquid coming in mouth its foamy to no heartburn no chest pains. Life is hell every day I do not go out or invite people over cause of constant liquid coming in throat mouth I just go to garage and sit there I cannot get comfortable. Aka I have spine problems to neck spine reversed, stenosis spondylitis scoliosis that's another story. But I have to ignore people cause I can't socialize cause of this mess. I will see upper go surgeon soon but I just want this to stop. Also I never have bad reflux symptoms but all this is strange now 😡

First time posting on Reddit, so bear with me. I’m 33f and have had reflux/regurgitation since I can remember. I remember being very young and telling my mom that my food came back up and she said that it happens to everyone sometimes. So, I thought everyone had to swallow their food twice most of the time. I got sent home from school a few times thinking I must be sick because I was “throwing up” even if I didn’t feel that bad because my food came up so much so I’d have to go spit out mouthfuls. Sometimes acidic, sometimes mostly just partially digested food. Water can came come back up as well. It’s not just about what I eat. As I got older, the heartburn got worse and I’m be up getting tums in the night at 10. The heartburn/regurgitation got bad enough that I went to the doc for it finally and got diagnosed after an upper GI barium swallow x ray when I was 14.

I was put on protonix, 40 mg, and stayed on it. Pain has mostly been manageable and I’ve learned to live with the regurgitation issues. Honestly, it’s got to where I don’t always notice that much. It sounds gross to people who don’t have to live with it but it’s not always an option to spit it out when you get a mouthful of grossness. You just move on with your day.

Sometimes I get horrific pain in my stomach like someone has my stomach in their fist. It’s a weird deep aching pain that radiates through to my back that no has been able to tell me the cause of but the current guess is esophageal spasms. (They’ve looked at my gallbladder several times).

I have hiccups most days and weird squawking hiccup things and chronic ear pain all suspected to be caused by acid irritation. They think I have sleep apnea now, at least partially caused by irritation as well.

I say all this to say I’ve put up with this junk for a long time now and have learned to manage but recently I’ve had an increase in more symptoms but not as much of the pain. The lack of pain despite the regurgitation and a warm sensation that is almost constant made me concern I may be scarred or something so I brought it up again to my GP who has now for the first time sent me to a specialist.

The specialist works out of a weight loss clinic. Yes, I’m clinically obese, more so after long term antidepressent use, but my reflux problems predate all this and it’s not the primary reason for my referral. The doctor after hearing my history and seeing my file thinks a gastric bypass will fix all these issues-plus I’ll lose weight, so bonus for me.

Right now I’m in the process of testing and evaluating to clear me for surgery. I’ve had to stop taking my protonix and I’ve been horribly in pain. So far I’ve had an endoscopy with the endoflip and bravo procedure thing. This was my second endoscopy. And both noted polyps from prolonged ppi use. Tuesday I’m doing an upper gi x ray with barium swallow, I think the fourth one I’ve done. And later this month a gastric emptying scan. It’s been a lot and the heartburn is brutal and I’m wondering if any of this is worth it. Will surgery help? Has anyone had this done? Just the prep for these tests has been horrible and I go back and forth between wanting them to cut my entire stomach out if it meant I wouldn’t hurt like this to backing out of everything and just trying more medicine. Ideally, I’d love a solution that wasn’t me taking more and more pills as time goes on or living off tums. And I don’t even know what life would be like without having to treat myself like a newborn after I eat so I don’t “spit up”.

Words of wisdom? Advice? Personal experiences? Idk

I used to use Zantac for my Gerd and HH before it was pulled from shelves. Since then I was put on PPI and I've had all sorts of issues. Weight gain, panic attacks, feeling weak, dizzy, muscle jolts and twitches. I tried multiple types of PPI with no change and all my GP would say is "the labs look good, its just anxiety".

So I was interested to see that Zantac is back on shelves in Australia and I had no issues when on it, so bought the 24 hour version and I've been off PPI and only Zantac for 7 days now and it feels like my body is coming back to life. I'm not dizzy, it doesn't feel like my legs might give way at any time, no sense of doom/anxiety and I've dropped 1.5KG in weigh with no other changes. Its honestly astonishing. So for me Zantac is going to continue and I'll see how I go.

I had a Toupet procedure done 9 days ago after a year and a half of bad GERD (that eventually got a little better before surgery). I had a large hiatal hernia and Barrett’s Esophagus due to how bad the GERD got. I was on 20mg of Omeprazole for a year and a half (got all the way up to 80mg for a few months and then came down). On the day of my surgery I quit the Omeprazole cold turkey. The first few days I was recovering from the surgery, but didn’t feel any heartburn symptoms. After day 5 or 6, I started feeling burning again. Did anyone experience this? Does this mean my surgery didn’t work? I am meeting my surgeon for follow up tomorrow but am dejected that my GERD symptoms are worse than they were the few months before my surgery.

Hi, I tried at most everything for reflux, I could not eat months, -20kg, then I read here about Atarax so I asked doctor about it and I got it for 2 months and it works diarect thanks God. But I don't know why only this medication helping me with reflux,my GP think that it calming me but I have read that it blocks histamine and that is why decreases acid in stomach. However this medication can't be used more than few months as it can may lead to a fast or irregular heartbeat etc! So anyone plz used Atarax long term? Or is there any alternative works for reflux same? Thx

Hi and good evening!
My sister's wedding is in one week (Nov.10th) and I am a bridesmaid, and i am getting very desperate.
I'm currently on birth control and I cannot be off of it for too long safely (my periods make me anemic)
But, my birth control flares my GERD up!
And it's gotten bad as of recent, (The past 2 weeks-ish)
I'm constantly out of breath, my voice is hoarse, if I stand for more then 2 hours I feel like I'm gonna pass out, If I'm walking it has to be at a SLOW pace or I will black out.

My GERD is also greatly effected by my stress, which thankfully I've seen a psychologist for, and have some breathing techniques. But that doesn't change that I have severe travel anxiety and social anxiety (I was diagnosed with agoraphobia when i was little).

This wedding is farther then I've ever been before, so I know stress kicking up my GERD symptoms will be a factor. For the reception, they're serving olive garden with a menu full of my trigger foods (Pasta with red and garlic sauce).

Sincerely I want to have a good time at my sister's wedding and make sure that it's a near perfect night for her. I don't want me having flare ups and needing to lay down between everything and not eating dinner to ruin that for her.

If anyone has any advice on travel/trip management of GERD i'm more then happy to listen!

I will say so far
I've tried a 2 week round of omeprazole over the counter to no result
Tums only work if I take like 5, and at that volume they make me sick
Drinking a ton of water helps, but I have a nervous bladder so it also makes me pee a bunch and seeing as I'm a bridesmaid that isn't an option really lol

Anyways thank you in advance!

I’ve had gerd symptoms for the entirety of 2024. Went to my doctor about the acid reflux and he said it’s likely gerd, no scope yet as he wanted to see if ppis would help without seeing a GI doctor. I’m in Canada and my doctor sucks. Will be going back to ask for a scope. I’m on week two of my ppi and while the burning is back I’m still noticing some regurgitation happening.

I’m only taking Nexium for the time being so I know the dose is quiet low.

Am I the only one who get random chills? Its so annoying. I noticed the chills didnt start until after I ended up with Gastritis for a month. It was literally a month of Nausea and Vomiting. Am I the only one? I seen a few people say they get chills as well😩Pantoprazole stopped working for me (40MG, Teice a day). Im waiting on my GI team to switch me to Nexium🙏🏽🙏🏽

I've discovered today that Wendy's is mine. Been having a flare up for the past 2 hours. The worst one I've had in a while. Making my anxiety flare up too making me think something else is wrong. Man gerd sucks.

Getting burning pains leftside of sternum. Between the rib it’s not my heart,lungs or costo. It’s definitely something reflux related comes and go. Anyone get pains under the leftside breast below the nipple. Sometimes it go all the way to armpit

Looking to start introducing new foods since I've been feeling better recently. I've been eating chicken, mashed potatoes, melon, salmon and beans. Any suggestions on foods to try first that are on the more mild/safe side? I want to eat some different foods 🥲

So I was told to take this a long time ago for gut repair and I never did But I am having a flair up so I decided to start to take it After a week my acid was through the roof but that was the only thing I have changed Then I googled it and it said it’s good for gut repair for ibs but actually not good for acid reflux it aggravated it Has any one had this reaction or any thoughts ?

Hi GERD Herd,

I’m a 10+ year sufferer of acid reflux and GERD who has had LPR like symptoms as well the past 2-3 years.

I’ve medicated with varying levels of success but have been mostly off PPIs as they never seemed to agree with me.

My symptoms are everything from classic heartburn, to food getting “stuck”, to throat burning, burping etc.

After the food and booze boondoggle in March that was my wedding and honeymoon, I decided to buckle down and start seriously trying to improve my life.

I stuck strictly to acid watcher diet in April and May and saw about a 40% improvement - no caffeine, alcohol, garlic, onion etc. I was still getting LPR symptoms but my heartburn and more “GERD” like symptoms abated.

After 2 work trips in June and July where I was stuck at dinners and events where I couldn’t control the food choices, I relapsed and starting having reflux again.

Now, let me tell you what I’ve done from August until now that I believe has nearly cured all of my symptoms:

• Continued following Acid Watcher Diet 90% of the time (occasional social drink, fruit)

• went gluten free

• went dairy/lactose free

• WENT LOW FODMAP

• eliminated seed oils

• downloaded the Fig app and created my personalized “Fig” (with the above diet restrictions) and DID NOT BUY anything from the grocery store that didn’t fit my criteria

• switched to eating 90% of meals at home

• joined a gym and walked at least 7-10k steps per day

• drank alkaline water as much as possible

• only “meds” I took were tums immediately after potential problem meal and then 1 right before bed. No PPI but this is bc I’ve had issues with them (do not take this as medical advice)

• elevated pillows

• stopped reading this Reddit as much

• lowered stress at work and set boundaries where possible

A lot of the above advice are likely things you are already doing. Where I really saw a change was going Low FODMAP and removing gluten/dairy, which I had not done the first time around.

My hypothesis is removing foods that trigger IBS and additional gas to be made in the body allowed my LES to function more normally and over time has healed my esophagus. Low FODMAP was a godsend. When Low FODMAP diet and Acid Watcher conflicted, I usually followed Low FODMAP.

The above list has shown a 90% improvement and I am able to stray for a few days without repercussions (ate candy, Chinese food and drank on Halloween) and then I go right back to my protocol.

Anyways, I hope this sticks longterm and can help someone here. Sticking to these guidelines has been tough but rewarding. This is a miserable condition and I’ve suffered for so long with all of you! Wishing you all well <3

Hi, has anyone's doctor said that one should stick with PPI's for a couple weeks/months even though it might come with side effects?

I'm still awaiting upper endoscopy to confirm what I have. My main symptom is nausea and I had one upper abdominal pain attack 8 weeks ago. With the pain, Omeprazole 40mg took it away. But after 8 days of it I was nauseous for 11 days straight before nausea ended. I was fine but had pizza and now I've been nauseous for 3 weeks, it does not stop. I tried Esomeprazole 20mg for a week and no effect.

Should I give another chance to Omeprazole and stick with it for few weeks just to see if in the long run it helps?

Around 3 weeks ago I notice pain in my abdominal before,I picked my brother up.It then vanished then the next day It turned in to chest pains.the pain is above my heart.The pain lasted for 2 weeks then went.Its come back but it’s not painful it just feels like an pinch that keeps coming back.I had an ECG done a week ago and it came back clear.What could it be??

Hey Folks,

Does anyone else get swollen or enlarged tonsils because of their version of GERD (or GORD here in the UK)?

My left tonsil sometimes swells up for seemingly no reason at all and is accompanied by the faint feeling of something stuck in my throat, just past my tonsil. It's obviously the tonsil itself, and I pretty much know it's acid reflux because of the "acidy" and "sweetish" stomach acidy taste that accompanies it. I've gotten over the "oh no it's cancer!" stage now.

Just wondered if anyone else has this, or anything similar as well.

I’ll be traveling internationally soon and I’m trying to figure out the best electrolytes to take. I usually drink alkaline water with electrolytes but I can’t fly with a lot of that or any liquid. Most powder packets I have seen either has a lot of sodium or has Gerd inducing ingredients like citric acid. Any suggestions?

(20 M)So from past couple of weeks i was having dry cough aftern then when i woke up in morning one day i had this pain in my vocal cord area after 2-3 hours it went away. but then yesterday i ate something oily at night and after then when i layed down in my bed i had this feeling that something there is in my throat( part below adam's apple and above rib cage bone) and after that i was having a lot of trouble in swollowing food and even drinking water i can feel the food going down my chest and even suffering little bit of pain so my symptoms are

• difficulty in swollowing
• burping most of the time
• feeling something in my throat when i burp
• slight pain in chest when i swollow food
• feeling of lump below adam apple or upper part of esophagus

so guys i searched on internet about my symptoms and my symptoms are matching to esophageal cancer and im scared. please anyone here who had similar symptoms to mine and how they treated it.

hi guys i’m 23F and i’m getting my endoscopy done soon since i’ve been having reflux and burning stomach for a few months now. it’s on and off so i finally decided it’s time for me to get an endoscopy done.

i’m freaking out which is so stupid because last year in november i had a colonoscopy done and it went fine. i did fine with the sedation and the procedure other than some constipation afterwards.

i guess im just nervous because i have an awful gag reflex and my dad also aspirated during his last endoscopy which resulted in an ICU stay. granted he is 73 and he didn’t fast long enough for his condition of gastroparesis.

i would really just love to hear some uplifting stories about your experience and just know what to look out for after the procedure is over. thank you so much!

I have been struggling with reflux since the middle of July, it was probably due to smoking + abuse of coffee/diet sodas/laxatives + my terrible eating habits (i have been having a restrictive ED with occasional binging episodes for over four years), probably IBS (i cannot, as gross as it sounds, poop "normally". I have to resort to digital disimpaction on a daily basis). But ultimately it was triggered by eating airport sushi. Been having a very annoying sensation of lump around my throat ever since. Tested negative for H.Pyori. I had an endoscopy in august and it said i have a weak LES, bile reflux, and mild chronic gastritis (they are probably all ultimately related to my weak LES). Recently I also had a couple heartburn episodes. Initially I was on a cure of L-Zync Carnosine and stomach coating gel, it seem to work for a bit or at least made it bearable. However I had to move to Korea to complete my Bachelors. I kinda had a relapse in my ED and smoked too. Weird thing is, since I barely eat, my globus sensation almost disappeared. But then it started again. I've been to doctors here, they prescribed me K-Cab and a bunch of other antiacids, most recently also Rabepranzole but i'm thinking of changing it again cause it gave me anxiety. I don't smoke anymore and I eat three meals a day regularly. Mostly rice and bananas. Even a carrot gave me heartburn today so I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm kinda lost and I wish someone could give me advice, mainly diet advice. Unfortunately being in ED recovery while fighting with gastritis is not easy (and maybe the two are actually related). A restrictive diet is not ideal when in recovery, however I do need to watch out what I eat. I'd appreciate if someone could give me advice, a meal plan, whatever. I need some variation into my diet. Oh and I only have microwaves in my dorm so I cannot really cook.(Please recommend easily digestible stuff as everything feels heavy on my stomach rn).

For months I had severe rib pain and nausea with acid reflux and after a bazillion doctor visits I managed to get into GI and they did an Endoscopy and found this disease. But why does it feel the pain almost worse when I take the meds. It’s 2 antibiotics that I take four times a day and bismuth tablets. When does it start to feel better? I hate this so much. Like, has anyone else experienced this?

Hello!

I began taking omeprazole around 2 years ago at around 40mg daily. I took that for a while and found some relief.

During this period I began getting a lot of gastrointestinal side effects. The side effects began outweighing the benefits, and I asked my doctor to quit. She recommended I half my dosage for a while and then go off them completely, which I did.

This was about one year ago.

I found some symptom relief when I dropped the dosage and when I quit completely, but the symptoms seem to have gone on and off.

The symptoms now primarily consist of fat malabsorption. I haven’t been diagnosed (seeing doctor in 2 months), but I check every box. Including the vitamin deficiencies.

Anyways, I’m wondering how long this is going to last or if I need to be doing anything to take control. My doctor warned me that coming off omeprazole is rough, but I am just looking for some advice until I can meet with them again.

Thanks!

A little bit over a month ago I started feeling this weird lump on my throat and extreme disconfort (but no pain) every time I swallowed anything. On 10/20/24 the symptoms got a little worse so I went to the ER and the doctor prescribed medication for yeast infection (Diflucan) and GERD (Famotidine) which didn't do much after taking them for 10 days.

Yesterday I went to urgent care for a quick exam and the doctor prescribed me another medication for GERD (Pantoprazole) and told me to go to a Gastroentreologist.

What worries me is that the ONLY thing I feel is this annoying lump on my throat. I do not feel any heartburn or chest/throat pain. I also eat pretty healthy foods and didn't change my diet at all for the last couple of years.

Since the medication for GERD doesn't seem to be doing much, should I go first to an ENT or straight to a Gastroenterologist?

Thank you for your time.