worsening reflux oesophagitis despite medication

Geraldine I totally understand your fear of flundification  its a horrible procedure based on those that have had it but there are other things you can have too.  I did and my symptoms mirrored yours

i hope you can draw comfort from this.   You can get better 

Hi Geraldine, I have silent reflux so I can understand what you are going thru, I wanted to tell you that you should never go off coffee cold turkey as the withdrawal

can be overwhelming, what i did was use a little less each day, meaning if you normally have two cups a day start with one and a half cups for a couple of days then take it down to one cup per day and then after several days a half a cup, and it should be so much easier that way until you no longer need the caffeine, and then you can drink decaff coffee. Good Luck and feel better.

The more you worry about it the worse it will get, in your mind just tell it to sod off, ask your doctor to change to lapranazoke and gaviscon, taking gaviscon the very last thing at night before your shut your eyes works really well, I have had thus and hiatal hernia for years and years, just got over really bad flare up as decided to come off pills, and had anti biotics for chest infection, w,hitch akwYs gives me acid probs, couldn't breath with it ...the acid that is, but pills now put it right again but it's the gaviscon last thing at night and glass of water just before it , that's helping loads x

Geraldine,

Have you tried a really drastic change to the low acid and low fat diet described by Dr. Kaufman?  With that you can have one cup of coffee in the morning. Thank God, so no withdrawal.  The diet has helped me tremendously and I don't take any drugs.  

Late night eating is the worst for me and always causes reflux, so following her advice of no food for three hours before bed, even four really helps me.  The book is "Dropping Acid, The Reflux Diet and Cookbook Cure."  It has really, really helped.

Susan

So sorry for your loss!!!  Fear not. It's surely the coffee and tea--drink chamomile tea instead--it has no caffeine.  If you eliminate tose--you will feel better!  Meditate and try guided imagery to help with your levels of stress.  You must eliminate bad foods so you can heal, then slowly after 6 months of abstinence from the culprit acidic problem foods, try bringing them back and see if you can tolerate them again, but until you heal, you are just making the gastritis worse and worse.

Hi Geraldine

Have you tried peppermint tea? It's really goo for the system

Hi Geraldine, I understand how you feel because I went through the same kind of experience. Recently, I started taken cold press Siberian pine nut oil and in just one week, my condition improved and I think that I am on my way to full recovery.

You may wish to do your own findings on this natural product. The key word is Siberian pine nut oil. I sincerely wish you a speedy recovery. Stay blessed

hi

i too have had terrible problems with reflux but it is now under control with omeprazole and an anti depressant for anxiety. Have tea and toast at bedtime it really does help to soak up the acid for the night. I didn't give up coffee i switched to proper ground stuff, no problems at all but if i have a cup of instant it irritates, i don't think it's the caffeine i think it's the chemicals used in the instant that is the problem. Don't eat chocolate again there is a chemical in it that causes the sphincter to relax. Avoid too much dairy like milk and cheese, peppermint that people recommend i always found made me worse i too could never get to grips with herbal tea. You could try decaf tea bags but again i don't know about the chemicals in it. If you just used one pg tip bag and let it brew moderately rather than mash it should help, i found it was the tannin that irritated me not the caffeine, i also can't tolerate a glass of milk find it upsets it but i can manage the instant hot chocolate drinks don't know if it's because it's powdered milk etc. Don't go on a strict diet, i found the stress of worrying about what i ate made it worse so it is better to adapt your eating habits with subtle changes, Once you start to get some relief you will soon be able to identify which foods to avoid.

As for having toast at bedtime, i found that when i lay down i could be often woken up with searing pain of reflux which i can only describe as someone pouring a hot kettle the wrong way into your stomach so that it seeped up through the oesaphagus across your back and chest in incredible pain. If this happens the acid has already done it's damage so takes several days to heal and then the next attack is worse as it's on an already scarred intestine. tea and toast at bedtime and again for breakfast really does work to break the cycle.hope this helps

regards

marian

Hi Geraldine, has an of this worked. I have been diagnosed with acid reflux, but none of the usual tablets have worked. Omizaprzole, lansoprsole, rantidine. I was given painkillers, codeine, told to take paracetamol.....my symptoms are getting worst and the doctors and professsionas have ganged together int makingme believe I have anxeity and stress. Which I have because they are choosingthe easy optioninstead of finding the cause. I am aching, across body, waking up at night after a couple of  hours. Chest/abdomin pains are excruchiating. pacing about in the dark is so depressing. i have had a lump in the throat forthe las 3 months, sometimes it burns and I try and drink water wit lemon to calm the thoart but worry in case that is making the stomach acid situation worst. I also am not digesting food properly. so am weak and n no longer do any exercise? Do you have theslast symptoms too? I lie propped up witht pillows otherwise the chest burns is worst at night.