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Hi I started having symptoms nearly three months ago. My symptoms are excessive saliva , choking feeling constantly, burping which my kids find embarrassing. Bloating where my stomach hurts, and I find it had to walk and chest tightness which resulted in me having crackling on lungs and prescribed antibiotics and inhaler.
I m currently prescribed lansoprazole on 60 mg from 30 and I m waiting for endoscopy.
I ve lost 7lbs which I don t need as very thin anyway.
I ve been eating a bland diet, but symptoms are nt improving.
Any help or advice would be appreciated as can t lead a normal life, work or look after my children as I used to x
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Shelly0069 sharon59270
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sharon59270 Shelly0069
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Thanks for your reply 😃
rex_44766 Shelly0069
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Barretts sharon59270
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Symptoms canbe distressing and it can take a lot of experimentation to find a regime that works.
Excessive saliva (water brash), choking feelin, chest tightness, crackling lungs are all symptomatic of extra-oesophageal reflux - when refluxate via lower oesophageal sphincter has traversed the whole column of the oesophagus and breaches the upper sphincter whence it may be aspirated into respiratory system.
Bloating and burping may be indicative of poor stomach emptying which can cause reflux.
It is unfortunate that burping is not considered polite as it's an important and necessary function and if the gas is not released can lead to great discomfort.
Gas in the stomach can have different origins:
1. It may be ingested. We all swallow some air as we eat. This may be minimised by small mouthfuls well chewed and carefully swallowed.
2. It may be a by-product of a chemical reaction between our food and the stomach acid - as baking soda and vinegar produce carbon dioxide.
3. It may be form fermentation of fodds remaining in the stomach too long.
It is best released as a burp. It's retention will give rise to that feeling of bloating.
It may sound counter-intuitive but slowly drinking some carbonated water can help the management of gas release.
To help ingeneral, you should eat little and often. I'm guessing the former part isn't so difficult but it is equally important to have 5 or 6 small sized snacks / meals a day.
It may not be necessary to only eat land foods. Determine for yourself which foods cause you the most problems. I sympathis with your condition as I experience these symptoms myself. However, personally, I find I manage curries better than salads.
All the best
Chris
sharon59270 Barretts
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I eat now mainly banana, toast, peaches and veg, and drink lots of water. My stomach barely tolerates them.
This all started when I started on b12 injections. I expected to feel energised and ended up with my acid problems. I don t know if the b12 had anything to do with it.
Anyway thanks for explaining things for me, it makes me feel a bit better knowing what is happening in my stomach.
JFWski sharon59270
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jesspugs sharon59270
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I was diagnosed about a month ago and my symptoms include dizziness, tingling in the arms, constant rising of water in my throat, burping up food and water, feeling like I can't breath ( this is my biggest problem) excess mucuse, out of breath when walking or doing anything straineous and just constant anxiety that I'm not going to be able to breath. It has made me constantly worried and scared to go camping or hiking or things that I love! Because I constantly feel like j can't breath. I also have had my throat hurting a lot and when I talk to much I feel like I am dying!
I am on omeprazole as well as taking gaviscon extra strength (which is what helps me the most) I sleep on a wedge and go to a special chiropractor which also helps! It's called back in motion. My ENT honestly hasn't helped at all and I see a speech therapist November 1st 2015 so we will see if that helps at all!
I wish I could tell you I have found relief but there are days when it's worse and days when it's better but it has effected my life so much! So if you didn't relief please let me know! I know a lot of people on here have done alkine diets
Barretts jesspugs
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And alkaline diets are a myth. Alkaline foods will be around pH 7.7. If meeting a litre and a half of hydrochloric acid at pH 1, it would require an immense quantity to make any difference - far more than your body could take in one go.
If food entering the stomach is highly alkaline, the stomach reacts to make more proton pumps and produce more acid. The net effect is always the same: however acidic or alkaline the foods entering the stomach, the stomach will try to normalise it's highly acidic environment when food is there. That's why PPIs work: they prevent the formation of some of the proton pumps.
Any effects people report from alkaline diets are purely placebo.
Barretts jesspugs
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jesspugs Barretts
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Yeah I will need to do something because it's miserable! I always feel like I can't breath and my throat will kill me and when I burp I always burp food up like when you puke in your mouth! And I just constantly have so much mucus in my throat! It just honestly causes me so much stress and anxiety! I feel as though the doctors never help me and my omeprazole doesn't help! When I talk a lot it is worse as well!
Barretts jesspugs
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Just earlier today I was reading a report in the Summer 2015 edition of the Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medice entitled, "Chronic Asthma and Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease: The Treatment Plans" in which the authors from Mashhad University in Iran state: "Medication treatment via proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), such as Omeprazole, H2 receptor blockers (Ranitidine), and other antireflux medications, is appropriate for ameliorating GERD and asthma. Moreover, surgery is another useful approach to GERD and asthma treatment."
To ameliorate reflux, to quote another study I was accessing today (from Respirology, March 2014): "surgery [is] indicated to control severe GER since fundoplication eliminates reflux of any kind."
Have you considered this? For me it was the best thing I ever did.
jesspugs Barretts
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So you had surgery?! Because I was diagnosed with "LPR" laryngopharyngeal reflux and honestly I just can't handle the constantly feeling like I can't breath! I went to the fair last night and was walking around and couldn't catch my breath! It is so miserable! I will talk to my dr about what I can do next! What were your symptoms
Barretts jesspugs
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I would get the chronic reflux cough so bad I'd practically pass out coughing at least once a day. At night, I'd sit up between 2:00am and 4:00 am coughing and swigging far too much cough suppressant from the bottle. (And I had my bed head raised and hadn't eaten nor drunk for hours before going to bed.)
When I wasn't coughing I'd get the mucous build up in the throat that caused constant throat clearing. And a whole list of other reflux symptoms; ears, nose, throat , sinus, mouth, even eyes were affected.
But the fundoplication cured all that. Well, to be honest, I still get a slight cough but nothing like what I used to experience.
The operation itself took just over an hour. I felt no pain afterwards other than some bruising to te abdomen. I had one night in hospital and went home the next day. I gradually progressed form small meals of soft foods (You feel full very quickly) to normal solid foods and normal quantities over a few weeks. I was off drugs, my energy came back and I lost about 20 pounds in weight (although I wasn't overweight before). For me, it was thye best thing I ever did, even though it came loose a few years later following a violent bout of norovirus that turned my stomch inside out retching continuously for 5 hours. I have since had a Collis-Nissen revision that is far less likely to come loose.
jesspugs Barretts
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I get the constant mucus build up and will caugh and swallow and try clearing my throat, and it started as I think acid cuz I had chest pains and honestly the symptoms
Have changed over time then gotten better then gotten worse it's just no winning!
Barretts jesspugs
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The operation has been carried out for 60 years, the last 20 of which laparoscopically (keyhole surgery). There was a recent paper published following up on nearly 200 patients who had the Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication 20 years ago. It revealed 94% satisfaction.
If you find the DownWithAcid or uk site, at the bottom of the Contents list (home page), you'll find a NCE Option grid as Appendix 2 which discusses the pros and cons of lifetime medication vs surgery.
You'll also find a chapter on the various fundoplication procedures on the site, too.
Barretts rex_44766
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I have only been answering questions.
May I ask what your qualifications are? And what about Jodie's and Jann's qualifications?
I have spent 15 years studying Barrett's Oesophagus and acid reflux. I attend conferences. I receive (and keep an archive of) all the latest research, daily. I consider many eminent gastroenterologist medics, professrs and surgeons amongst my friends. I have even been phoned up and consulted by them. My wife's son is anoncologist. And I spend most of my time helping people on various facebook groups and forums worldwide.
My warning is not to see other therapies and treatmenst as alternatives but consider them as complementary. I do not wish to alarm. I usually stress the risks of cancer are minimal but you needto be aware of them. I know of too many patients who have died because they decided not to go with the proven path but try other therapies as alternatives.
It's a wonderfully pious thing to say our bodies heal themselves but they don't regrow limbs nor cure themselves of cancer.
jodie77731 Barretts
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Barretts jodie77731
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I see the moderators have seen fit to delete his post.
I realise most people posting here are just posting personal stories and anecdotal evidence of this king has a place.
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