Is this really Acid Reflux i'm experiencing?

I use it to breath in regularly and for the first time last night I slept through the whole night and when I woke only a slight cough although wheezing comes and goes during the day as it did before so am persevering with it. YOu can get one on a m azon. and they dont cost much and the salt in them lasts for five years so quite cost effective (am sick andtired of payng out for things that do not work).

I tend to try to go for things that help health overall so if they do not help with the reflux then they help with immun e system or cell count or whateverr as well or instead.

Am also taking biotics and take one course after another,where it is very important to check out the strains but do not be fooled when it says contains 2 billion,this is a small number, but i also make my own yoghurt sometimes just get sick and tired of eating it. If you buy yoghurt in the shop it must be live and no sugar or fruit. In my case none of those things like tomatoes etc exacerbate it, only laying down or eating, no matter what it is. But it is important to remember that we all have it for a different reason. In my case I believe it is because of takng antibiotics etc and now having to redress the flora gut balance, with others it is the muscle that needs tightening etc.

For what it's worth I also have chest "twinges", which are biased to my right hand side from the front, under my armpit, and round to my right shoulder blade (which can get particularly uncomfortable), and the worse the pain is, the tighter my chest generally feels and breathing is difficult.  Its not just afte I've eaten either, I've found no trend or pattern to when these breathless "attacks" occur. I've been formally diagnosed with acid reflux through investigations.  Omeprazole and other acid suppressing PPI's are not silver bullets, and need a corresponding diet/lifestyle change to reduce acidic food intake which will exacerbate any existing condition related to acid reflux.  Omeprazole doesn't target bile either, so different med's would be needed if this was the issue. 

Do you have any other symptoms?  In the end I created a timeline and list of symptoms and forcefully put it to my GP that I needed a referral (which I could get quickly followed up with Bupa through my employer).  My experience is that GP's (I seen five different one's at my surgery) are completely apathetic him it comes to SCS reflux diagnosis, as they thought it was psychological until I had a laryngoscopy. 

I had to go into a house that was full of damp yesterday, it was very bad, and that made me cough, but that is normal, and it wont happen again as I wont go there again.

Porksoda omeprazole also did not work for me. In fact it seemed to make me more wheezy if anything.

Perhaps because it is low acid rather than high acid which is the problem.

Today am starting to take a new regime of probiotics but am making sure I take the prebiotic with them. In fact if you do this then you can make the probiotics last longer. You can use a much small dose of them but they still help because the prebiotic feeds them. I get onion bhajis and freeze them.

Then whenever I eat a probiotic I have a quater of onion bhaji with it as the prebiotic to feed it, otherwise you could simply take an onion and chop it up and put it in a sauce with some water and use a bit each time. You can use honey but trying to avoid sweet things. YOu can also use oats.

Google prebiotics if this interests you.

Very few people hve acid reflux because of a magnesium deficiency anyway. Magnesium would LOOSEN the splincter muscle

and this is not always a good thing when most are looking to tighten it.

I now take bicarbonate of soda to help, with citric acid and potassium bicarbonate so there are no worries re salt.

There are lots of other natural alternatives you would find easily enough online if you google them, most of them available from online shops to be sent to you quickly at a fair price.

If you want more magnesium it should be actual magnhesium not milk of magnesia.

As for diarrhea, most of us watch what we eat and make sure we get alot of fibre, which makes diarrhea virtually impossible.

You should never just copy someone else's way as being yours as we are all different and you need to research onlne a lot to get a ful list of possibilities.

I did mention magnesium glycinate for supplementation rather than milk of magnesia. Furthermore, you mention that not a lot of people have had acid reflux from a magesnium deficiency; however, with the large sample pool that is https://patient.info I'd imagine that someone here could benefit from a possible solution that hasn't been remedied by the advice given already. 

I wasn't aware of the different medical practices in the UK (from the US), so I'll just dismiss myself from this forum/site. Thank you for letting me know. 

It is free speech but unfortunately most of what you read on such forums is badly written or misinformed because most who read it assume everyone is the same as them or do not research things properly. Since I came here I have had dozens of people wanting me to give my phone number to them or my private email address hoping I would sit here all day long researching for them and then giving them the results they want. Well to those I say dream on. One lady wanted me to research arthritis for her when I don't have it and do not know anyone who has it. So as she is the one who has it and she has far more spare time than me she can be the one who researches it. She doesn't work, she sits and watches tv all day. So it would be a far better use of her time.

I have to find time to research my own things.

There must be someone somewhere who would be pleased to hear what you have to say. You will find those who take these things seriously will have already tried lots of possible aids and have moved on to another and anohter and heard most of it before.

Melatonin has not been mentioned for a while. Some will swear by that. But it is for those who have problems with anxiety.

And you can get addicted to it and you have to keep increasing the dose later.

A naturopath will tell you to eath loads of fruit and vegetables.

Yet the likehood is he has never had the illness himself.

Most people are lazy and impatient and want and instant quick fix so they do not bother to research it as much as they should or they simply want to read up on what other people have found out. Then they wonder why they are still ill!

Remember there are different causes to acid reflux and it whether something works will have a lot to do with the cause.

Very interesting. Were you on a ppi when you started your magnesium treatment? One of the worst side effects of ppi's is low magnesium, causing problems with calcium and vitamin d