heartburn

[klazien]

Does anybody here suffer from heartburn?

With me it suddenly started 2 days ago. I looked the symptoms up on google(disliked by the medical profession) but there nothing was for me since Ataxia was, as expected, not considered. I have a late onset cerebellum Ataxia and was diagnosed in 2005.

Since the cerebellum controls many muscles , I wonder if it also controls the lower oesophageal sphincter (LES).

This would be an explanation for this heartburn.

What to do?

[edfosho]

I do, I've been taking Omeprazole for almost 7 years. A few months ago I had an endoscopy down the oesophagus and they found a hiatus hernia - this is most likely causing the heartburn, but last summer I also had a videofluoroscopy which shows food travelled slowly down my oesophagus (which also doesn't help).

The oesophagus is a muscular tube, and although I haven't researched much about it (nor am I medically trained), my guess is that it's also affected by my ataxia. I have a spinocerebellar ataxia.

I have a call with a gastroenterologist at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in July, so hope to find out more.

There's some useful info and tips to ease heartburn at nhs.uk/conditions/heartburn...

[klazien in reply to edfosho]

Thank you.

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I also suffer from heartburn and take Omerprozole and also had an endoscopy about 5 years ago I presume its ataxia related as I have to be careful with diet and times I eat cant eat after 7 pm and have to avoid lots of food types spicy especially

[klazien in reply to Hidden]

thank you