A little help please...!

[Ollyburr]

Hi all and thanks for reading! Back in January 2019 I was prescribed PPI's for terrible reflux and right sided pain just under the part of the rib before it curves around. A month on these and I felt better, pain gone. HPylori test taken 10 days after stopping treatment and negative. Pain and reflux came back within a month so fast forward to now a year later and I am still on PPi's esomeprazole. I have had a barium swallow which on the doctors notes was 'remarkable' with only a slight acid spill. I cut out coffee for months but now allow myself one a day. Symptoms seem to flare up with wine and caffeine so trying to lay off both. Reflux is okay but the pain keeps coming back. I have quite a bad fear of choking so at the minute an endoscopy is out of the question. Recently started taking zinc l carnosine after reading research on this. I also have hashimotos so really want to come off the PPi's as I am up taking tablets hours before I can eat. My question i suppose is , has anyone had similar situation to mine?

[AlanWare]

You need to make sure that you have acid reflux and not bile reflux.

[Rsw1fe]

Has an endoscopy been suggested? You can be sedated for this investigation .

[Hoarderspurple]

Is there any other option you can take apart from an endoscopy. I found it to be barbaric even with sedation.

[Janashlin]

I would be asking for an endoscopy so things are checked out correctly.

I have had quite a few of them amd with sedation I don’t remember anything about them.