Ii have a hiatus hernia which drs won’t operate on. It causes so much pain in my chest my throat burns constantly, nothing helps ii have two pantoprazole in the morning an 300 ranitidine at night. Gaviscon Alday!! Try to avoid anything that will upset me but seems even water does.
Please Must be something that will stop the burning sensation.
Dr suggest amitriptyline but it knocks me out and makes me so groggy ii don’t wanna live my life like that.
Thanks 😊
Leigh x
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Ideally for lesser or higher of the HH the root cause treatments are LINX band and Nissen Nissen fundoplication360 respectively. Subject to your individual underlying issues.
Was there any reason given when you mentioned "dr wont operate"?
They said my ‘ tubes’ guessing windpipe or whatever they wrap around the hernia, not sure the professional word for it are to small, so respectfully if they op there would be a high chance it would become to tight and ii would then have swallowing problems.
Does the team know of LINX band laparoscopic surgery for the lesser of HH? Please do ask next time for the referral to consult on it.
Long term acid management is not a good thing. I got my cancer due to the same. Tendency is to keep experimenting with variety of PPI and other medicines which try reducing your acid quantity or strength and these do not deal with the HH. That's mechanical problem, can not be fixed with medicines. Requires either surgical fix or alike.
But then your consultant and surgeon may know best for your conditions, if you consulted with them and not only the GPs.
If I were you I would practice keeping peaceful mind and no stress anxiety at all without amy meds. That's helps a great deal to relax the muscles in the diaphragm.
Keep knocking on the doors of consultants till you earn the surgery or root cause fix.
Really hard with 3 children but ii do try haha!! Yeah ii won’t give up trying till they do something to fix the hernia.
Will ring tomo and try get an appointment sorted to discus Linx just looked into never seen it before looks brilliant. Going to see about having that done.
I’m sure they’ll find a reason to shoot that down.
Can only emphasise with your situation. With three children it's all the time bending and all activities which out pressure on the stomach which makes the GORD worst.
I had a 24 hour PH test done; and it come back 0 acid at all.
This was with me bein of my meds for 3 days clear. It took 2 weeks of not taken the meds for my symptoms to be really bad. With really bad chest pains throat pains etc.
But me and the consultant was unsure on why it would come back so low. Well not there at all. They want me to repeat the test: and take amitriptyline.
Have any input on this. Sorry to be a pain: u seem more clued up than my dr x
I would be very wary of taking pain killers when the damage to tissues is the real issue that the pain is indicating? You wouldn’t take pain killers for a broken limb but leave it broken would you?
I was prescribed Lanzaprozole but experienced crippling side effects so, like you, find that pretty much every food and drink Causes pain and reflux. I have cut out meat (requires more intensive digesting and produces more acid) and don’t eat in the evening (usually).
So happy for you that something is being done! Life is quite miserable with a continuous cough, choking and pain and knowing that cancer is a possibility if the condition is untreated. Hope it all goes well.
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