Burning when swallowing help

[Boris-bobo]

Hi all

I am a new member. Little history about me. I have been suffering with GERD may years ago.. I have been on different dugs to suppress the acidity. Over Christmas I had two or three episodes of reflux during the night. My fault I had food I should have to had and late at night too. A week ago I woke up and had burning sensation I my chest. Sunday I went for lunch and I got really scared as it was very painful when food was passing through my oesophagus mainly behind the breast bone. Two days later I went to GP who advised to double my Esomeprazole 20mg morning and 20mg at night plus gaviscon. He added if it does not get better by not week I will send you for a gastroscopy. I had a gastroscopy in February 2020 which showed mild corrosive gastritis I my stomach but nothing in the oesophagus. The pain has decreased and it seems it s painful when I first have the first bit of food. After that it seems less painful. the pain is also on my left side of the chest. I dunno what to think. Could it be that I have esophagitis because of few episodes of acid reflux lately? If so a week may not be tough to heal? Ca something more serious be there considering I was checked two years ago? Any advice please? I bought some aloe vera to sooth. It seems cold water feels soothing when I drink it after food. I dot feel food getting stuck there but when I swallow it feels also in my back left shoulder. I do get burping but that's not new. o food coming up. Sorry to ask so may questions. Reading some stories I got a bit anxious unfortunately. All my my full blood count is normal as well as liver and kidnney function Thanks for reading

[hjskev]

Hi its worrying when you don't now what's going on. I haven't got the same symptoms as you but I know how worrying not having the answer can be. I have burning in my mouth rather than oesophagus. According to my doctors it's caused by silent reflux that I'm rarely aware of. I take similar meds to you to deal with it. I'm not happy taking omeprazole and I'm trying to ween myself off it at the moment so I can have a test for Helicobacter pylori. I have had this in the past and would like to rule it out as a cause. But I am hoping its the problem as its fairly easy to deal with. Have you been tested for this? I had a test a few months ago but the doc didn't tell me to stop the omeprazole first. This can result in a false negative apparently.At the moment I'm gurgling like mad, so hoping I can see it through.

As you can see I'm not much help to you but I didn't want you to feel ignored. There are people on here who know a lot more about this stuff than me so I hope an expert will be along soon. It seems though that your doc is listening to you and I hope the gastroscopy helps to sort things out. Let us know how you go on.