Help!

[Starry1977]

Hi I had A very stressful event in August. My son was poorly. This lead me to develop a very tight throat with globus sensation, mucus very low in throat, horse voice and struggling to talk due to tightness. Nasty taste in throat. Gp put me on 30 mg on lansoprazole. After 4 weeks only improvement was tightness, still had yuk taste and mucus. She arranged a gastroscopy. I had to come off the lansoprazole before for two weeks. I tapered a week every other day then stopped as I didn't have much notice. Gastroscopy was clear other than a few benign stomach polyps. Day after procedure I had back and chest pain and stomach ache. At first I thought it was due to biopsies but didn't really subside. So I then tried nexium twice daily. I did this for 6 days and felt horrid so stopped. My throat felt better but now I've awful heart burn/chest pain. The taste in my mouth is worse,feels like sour milk coming up. I'm miserable. My procedure was 18th November I wish I'd never had it. I restarted Lansoprazole 2 days ago but I'm sure that makes throat mucus worse . I'm not sure if im dealing with acid rebound now or the procedure has upset my stomach. I also tried famotidine for 4 days with zero effect on the acid. I paid to see an ENT who couldn't see anything wrong and said maybe stress and silent reflux. Just at a loss this taste is awful and the my chest hurts. My throat will start mild burning towards end of the day. Ive lost a stone in weight since August.

[Buddy21]

Hi,, sorry to hear you have been feeling so unwell and I understand how scary it can be. A lot of the time the problems are low stomach acid (which by the way doctors do not always recognise or agree with) and all the medications that are given to us are decreasing the acid even more, this not helping but making the situation worse. Please research into low stomach acid.. particularly Dr Berg. He has many videos on line with great information. There are also many books out there which help and also explain low acidic diets to follow.

Please note that I'm no medical expert,, i am just sharing what has helped me..

Good luck xx

[Starry1977 in reply to Buddy21]

I just can't understand why I feel worse after gastroscopy. My throat symptoms I went with have pretty much gone but since the procedure I've nausea, chest pain and discomfort bottom of ribs. Gets worse throughout the day.

[Buddy21 in reply to Starry1977]

I too was on many different medications all of which made me worse,,abdominal pain, chest pain, hoarse voice. These medication all reduce stomach acid,, however if you are stuffing with low stomach acid then you can understand why these don’t work and can make symptoms worse. Like I said, I’m no medical expert. I can only tell you what I’ve experienced and while I do still have bad flare ups I am a lot better than what I was. You can do a home test for low stomach acid, it’s not 100% but it may give you an idea, just mixing baking soda with water. (Look up on google and it will show you the method and ratio) I do urge you to watch the many dr berg videos on acid reflux on line as it can help you understand and explain so much for you, this is what I did and I also follow a strict low acidic diet. Unfortunately there isn’t no instant cure, it does take a lot of time and lots research to understand what will work for you xx

[Deb2314]

Stick with lansoprazole. I had the same as you, still get horrible taste and dry mouth. It took a long time, and I mean months to finally be rid of acid reflux. The mucus and taste in mouth still continues, some days worse than others..... but the reflux that was taking over my daily life is no more. I'm still on lansoprazole and one day I will start to come off it to see if I can do without it. If not I'll go back on it. Just have patience and hopefully you see an improvement. Take care

[Starry1977 in reply to Deb2314]

Hi thanks I just can't understand why I'm feeling worse after the gastroscopy. I didn't have chest pain before. How long was it before you saw any improvement? My throat felt better off it but now I've got the chest pain and typical reflux symptoms.

[Deb2314]

They found i had H Pylori so had to take two different antibiotics. I never had chest pain, unless the reflux was bad and then I had the pain between breast bones. I say it was a couple of months at least for the lansoprazole to ease the reflux, but I continued and now it's around a year on and im still on lansoprazole with no reflux, but I do watch what I eat and drink.