Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

Is it acid reflux?

I been depressed cuz of a lot of health issues I have and I went to a ENT the other day cause I might have acid reflux. I don’t have heartburn or burning or acid taste. But doctor said you have it with those symptoms, I only have dry cough, burping a lot and feeling something stuck in throat. But it’s like this all day. I had bad Dry coughs as times.. but now it’s just suddenly there all the time. Can anxiety cause this? Can it be something else? I set my GI doctor this week too see if that is it.

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Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

Just be sure it's not a health obsession if that's a typical issue with your OCD. This is not at all a diagnosis but my experience with acid reflux has been that it feels like there's something slowly eating away at my esophagus, constant coughing, and eventually vomiting when it got really bad. Talk to your doctor before coming to any conclusions though.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous Yeah it doesn’t feel like my throat is being eaten away. I could literally have two sips of coffee and I’ll dry cough or eat anything Ik dry cough. And even when I burp it dosent taste acidity

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) Hmm, hard to say really. Before I started taking Omeprazole, everything triggered my acid reflux. I remember even carrots used to start it too. Yeah, I'd say see what your GI doctor says and go from there.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

It sucks though cause I never had it before. And I already have stomach issues. I was wondering if it was my Zoloft but I been on it for 6 years

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

Whether or not Zoloft is causing it, I'm not too sure honestly. I have heard there can be side effects but that's beyond my experience to say.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

Was there any tests you done that diagnosed you with it?

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

No lab tests, but the doctor put 2 and 2 together and prescribed me medication which helped. Eventually I was tested for H. Pylori to see if that was the cause of the acid reflux, but that's about it.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous I went to an ENT specialist because my G.I. doctor which is also my primary doctor recommended me to see one and they did a test and my throat wasn’t irritated or anything and I don’t know what he meant by that, but he said the symptoms I was mentioning or just general symptoms, and just thinks I have acid reflux but I don’t know. I read up online that there is a test they could do to measure how much acid that’s in your stomach but I don’t know also, thank you for responding and talk to me about your issues with it because this been going on for a couple months now.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) You're welcome, happy to help. Have you tried changing your diet to make it more acid reflux "friendly" to see if that helps at all? It might provide your doctor with more information. There's guides online on what foods to avoid. You mentioned coffee; that's usually one of the drinks doctors might tell you to avoid cause it has a tendency of triggering AR.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

Yeah, I started drinking coffee again recently I stopped having coffee just to see because I also have IBS and I switched to a gluten-free diet. I don’t have anything acidic really I don’t like tomato sauce I don’t he having meals I don’t even eat a lot as it is.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) I don’t eat big meals*

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

Hmm, that's hard. I can't say one way or the other and I don't want to tell you to take medication without your doctor's permission. Maybe ask your doctor if it's ok to take some sort of medicine for acid reflux just temporarily to see if it helps. See what/if they prescribe you anything.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous Hello! Sorry, I thought I responded to you but I did see my doctor and he prescribed me medication for acid reflux to give it a try and see if it works

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous I was supposed to get an endoscopy done, but I have to try medication first before I could get that done which to me makes no sense but I’ll just give it a try and see if it helps

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) Hope it works! Keep me updated :) They probably want to avoid taking more extreme measures if it's not needed. During the endoscopy, they have to feed a small camera to your stomach, starting from your mouth. I've never done it, but I imagine it's an uncomfortable experience. Just a guess.

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous For the acid reflux medicine, is it a long term thing or do you only take it for a certain period of time?

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) I take Omeprazole once daily and it's basically a life long thing. Doctors don't know why I have it so bad. Initially I was supposed to take medication for a period of time and then see if it stops. It never did. But so long as I take this medication, I don't get acid reflux 99% of the time. They also checked for H. Pylori (probably caught it when I was visiting another country) and treated that. Still didn't help. Now I've just accepted that I may never know why I have it lol, and I just take my medication and go about life.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) But that's just my experience. It could very well be that it's a temporary thing for you! I'll pray for your healing. Honestly, even if it's a life long thing, and you're able to manage it, it's not so bad :)

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous Thank you! I hope it’s not a long-term thing, but who knows. And if it is a well as long as the medicine helps. I appreciate it!:) it definitely is uncomfortable and even if I take it and it helps I’m not too sure if I could still have coffee while taking the medicine because I’ll probably end up having acid reflux anyway.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Anna:) :( yeah it's definitely not a fun time. Wish there was a better solution out there. I will say that I can have coffee just fine as long as I'm on the medicine. Might be the case with you too, who knows

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous I hope that’s the case with me! I know it takes about 4 weeks! But I hope it helps!

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

Did you get any side effects such as headaches when you first started taking omparizole? For some reason, I usually get them at the end of the day. Do not like horrible headaches it’s just kind of dull pain.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

No, never. Omeprazole has had almost no side effects over the years I've been taking it. It's possible that you might be having side effects but I'm not sure. How many days have you been taking it and have the headaches only happened since you started taking it?

Anna:)

Date posted: 2y

I started getting a headache probably later on in the day when using it: and I get them on and off towards the end of the day. And also feel very tired and I feel like a burp a lot more with this medication but I only been on it for like a week and a half. Especially when I take it in the morning I try to drink a lot of water cause I end up coughing cause the Medication tickles my throat after a few minutes of swallowing it

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

I've never experienced anything like that personally. Your doctor might have more answers though

Bobbbbby

Date posted: 23w

Acid Reflux

Hello, I just wanna put my thoughts onto something to hopefully release them. I have health ocd/anxiety which comes with googling and overthinking. Lately, I’ve been have stomach issues and acid reflux on new SSRI medication and convince myself I have SIBO or a weird disease. I then I looked into gastric diseases then freak myself out more for days on end. I’m am trying to use the ERP and saying “Mabye I do mabye I don’t”; but I always end up doing stuff to make it worse. If I have any advice don’t google, I should take my own advice😂. I have a few appointments to make sure nothings wrong which I know logically nothings wrong but for some reason I still think something is really wrong. (If you have similar stuff DONT look it up, it’ll just say the worst thing, ignorance is bliss 😭😂) Not expecting a response, just wanted to “release” my thoughts. Hopefully I help someone who is going the same thing. Anyways hope everyone is doing good and making progress in their life. :)

MichaelVu2010

Date posted: 21w

Somatic Ocd

Hello, Yesterday I’ve suddenly had problems with swallowing and my anxiety. like im scared of choking and would have a panic attack every-time i try to swallow food or water. Is there anyway to treat this?

PRIV8

Date posted: 18w

Acid reflux symptoms are annoying

I have bad cough and now weird chest symptoms, sometimes pain, sometimes burning, sometimes like a stabbing feeling or idk how to tell it. I know its not dangerous but its really annoying, i didnt had this bad acid reflux for years and idk why it happend... i cant eat anything. I dont have that acid taste in my mouth, its just the chest pressure and cough. I took meds but it didnt helped... What are ways to recover from acid reflux or eliminate it without meds? I kinda feel like mine is there because of stress... but now acid reflux makes me more stressful so its just feeds itself. I know its not dangerous but sometimes im afraid it will do something bad to my body. Or if not, its still stressful to deal with it and i dont want to lose my control of my emotions and start to get depressed and afraid cause i wont recover from this....

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