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....

j vv

Date posted: 18w

Sorry you are going through this. I rarely get acid reflux, but it is usually triggered by something I ate. It may take a day or two for my stomach to settle afterwards. I totally understand how bodily symptoms can cause OCD spirals, too—I got hiccups for the first time in months the other day and my OCD kept shouting “Yeah, it’s hiccups, but what if the pressure and jolts around your lungs trigger a panic attack and you’re trapped in one for the whole day?? This is serious! You sure you aren’t having a panic attack? Check right now, focus only on the hiccups!” It was very difficult to disengage from the thoughts triggered by physical symptoms happening in real-time. I hope you get a chance to work on this one in therapy, the solution likely involves antacids, diet, and learning to not engage with OCD’s silliness through ERP. Wishing you the best of luck 💜

moon0270

Date posted: 18w

eating foods that have high water content can help and staying away from spicy, oily or high fat and sugar content foods helps. lots of fruits and veggies. drinking ginger tea helps me a lot as ginger is alkaline (despite it tasting quite 'spicy'). when i had a really bad episode last year, i had to stay on the course of meds for a while because if the reflux is really bad, it takes longer to clear up, but it does clear up. there are also over the counter antacid chewable tablets or medicines. milk of magnesia is quite helpful as well.

PRIV8

Date posted: 18w

I took rennie which is a cheweble medicine and i felt like it makes it worse.

moon0270

Date posted: 18w

@PRIV8 i find that rennie doesn't really provide much relief for me either. perhaps if you give the ginger tea a try? it's been the biggest help for me

PRIV8

Date posted: 18w

@moon027097 I drink ginger tea now and it makes the burps worse. I read ginger tea helps when you have heartburn, before i made the tea i had this feeling like theres a lump in my throat and burping wants to come out but cant, and swallowing was hard, I made the tea but now im burping and i feel like it made me feel kinda worse. Im afraid to drink the whole tea...

PRIV8

Date posted: 18w

@PRIV8 The worst thing is that i dont know what to eat, before i ate salads but that has alot of acids, so no salads for me, no meat, no bread... so theres nothing i can eat... Its just makes me sad if i need to live my life avoiding every food, I can accept avoiding spice, but it seems like everyting triggers my reflux now...

moon0270

Date posted: 18w

@PRIV8 im sorry it made you feel worse :( i feel like finding one that works for you might be a trial-and-error sort of thing, but i hope that you can get relief soon

moon0270

Date posted: 18w

@PRIV8 i think you could still eat salads as long as you're limiting how much dressing you're eating with it and you could still eat lean meats. may i ask why you can't eat bread? im not a dietician or gp, so im not an expert, but i think you could definitely ask your doctor on what they would suggest as far as food goes. i know just how frustrating it is. acid reflux can be very painful and uncomfortable and it's not an experience i would wish on anyone. if you feel like your appetite is really diminished, for a while i just sustained myself on cucumber and dry crackers or toast. i know it's quite dry and boring. having to cut out certain foods for a while was frustrating for me as well. sorry that i couldn't be of more help :(

PRIV8

Date posted: 18w

@moon027097 Dont feel bad about it, you just wanted to help. I think i might have been the sweetener that made me feel bad, i cant drink tea without sweetening it but I avoid sugar so i use sweetener but i heard that thats way worse than sugar. I said i cant eat bread cause i read that bread expecially white bread makes you bloated, so they advice is to not eat white bread. I ate whole grain bread which they say its good, i still felt bad. Salads are full of acid. People say cucumber is good, i feel like cucumber gives me acid too. So idk i just eat what i can and hope it goes away. But its hard with my health anxiety cause i notice every symptom and i assume that it will never go away. An hour ago i had burning throat, it felt like when you get sick and your throat hurts. I was afraid it that i will lose my voice because of it... Im afraid it will not go away and i will have to live my life managing this...

PRIV8

Date posted: 18w

@PRIV8 Im really struggling with how to not get angry or sad about it cause I always think its normal to feel angry or sad but I also know that those things just feeds it. I know saying its normal to feel angry is to not beat yourself over feeling angry but also letting yourself be angry makes the reflux or any other symptom worse... I never understood what is the right thing to do

IrisisBlue_.

Date posted: 23w

Do you feel the same?

I felt really overwhelmed with my thoughts and just so over it. I had my breathing controlled normally. It’s just so fucking annoying and frustrating that a normal thing like breathing is a hassle and something that I’m scared to do on a day to day basis recently. I had it controlled. I just wanna know if there’s people out there with a similar problem or something. I have this thing, this problem with a feeling of my thoughts coming out of my breath when I breathe I can’t breathe normally. It’s annoying and it takes me a couple days to finally catch my breath. I was doing good but then I ran out of my meds and the problem came back I was off my meds for 2 days. I had a breakdown about it today bc the thoughts are so perverse and I just wannabe in a normal situation again and be happy and normal it’s so hard to maintain. I don’t know what’s going on.

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. :)

Anonymous

Date posted: 20w

Chest pain

I just had a really awful chest pain that felt like my chest was exploding and im really terrified. I feel like maybe it was a heart attack but idk. I've had many ekgs and a chest x ray and they don't find anything wrong with me. Idk what this means anymore im so sick of being scared that ill die. Can anyone relate at all? It comes out of nowhere

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