Typical GERD problems - How to help myself?

Hello everyone :) I am 23 year old female student from Croatia (gerd is not taken very seriously here i think and doctors are not educated enough) and iI have GERD (LA 1) that I found about a year ago but have it for 2 i think. I also have chronic gastritis caused by Helicobacter Pylori and I tried to take antibiotic therapy for 5 times in past 5 years and I can never finish it because I start throwing up and having extreme sideeffects after a day or two with any combination. I think I actually have LPR because I feel way more sympthoms in me neck and throat area than in my stomach. I'm following the diet, I am 160cm tall and have 50 kilos, I never smoked, I don't drink coffee at all ever. I was put on Controloc last year but after 2 months i decided to quit because nothing has changed and i just decided to life a different lifestyle. I have good and bad periods and now it's the bad one. In future I would like to have a surgery because i don't feel ok taking the pills for the rest of my life and it scares me to be pregnant with gerd. I have few questions:

1. If I don't feel any difference with PPI's, is it neccessary to take them? The only difference I notice is when i eat clean.

2. I never feel heartburn and I strongly believe that i dob't have extra but not enough acid, is that possible?

3. Last week I did a big mistake - I drank one beer after months of not drinking alcohol because my friend is moving and ahe had a goodbye party. I went to sleep 2 hours after that and woke up with sore throat.it's been 5 days now and my throat is even worse, i have a terrible smokey voice and it hurts pretty bad. Did i damage it that much? Will it heal and get better? What should i do? Please give me some advices.

And now I would like to say what am I doing to help myself without taking PPI's :

Aloe vera juice - I don't know if it helps but i believe it is. To me the stress and wrong food or drink is the trigger and i believe aloe vera helps healinv

Manuka honey - i took it for some time and noticed improvement with my throat so I am planning to buy another jar now - did anyone try it?

Chaning diet - i don't eat red meat, chocolate, deserts, tomatoes, fried food, spicy food etc, i don't drink coffee, i usually don't drink alcohol, orange and lemon juices... I have to say that during the days when i feel ok i sometimes cheat but if i don't eat too much everythinh is still ok.

Sorry for a very long story and thank you for responses! :))

Hey :) so glad to hear that i'm not the only very young one with this problem. I used to take a tablespoon of manuka 30 min before each main meal ( 3 times a day) and i think it worked but it's sooo expensive so i rather choose aloe vera juice even tough i can't tell if it's better or not but i believe it can't be harmful for my stomach. Sometimes i take marshmallow tea becuase it help stomach as well.

I just take it by itself, pretty nice flavour or on a piece of banana. Baking soda never used to help, a long time ago i decided to stop trying with that and apple cyder vinegar and stuff like that. I have to do gastroscopy soon, on 2 weeks to see if anything got better or worse with my esophagus.

Yes, I avoid everything from the 'no' list, you can find it anywhere if you type in ' gerd diet'. I feel like i made a damage now so i have to heal my throat and esophagus somehow, that is a long process. And thank you :)