esophagitis Etc

Hello everyone I'm new here so please be nice

My names Adam , I'm looking for a bit of advice if possible.

In January I had to have a gastroscopy due to feeling food stick, And a strange lump sensation when I swallowed , not globus if that makes sense a lump lower down.
Anyway I had the camera and I was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia and esophagitis.
Any way before this I had ranitidine and lansoprazole and neither worked. So when I was told what was wrong we tried Omeprazole.
This has worked until now, However I got complacent and over the past 6 weeks took my tablets sporadically.
Then of course I got all the symptoms again, warn chest, feel food the usual but this time the omeprazole is not working.
I'm due to see my GP in a week or so , But I'm worried, Ive never actually had reflux burn I could feel if that makes sense but Dr said its lower down.
Is this that rebound reflux I'm hearing off? any way everyone, thanks for the advice,
P.S I'm awful with stress and worry so I'm deffo making it worse !
Thank you
Adam

Hello Adam. We are happy that you came and looked the forum over. Esophagitis is an irritation and inflammation of the esophagus and can make swallowing bothersome. You want to heal that irritation. One of the best things you can do to help yourself is to pay close attention to what you eat and drink. Suggest that you avoid carbonated drinks like beer and soda. Cut out coffee. Avoid potato chips and fried foods. Cut out tomato products like on pizza and spaghetti. Eat very soft foods so that the irritation can start to heal then the swallowing will get better too. Baby yourself and your esophagus. You are so worth it. Please let us know how you are doing. Keep in touch. We all learn from each other.

Stay in touch with the doc. The pills stop some of the production of acid--allowing healing to take place. Re bound symptoms occur when you stop the pills as the acid starts to produce again . Stopping that medicine should be done very slowly over a kinda longer period of time-- titrate down. You need to ask the doctor about the medicine