Hello all,
I've been reading lots of threads in this forum for a while and found lots of useful information.So I am posting my questions here to see if I can get some helpful advice.
The symptoms that I have right now is chronic pain in the place right below Adam's apple. I can feel it since I wake up. Besides, I will sometimes have a burning sensation in that place after a meal. I also have the sensation of a lump in my throat. But right now,I don't have any GERD symptoms.
I noticed when I am on PPI and a low acid diet(see Dr.Kaufman's low acid diet), I will less likely to experience the burning sensation. But it helped nothing with the chronic pain in the place below Adam's apple. It feels like something there is inflamed. I tried Elavil as some of the members here suggested for LPR, I did get some immediate relief for the pain.
I had a sudden onset of burning sensation on throat and chest in last August, and I had an endoscopy
in last December, which indicated that I have a 2cm hiatal hernia and my GE junction is a bit inflamed. I was prescribed on 40 mg Protonix Daily for 2 months. Now I am totally free from GERD symptoms but as I said PPI did not help anything with the symptoms on my neck.
I have also done a manometry test and a 24 ph monitoring test after a 2 month treatment on PPI. Test results show that both my UES and LES are fine and I do not have an abnormal reflux.
So my questions are:
1. Why does Elavil help to relieve the chronic pain in my neck? If it is nerve related problem, why doesn't it help
with the pain when I got burning sensation?
2.For those of you who fix your LPR with Elavil, How long were you on medication for?
Any comments or suggestions will be highly appreciated!
Post Edited (kaih09) : 3/23/2015 6:25:47 AM (GMT-6)