Gerd

Isaac

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Joined : Apr 2016

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Posted 4/11/2016 10:03 PM (GMT 0)

Hey everyone I'm new to this forum and was hoping to seek some advice and support. I am in a horrible state and my anxiety has increased severely. idk if I have gerd but I had started to get reflux couple months ago than last month I felt the food on the back of my throat.I felt like I couldn't breath. Felt like a lump in the throat. So I made all the dietary changes and got good. For one and half week I was back to my old self and than I started eating all the wrong foods. Than out of no where I had this horrible stomach pain and had yellow diarrhea stools. I started to take probioitcs so am not getting diarrhea but been still getting yellow to green poop depending on what i eat. My stomach pain was gone but my throat got tight again like before. It's weird but the feeling of tightness went down through the esophagus and now I can feel it on the lower portion of the tube at least It feels like it. I have been taking nexium 20 mgx2 and my throat still feels tight in the middle and am having a hard time swallowing food and sometimes breathing. I am very scared and thinking something serious like the c word. Plus I lost bout 15 pounds in 3 months. What can this be and how long is it going to go on for. Plz help I just had a daughter and instead of enjoying life with my wife and baby I am depressed feeling like I'm going to die. Sorry for long post but plz help I have no one else to talk to.

Alcie

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Joined : Oct 2009

Posts : 5200

Posted 4/12/2016 12:16 AM (GMT 0)

Welcome to the forum.

You really need to see a gastroenterologist and get some simple tests done. Since you're having continuing symptoms you need to be checked for infection, parasites and what else only your doctor knows.

Changing diet when you never had a problem with it before, I would guess, isn't the answer. There is no absolute GERD diet, only foods that you happen to tolerate. Keep a food journal.

20 mg Nexium is half the prescription dose. Did a doctor tell you to take that? Twice a day probably won't work either because it's a time release pill and should last all day. You also have to take it right. Half an hour to an hour before breakfast, and the you must eat. It takes about 45 minutes for the medicine to get through the bloodstream to the acid pump cells. The pumps have to be turned on by eating so the medicine can turn them off.

I hope you will see a gastroenterologist!

Isaac

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Joined : Apr 2016

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Posted 4/12/2016 12:56 AM (GMT 0)

Thanks you very much for the response Alcie I really appreciate it! Yea a family doctor told me to take 20 mg nexium twice daily morning and night. I always ate pizza and burgers and everything sometimes I used to get acidity but not to the level I've been experiencing since 4 months. I am a fit 28 years old and I am just confused at what's going on. I was wondering that i got good in the middle so it can't be any serious diseases like god forbid esophageal cancer correct? I get so scared reading online and it raises my anxiety. Ya am planning to visit gi soon and just so terrified. How long do u think it takes for esophagus to heal
If I did inflame it.

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