New here

Hi all,

I'm new to GERD and just want to know if this can ever get better or if anyone has had any luck finding something hat works.

I have had IBS for about 15 years but over the past several months I started having different symptoms. Instead of the usual low abdominal pains they were up in my stomach area and I had one rough night of indigestion. about a month ago I felt a hot sensation in my throat and it wouldn't go away. I went to my doctor who put me on prevacid which did nothing, so she switched me to Tecta. It helps a bit but I still have some form of heartburn everyday. It's mostly mild, but I just want it to be gone for good. I also have to take Zantac but some days nothing really helps.

I hate the thought of being on meds forever so I've been looking into diet changes (other than the usually prescribed no caffeine, no spice, etc.) and I've gone extremely low carb for the past few days. It seemed to help, but today I'm feeling hot in my throat again. I'm also a very anxious person and have a lot of things in my life that contribute to that. These things will never go away so I need to find a way to cope with that as well.

I had a scope done in March for the stomach pains to check for ulcers and h. Pylori. It was all negative and everything looked normal. The biopsy showed reactive gastropothy but the doctors weren't concerned with that.

I've had other doctors tell me that my stomach is irritated and once I heal that I should be better, but figuring out how to heal what I don't understand isn't exactly easy. Doctors are not helping, they mostly just throw more pills at me and get me out the door.

I can't eat or drink much, I'm sticking to water only as that's the only thing that doesn't make it too much worse, and I sleep sitting up. Needless to say I'm exhausted and losing weight.

Has anyone gotten long term relief from low carb or any other diet changes? Or anything else for that matter?