The acid seems to get to my lungs too. I had bad reflux about 4 years ago for the first time in my life, ever since then I had been taking omeprazole, I felt normal for about 3 years, until suddenly...
If you have a hernia, the only thing I can suggest is to look up some exercises that might help it, I don't know if these work in practice, but people seem to have positive results with them, and I...
It seems like you have LPR (silent reflux) IMO. Regular antacids don't usually do anything for this, I would ween yourself off the PPI, if they are doing nothing (you have to lower the dose slowly...