I've been reading old threads to try and get some useful background on why I get intermittent attacks of what I suppose the docs would call 'dyspepsia'. Never had any trouble with digestion and would have said I had an cast-iron stomach until 2 or 3 years ago, when I suddenly started with stomach pains after eating, indigestion, acid in throat etc.
Helicobacter pylori was ruled out and it isn't gallbladder issues either, apparently. I was referred for a gastroscopy but waited so long that all the symptoms had disappeared by the time the appointment came (and the nice gastro doc then said I'd only been on the list to be assessed for the procedure anyway, so he wouldn't do it!).
Symptoms largely stayed away but for the last 4-6 weeks have been awful - really bad reflux and I've been v reluctant to eat. Now that flare-up seems to have passed off again and I can eat fine (though no appetite to speak of)....but I now have what feels like a giant lump in my chest when I swallow that just won't go away. This seems quite a common thing and isn't painful at all, but it's making me feel very miserable and worried
I know I'll need to get the gastroscopy process underway again but any ideas what this could be? Hiatus hernia, perhaps?
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Yet another acid reflux one. Diagnoses welcome!
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Brillig · 29/09/2016 18:54
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