Around a week ago I got a calcium and magnesium pill stuck in my lower oesophagus. I had back pain for a few hours followed by nausea, diarreah and dizzyness. The following day I developed what I thought could be silent reflux symptoms, lots of wierd tasting foamy saliva and a hard bloated stomach but no pain or heartburn. I took gavicon and changed my diet but there was no improvement.
For the past week I have had these symptoms coupled with dizzyness, racing heart and nausea. I went to the gp and she prescribed a ppi, omeprazole for 4 weeks.
I am hesitant to take it however becuase I have read ppis don't address the cause and only mask symptons. I don't want to be on it long term becuase I have oestopenia and they are bad for bones.
I am really not sure what I should do. I did try the ppi one day and it did seem to help, excess saliva stopped and other symptoms better, but I am not sure whether this was becuase it lowered my anxiety.
Do these symptoms sound like silent reflux or could they just be down to anxiety? If I don't take the ppi am I putting my health at risk?