Acid reflux help

[Judystilldreamsofhorses]

I am suffering with an unlovely combination of post-nasal drip (allergies) and what I think is acid reflux. I’m on prescription meds for allergies, but am waking up with a sore throat every day - usually goes after a cup of tea - and my dentist suggested it might be reflux when I was in for a checkup the other week. I’ve done some reading and that seems to fit.

Symptoms are:

Mucus-y feeling in throat
Throat feels irritated and sore in the morning
Often wake up coughing
Certain foods make me feel really burny in my chest - coked cheese and chocolate cake, for example!

Does this ring a bell with other sufferers?

I’m 48 and I suspect peri which google tells me can trigger it. I’m a healthy weight and eat a mainly vegetarian diet, very little red meat, chicken maybe once a week, bacon sandwich at the weekend.

I have a GP phone appointment booked for next month - does anyone know if they will be able to prescribe anything without seeing me? It’s a four week wait just for a telephone call. A friend who suffers from it suggested trying Gaviscon advance and I feel like my throat is much less mucus-y after a few days of taking it, but it is pretty expensive to buy over the counter.

Thanks so much for reading and any advice.

@Waterloo7 I am much the same. The doctor took me off the reflux meds after the HP treatment, and it was awful! I “saw” another GP earlier this month and am now back on them, and a different nasal spray. I have tried to modify my diet but it is hard - my DP is away for a fortnight with work and I plan to eat really bland foods then and try to “reset” things. Excluding things like onions, garlic, and tomatoes is very difficult, but on my own I can happily just eat porridge and scrambled eggs!

@Judystilldreamsofhorses

I am suffering with an unlovely combination of post-nasal drip (allergies) and what I think is acid reflux. I’m on prescription meds for allergies, but am waking up with a sore throat every day - usually goes after a cup of tea - and my dentist suggested it might be reflux when I was in for a checkup the other week. I’ve done some reading and that seems to fit.

Symptoms are:

Mucus-y feeling in throat
Throat feels irritated and sore in the morning
Often wake up coughing
Certain foods make me feel really burny in my chest - coked cheese and chocolate cake, for example!

Does this ring a bell with other sufferers?

I’m 48 and I suspect peri which google tells me can trigger it. I’m a healthy weight and eat a mainly vegetarian diet, very little red meat, chicken maybe once a week, bacon sandwich at the weekend.

I have a GP phone appointment booked for next month - does anyone know if they will be able to prescribe anything without seeing me? It’s a four week wait just for a telephone call. A friend who suffers from it suggested trying Gaviscon advance and I feel like my throat is much less mucus-y after a few days of taking it, but it is pretty expensive to buy over the counter.

Thanks so much for reading and any advice.

Beconnaise steroid nasal spray is what was prescribed to me for PND. If was life-changing and wonderful, until a year later when I was one of the rare people who got nosebleeds and had to stop taking it. Now I have the awful symptoms you describe all the time and no treatment. If you are prescribed Beconaise spray, please don't do what I did and overdose your nose! And PS - you can actually buy it without prescription which is worth knowing if you have to pay for prescriptions - it costs less to buy it.

The PND seems to go with reflux/gerds. I have tried all the usual things without much success. I have gone into menopause and doctor thinks that is what started it off.

@Judystilldreamsofhorses thank you for coming back to me. I ended up seeing private ENT guy and I've had 20mg omeprazole twice a day for a month and have now dropped to 10mg - I am also on Rinatec nasal spray. When I dropped to 10mg I started to feel the symptoms come back and with the use of Gaviscon now keeping them at bay. But when I come off 10mg I think i will be back to square one.

I'm just like you with allergies (but non specific ones - been allergy tested) plus silent acid reflux. The acid reflux was pretty much hidden until September so this is all a rotten surprise.

I'm sure this is menopause related. Never had allergies or reflux until now. Its the sore throat I really don't like as it makes you start to question is it really reflux.

Thank you for sharing your experience - it comforting to know its not just me.

Ha, I am in my 40s so sure I am also in peri. I'm on a nasal spray called Mometasone and 20mg of Omeprazole for now. I feel like I am a bit less mucus-y/sore throat in the mornings, but still wake up coughing. I've always had allergies and been medicated for those, and they have stepped up massively since Covid and WFH - I am sorry to say I think I am mildly allergic to my lovely cat! I've not been seen in person by anyone since Covid so actually it could be anything, but the doctor I "saw" last said she didn't recommend any further investigations based on my symptoms.