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Can GERD cause shortness of breath & cough?
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To leelou03- I can only relate to you, my issues, and tell you that I always practiced being an active person, biking, exercising, walking, and I thought eating healthy. This whole thing with GERD, and LPR has caused me so much anxiety that sometimes I think I am going to have a coronary. My voice has changed, I can barely sing in church, I have a chronic cough, and so many secretions in my throat, that I cannot be around people, as I am embarrassed with constantly clearing my throat. I have seen GI, ENT, and an Allergist. I finally resigned myself to the fact that this is never going to go away, and I need to accept it, and do all the things they tell you to do to try and make it better. I also meditate and pray when I feel an anxiety attack coming on--not for everyone, but it helps me . God bless you in your journey.
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I also had lots of coughing,breathing issues . I was diagnosed by ent with lpr or silent reflux or respiratory reflux. Check out Dr. Jamie Koufmans website to understand what it is. I also researched vcd disorder and doing certain exercises helps. Coughing makes it worse and one of the exercises ,swishing your tongue over your front teeth 5 times on each side helps stop the coughing. Sounds silly but it helped me. I also drink alkaline water all day that helps. Hope u feel better. 😘
Did you have covid? Plenty of us who have been diagnosed with post covid syndrome or long covid, have similar symptoms.
To rosemaryhow
I have the exact same problem as you. Coughing, thick mucus, difficult to be social. I have to spit this thick mucus out constantly especially after eating.
My quality of life has changed so much I get very down.I just keeping on keeping on. I also have dysphasia so it’s difficult to even drink fluids.
I have all the symptoms of GERD and I’m on 2 meds.
Thanks for sharing.
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rosemaryhow a friend of mine had your symptoms and finally had imagine of sinuses. The ENT cleared the sinuses and her symptoms went away. Is that a possibility for you? She no longer constantly clears her throat!