Esophageal spasm

I recently had a endoscopy, with a 48hr bravo ph monitoring test completed a few weeks ago,
the results showed a I have a sliding esophageal hiatal herina with non acid reflux, I have been taking 20mg of Famotidine 1x a day for approximately almost a year, with tums, rolaids when needed to calm the heartburn with seems to help, due to the fact that I was having heartburn pretty much everyday before I started the Famotidine.
My question is,
I've been having esophageal spasms pretty much every day throughout the day since the endoscopy, along with chest pain, heaviness in my chest, shortness of breath, which is creating alot of anxiety, which I'm sure isn't helping the spasms.
When I have the spasms, I don't feel acid coming back into my esophagus, but I do have shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, it feels like something caught in my throat.
Also on two separate occasions
I couldn't swallow or breath for what seemed like a few seconds or so, once I drank some warm water, that seem to relaxe my throat enough to swallow and catch my breath again.
My question has anyone else experienced the same non acid esophageal spasms with shortness of breath, if so is there a medication maybe you take that helps without a ton of crazy side effects that will calm the spasms down?
Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I recently had a endoscopy, with a 48hr bravo ph monitoring test completed a few weeks ago,
the results showed a I have a sliding esophageal hiatal herina with non acid reflux, I have been taking 20mg of Famotidine 1x a day for approximately almost a year, with tums, rolaids when needed to calm the heartburn with seems to help, due to the fact that I was having heartburn pretty much everyday before I started the Famotidine.
My question is,
I've been having esophageal spasms pretty much every day throughout the day since the endoscopy, along with chest pain, heaviness in my chest, shortness of breath, which is creating alot of anxiety, which I'm sure isn't helping the spasms.
When I have the spasms, I don't feel acid coming back into my esophagus, but I do have shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, it feels like something caught in my throat.
Also on two separate occasions
I couldn't swallow or breath for what seemed like a few seconds or so, once I drank some warm water, that seem to relaxe my throat enough to swallow and catch my breath again.
My question has anyone else experienced the same non acid esophageal spasms with shortness of breath, if so is there a medication maybe you take that helps without a ton of crazy side effects that will calm the spasms down?
Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Ugh, that sounds horrible. And I thought I had it bad. I haven't pursued any other diagnostics since this all started. It sounds like I might have 1 of your dysfunctions...where food gets stuck on the way down at the esophagus and yes...it feels like a heart attack. Super painful. I suspect that, after a plethora of tests, they either won't find anything or, like you, won't be able to do anything about it. Do you take any meds for any of this? Thank you for reaching out

Have you had your magnesium levels checked. These meds can cause muscle spasms due to low Mag. along with heart palpitations.

I had a Heller myotomy and Nissen fundoplication done 8 years ago and also several upper endoscopies with esophageal dilation, but still have esophageal spasms that can get quite painful. Feels like food does not want to go down, chest pain and pressure that feel like heart attack. I had cardiac evaluation which was normal. My gastroenterologist said that there is a medication that can help, but it causes constipation which means I cannot take it, suffering from severe constipation also. At this point, I guess I just need to eat slowly and keep anxiety down and learn to live with it. It seems that after you reach 70 everything becomes chronic and incurable!

They are wanting to do a Heller Myotomy with a Nissan as well but if the fundoplication is to tight then you just went through a worthless procedure.
Fun fact, not sure if it's a good or bad thing but I'm a retired GI nurse and witnessed complications with both the Heller and the Myotomy.
No easy answer 🤷‍♀️
However I am curious as to what medicine you referred to.
Constipation is not a problem for me, along with this issue I have EPI, yes post Covid, so I truly wouldn't know what to do if I had a solid BM, lol

I recently had a endoscopy, with a 48hr bravo ph monitoring test completed a few weeks ago,
the results showed a I have a sliding esophageal hiatal herina with non acid reflux, I have been taking 20mg of Famotidine 1x a day for approximately almost a year, with tums, rolaids when needed to calm the heartburn with seems to help, due to the fact that I was having heartburn pretty much everyday before I started the Famotidine.
My question is,
I've been having esophageal spasms pretty much every day throughout the day since the endoscopy, along with chest pain, heaviness in my chest, shortness of breath, which is creating alot of anxiety, which I'm sure isn't helping the spasms.
When I have the spasms, I don't feel acid coming back into my esophagus, but I do have shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, it feels like something caught in my throat.
Also on two separate occasions
I couldn't swallow or breath for what seemed like a few seconds or so, once I drank some warm water, that seem to relaxe my throat enough to swallow and catch my breath again.
My question has anyone else experienced the same non acid esophageal spasms with shortness of breath, if so is there a medication maybe you take that helps without a ton of crazy side effects that will calm the spasms down?
Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I've had numerous Botox and dilations with no improvement.
As crazy as it sounds any thing peppermint, spearmint makes it worse.
Tried Nitroglycerin, channel blockers, nothing.
I am going to look into the nortryptiline. Thank you

I recently had a endoscopy, with a 48hr bravo ph monitoring test completed a few weeks ago,
the results showed a I have a sliding esophageal hiatal herina with non acid reflux, I have been taking 20mg of Famotidine 1x a day for approximately almost a year, with tums, rolaids when needed to calm the heartburn with seems to help, due to the fact that I was having heartburn pretty much everyday before I started the Famotidine.
My question is,
I've been having esophageal spasms pretty much every day throughout the day since the endoscopy, along with chest pain, heaviness in my chest, shortness of breath, which is creating alot of anxiety, which I'm sure isn't helping the spasms.
When I have the spasms, I don't feel acid coming back into my esophagus, but I do have shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, it feels like something caught in my throat.
Also on two separate occasions
I couldn't swallow or breath for what seemed like a few seconds or so, once I drank some warm water, that seem to relaxe my throat enough to swallow and catch my breath again.
My question has anyone else experienced the same non acid esophageal spasms with shortness of breath, if so is there a medication maybe you take that helps without a ton of crazy side effects that will calm the spasms down?
Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Anyone have a reversal of their Nissan fundoplication? Mine was wrapped too tight and I have issues with swallowing food. Stretching my esophagus and botox do not help.