Scoop- Yes, you are right, I keep asking because it is so frustrating.
I am giving thought to going back up to NJH to see about it. The original findings at NJH after the testing for Acid Reflux came back....not found, none.
They did indicate I have a small hiatal hernia and one of the gastroenterologists there, via a video I watched months after my visit there, talked about it possibly causing a problem with needing to clear the throat often. My lead pulmonologist and gastroenterologist I saw there at NJH did not speak of what the hiatal hernia could cause. They just told me what they found, a small hiatal hernia.
'Push is coming to shove' for me and I need to do better about getting a possible definitive answer.
From what I heard and read, one being a video by Dr. Gwen Hewitt a retired Infectious Disease doctor at NJH who lived with Acid Reflux, the PPI's should be given for, taken for, a temporary period to help healing of lesions etc. and then stop taking it because the PPI's can, in the long run, make Acid Reflux worse. Another hard call about taking them or not.
Barbara