Hello everyone, I apologize in advance for this emotional post, well today is my 40th birthday. Since my symptoms started about 4 months ago they only seem to be getting worse. My symptoms came on suddenly after a cold I had and I thought it was just my asthma, I went to the Er they gave me some lung steroids and it seemed to help then after it wore off it came back, I went to another ER they admitted me and did more tests was in the hospital 2 days they did a nuclear stress test on my heart, CT scan with contrast on my chest and throat all came back normal, then I had an appointment with the GI doctor he did endoscopy and a colonoscopy, Colon was normal but the then endoscopy was not, he said I have grade C Esophagitis, he put me on 40mg of Omeprazole twice a day. I have been taking them for almost two months now still no improvement. My last appointment to the GI he said my breathing issues is because of Silent reflux, since the medicine is not helping I feel he may have mis diagnosed me. It seems like I go to one doctor and he just sends me to another doctor with feeling the same with no answers or relief of symptoms. I feel like am suffering my quality of life these past 4 months have gone down hill. I don't want to give up, but its hard to keep going forward with no answers or relief of these symptoms, only thing that helps me is using my cpap machine when I sleep at night time. The meds the Gi doctor put me on seems to make me not be able to sleep well so I feel I am only getting 4 to 5 hours of sleep a day and I feel tired and fatigued during the day. At work I struggle to breath, I find myself running out of air even when talking and walking I get anxiety and fear of running out of breath I have stopped all my daily exercises and walking. I feel like I am constantly congested and clearing my throat to clear my airways, I feel as if my nostrils and my breathing pipe get inflamed and very hard to breath forcing me to always try to take a deep breath to feel better for that moment. When I wake up I feel like I am not as bad but by mid day the symptoms are the worse. I am starting to lose hope. I try to always keep a positive outlook on life and I know this is just a temporary life Thank you for this support page. My next appointment is with the lung doctor next week.