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Digestive Health | Last Active: Mar 23 3:18pm | Replies (535)Comment receiving replies
I have horrible and painful GERD daily. Started in December after I had a cholecystectomy. On PPI now but still painful, now affecting voice with sore throat. Anyone experienced this? I do not want to take the PPI’s.
I am not overweight, do not drink and do not eat fried food, head of bed elevated too, still pain and it is unrelenting.
Anyone tried herbs? Acupuncture?
Ideas?
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Another thing, if it's bile reflux, which is common after cholecystectomy, then the treatment is different than for acid reflux. See a gastroenterologist and see: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bile-reflux/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20370121
PPI may not be the right treatment, but if you do need it don't be wary of taking it
HI,
Sorry about your pain.
Call the surgeon's office and (try to) insist on a follow-up appointment. Maybe put it in writing on his patient portal messages. Definitely see a doctor. I suggest starting with your primary care doctor. Sounds like you are doing everything that you should, and it clearly started post-op, so it seems like a surgical foul-up, which they will deny probably. Stick to your guns (your evidence).
My grandmom's remedy: very slowly drink a tall glass of warm water.
Best of luck to you!
This may or may not help you in any way, but about 6yrs ago +/- there was an article released that said when PPI's first came out, they were not intended to be used on a long term basis, but because of how helpful they were to GERD sufferers, and apparently few side effects, doctors kept their patients on them indefinitely. I like many others was in that group. But then it was written that there actually were some definitely unwanted side effects. PPI's send a signal from your brain to your gut to "cut the acid", And I guess after years of this, its hard to go back to normal. I decided on my own to stop my PPI. ( I am a retired RN) I was so ill that I could not even eat, and lost 20#. My GI doc convinced me to get back on it , which I did. You have to weigh the pros and cons. Thing were going well, and then out of nowhere-LPR
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I tried acupuncture and it did nothing for me. I think that if you have terrible GERD then it's not enough to try herbs or cider vinegar and the like. Apparently, bile reflux is common after cholecystectomy. See details and treatment possibilities here: https://www.drmalladi.com/acid-reflux-after-gallbladder-removal/
Maybe you also have a hiatal hernia that is keeping the LES open. (I don't know if you've written more details ab out your situation previously, so apologize that I didn't see it.)
You should go to a gastroenterologist and see what they suggest. Maybe they'll do an endoscopy to see the situation. (With the sedation they give, it's a relatively easy procedure.)