Does surgery work for Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR)?
Since December 13, 2016. My symptoms started with a soar throat, soar inflamed taste buds on the tip of my tongue and inflamed salivary glands on my soft palate. My tongue, throat and soft palate had a painful burning sensation that was on and off. My General practitioner referred me to an Ear Nose throat specialist who referred me to an oral surgeon who referred me to an oral pathologist for burning mouth syndrome. After wasting 3 months of running around with these Dr's and being tested for oral thrush, hsv tests, vitamin deficiency tests, auto immune deficiency tests, cultural bacteria tests all which came back normal. I decided to go for a second opinion with another E.N.T. specialist who performed a camera scope and diagnosed me with acid in my throat. I was put on Dexilant and noticed the pain dissipate almost immediately only problem was I couldn't tolerate the medication. I was then put on Tecta and referred to a G. I. My general Practitioner did some blood work for h pylori and I tested positive. I started to develop tinitus in my left ear. I had a gastroscopy where they found a 2 cm Hiatel Hernial and my lower sphincter was weak. Thats when I was told I have a mild case of gerd, but I don't suffer from any heart burn. I was put on triple dose of antibiotics for h pylori and continued with the Tecta, domperadone and sucrolafate. I'm getting a little relief from the PPI and meds but I still suffer from bitter reflux taste and burning pain in my throat, soft Palate, the tip of my tongue and dry mouth that comes and goes. I'm in the process of having a 24 hr ph level test done. The G. I. I was seeing says my esophagus biopsy tested clean and he doesn't believe what is happening in my oral cavity is related to my gut. He stated in order for acid to travel to the throat it has to travel through the esophagus and the esophagus tested clean. Thus he can't help me anymore. I'm so confused my ENT says I have acid in my throat and the G.I. doesn't agree.
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Hi guys ,did you think GI upper endoscopy can show GERD or acid reflux . please let me know .I have in the morning cough up white mucus but per day clearly mucus I don't know what that
Hello,
Sorry for all you have been through. We are all different in contributing causes and symptoms. My understanding supported by my own experience is the LPR in itself does not cause heartburn which is more of a general GERD sort of symptom. My upper Endoscopy showed a hiatal hernia and a weak sphincter which I believe contributes to pressure from the hernia and the open sphincter promoting acid back up into my esophagus. I don't know if the Upper Endoscopy shows or another diagnostic shows damage to esophagus or GERD. If you check the MAYO unit to GERD it will say how it is diagnosed. My LPR symptoms were never as intense as yours but included chronic rhinitis but clear, a metallic or strange taste in my mouth.
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1 Reaction@cmdw2600 Hi Cindy. Great information, thanks. I did not have the test but am comfortable with my LPR diagnosis and have made many similar lifestyle changes to good effect, including still allowing my self coffee and an occasional glass of wine (which I used to enjoy daily). If my symptoms worsened I would probably have to curtail those. I'm not sure if it is helping but when I have coffee in the morning I also have a cup of warmed oak milk handy which in my imaginings helps with coffee acid. Also I learned that robusta beans are somewhat less acidic and have less caffeine than arabica beans and there are some decent robusta coffees (Vietnamese organic for example). I have found Traditional Medicinal Herbal teas have formulations similar to what you noted.
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3 ReactionsYou can buy half caffeine low acid coffee off of Amazon. Use unsweetened almond milk as a creamer to lower the remaining acidity.
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