Acid reflux?

roadrunnerh said

I've been dealing with acid reflux for 20 years. Now I am hooked on prilosec.
Sometimes I wake from a dead sleep with what I refer to as choking-hot-puke-in my throat. For the first couple seconds I feel like I'm dying. Just two days ago, I had an Endoscopy for the first time. It's an imaging tube they stick down your throat and check out your esophogus (sp) and stomach. Nothing showed up!
Sooo. either I stop smoking and significantly change my diet, or just keep taking Prilosec. It blows.

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I was also that bad. I would get rings in the food pipe that would prevent big chunks of food going all the way down. had to have those rings broken by endoscopy twice.

This baking soda thing is working for me. My bottle of Nexium pills sits in the drawer and has not been opened in a year. And like I said, I have a box of alkaseltzer gold there for emergencies like late night hot wing ingestion.

One more thing, about this time I also had a chronic cough and very raspy voice. It was from coughing all the time, sometimes all night. One day I noticed my tongue was all white and it had been like that for what seems like forever. That is called Candida, it is a fungus. I was killing that candida by spraying the 3% hydrogen peroxide on my tongue and scraping the resulting white foam off with a toothbrush. between that peroxide and the subsequent baking soda water my tongue is pink again. The reflux and the candida may be related, I dunno.