Can someone help?... pls... :"(

[Koveraine]

Hi,

I'm a 20 yr old (underweight) chinese female. I've been experiencing acid reflux for almost 3 months now. It sort of happened overnight with incredible stomach churning. At first I thought it was stomach flu until I realised that my throat was feeling weird and I was getting air involuntarily popping at my throat. (I hardly ever burp before this.) The docter prescribed me with Omeprazole for 2 weeks. But it didn't go away for improve for that matter so I went back and was prescribed with Famotidine which proved to reduce the frequency of my reflux. When I was on Omeprazole, I was experiencing reflux a few times a day. But Famotidine and a very, small lunch helped reduce that to mild reflux once after dinner daily. I continued taking Famotidine for 2mths until my scheduled Gastroscopy which was performed 2 days ago.

I've just started on Pariet (Rabeprazol Sodium 20mg), once daily. (Very, very expensive medicine. 6x more expensive than taking 3x Omeprazole daily. :( Sigh  )

After taking Rabeprazole, yesterday's night, I experienced my first ever night reflux. It was horrible and I couldn't bear the thought of daily night acid reflux. I've always been able to sleep peacefully before that. (Peacefully meaning no night reflux but the usual bloatedness and churning and "air-popping" sensations in the stomach and intestines.) I couldn't get the reflux to stop despite settling myself down into a half-sitting, half-lying down position. Luckily a work helped knocked me out eventually.

That said, today is day 2 of Rabeprazole and I've been experiencing reflux for the past 4 hours (since after my dinner). It got so bad 2 hours ago that I felt like I was choking for about 5 mins+ and the back of my throat kind of hurt. The first 2 hrs into it was relatively stringer acidic taste. Right now it is more of a mild reflux i'm tasting.

Sorry for being such a drag but I would like to hear anyone's opinion or advice. I am very, very miserable. And is it normal for reflux to be so persistent and recurrent? My gastro doc put me on Rabeprazole for 1 month. During this window period of 1 mth is it going to be normal and safe to experience such hardcore symptoms? Says here on my paper "Principle Diagnosis: Erosive Esophagitis" apparently he talked to me a little when I was sedated so I pretty much can't even remember holding any conversation with him. He then left the hospital so I feel quite lost here right now (I've told him my entire long story above too).

I really hope somebody can help me... sometimes I ignore this problem but at times when the reflux is so bad I really feel so damn depressed that I'm here draining my mom's finances and not getting any better. I know this sounds so, so stupid but when I got the night reflux last night, I really felt like I was at my wit's end and just really feel like dying. Its like... you're just so sick of feeling sick.

[Koveraine]

Hey. Thanks for your tips. Couldn't find Chlorella around here so far, only Spirunella. I hope Rabeprazole eventually does the trick though :(  Think I'll discuss Chlorella with my doc when I see him a mth later. See what he has to say.. Once again, thks. Cheers!

[mdscycle]

  Hey Little ... if its not H. PYLORI... (WAIT TO your endo result)... thhan if its only reflux   middle to cold water its the SOLUTION, THAT PLENTY OF WATER DAYLI and specially when triggers reflux ... and at the end I suggest loook for infos about CHLOROPHYLL/ CHLORELLA... its my words....  all the best  ..let me know  about it.