I have had my tonsils and adenoids removed last summer at 37 due to chronic throat infections. Even after the surgery, I get horrible throat pain, pinching and burning, constant cough, a lump on my throat feeling that won't go away and horrible ear pain (deep and feels like a burning pain) and I can hardly touch them. My doctor is baffle since my ears look perfectly normal upon exam. It is worse at night and I wake up with coughing spells, pop a cough drop and try to fall back to sleep. Dangerous I know. I wake up just as tired as I go to sleep and it continues day after day, night after night. My son's speech teacher says it sounds like LPR not GERD. Any thoughts please?!