Quote Originally Posted by yeahbuddy289 View Post
Some of you may have seen my thread I made in the Q&A section where I was pretty ill a couple months ago, and that I have had throat pain for months that wouldn’t go away. I wasn’t sure if it was an actual illness or from my acid reflux. Well the more things go on, the more I think it’s my acid reflux.

After having throat pain for a couple months I saw a throat specialist who put a camera up my nose and down my throat. He discovered I have an ulcer right above my vocal cords. He said this was caused by my acid reflux.

I have been taking 20mg of otc omeprazole for years now that seemed to control it. I mentioned this to my primary care physician and he said it would be a good idea to see a GI specialist. He then put me on 40mg of omeprazole, which seemed to work ok until I woke up coughing uncontrollably one night and then went on to lose my voice and have the worst sore throat I’ve ever had for about two weeks that got better but left me with an ulcer.

This throat specialist told me to stop the omeprazole and he put me on 40mg of pantoprazole in the morning and 40mg of famotidine at night. I feel worse on this medicine, and just last night I woke up coughing and have a terrible sore throat. I feel like this is causing me to always feel like I’m getting a cold, it’s affecting my sinuses as well. I am a mess and this whole thing is depressing. I have changed my eating habits and what I eat but I feel as though it’s getting worse. I am very bummed out by this, I am tired of feeling sick, I’m tired of having an extremely sore throat, it hurts to talk, and I’m afraid to eat or drink anything. I don’t know why it has gone from being able to control it with 20mg of omeprazole to nothing is helping.

I did see the GI specialist by the way (this was in early December before all of this happened) he just told me to continue with what my primary care doctor prescribed me and I am scheduled for an endoscopy this summer.

Sorry for the long rant but I’m hurting pretty bad and worried I’ll never get this under control. I’m not on orals right now but I can’t help but think steroids are playing a roll in this. I’m worried I will have to quit it all together and spend the rest of my life drinking nothing but water and eating boiled chicken until I die. And yes, for the record I have made changes to my diet and eating habits, and still things are worse than they were.
My brother I’ve been through this and mine was caused by a hiatal hernia and I had the surgery, regardless of the source keep going to specialist until you get it it fixed as the next level is developing Barrett’s disease and esophageal cancer, my father in law let his go too long like most of us and it went really bad, I don’t want to spread fear so I’m not going to get into the details but keep going to a doctor until you can get it fixed, I pray that you can get it straightened out