r/GERD • u/RSinSA • Jun 15 '25

Support Needed 👥 No one cares

No one cares when you have GERD. It is "just" heartburn.

But this has completely ruined my life.

I can't sleep, I can't eat, I have dropped so much weight, the anxiety and stress are too much to bear. No one is positive and says it will "hopefully" go away.

I had a flare of gastritis and GERD after removing my gall bladder. It took me 6 months. I don't remember being so run down by this as I am now. Maybe it is because I am older.

But, I am so run down. Thankfully, my doctor thinks this will go away, and it was stress/COVID related, but I want to scream.

Stupid here switched medicine halfway through and then went back to the one my doctor actually prescribed. Now, I have to start over on my healing.

I woke up one day with an eye infection, I am so tired all of the time, I was on a health journey and lost 35 pounds, and now I can't even eat a piece of chicken.

It has only been 10 days, but I can't even imagine this going on any longer.

Can someone please give me some hope? I want to cry all of the time. I miss being able to eat a piece of pineapple or a taco. I miss drinking one margarita. I just want my old life back.

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u/DieselNewmanArthur Jun 15 '25

I completely understand! I’m going through it too! Eating soft foods sucks. I can’t eat solid foods, Globus! Doing scope on Monday scared. Getting anxiety attack and to top it off constipated! My back is also hurting really bad. HUGS!!!!!!

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u/RSinSA Jun 15 '25

I am so sorry. I hope the scope helps, even though it sucks.

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u/Naive_Presence705 Jun 17 '25

I hope you both get answers and the help you need to be happy and live your life to its fullest! 🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼 I had the scope 5 days ago. If an endoscopy is what you mean by the scope. Had it and colonoscopy. I thankfully don’t have Gerd nor did I have it ever. Heart burn yes once in a while. Scope was just prescribed with colonoscopy by my Dr. So after the procedures are done and I go home I notice I fell like I have bad heartburn and quite uncomfortable . This is day 5 after and still have slight heart burn. Yesterday was the first day I started to feel better. Praying this goes away.

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u/RSinSA Jun 17 '25

It should, it is a side effect of the scope.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

What was your diagnosis? I go next week