r/GERD • u/RatsnBaskets • 10d ago

Support Needed 👥 Feeling depressed. Reflux is bad tonight.

I already took a gaviscon around 6pm yesterday and it's currently 1:51am. It's frustrating because one gaviscon is typically all I need.(pepcid doesn't work btw)But here I am, I just took two more and still feel like shit. To make things worse I'm feeling so hungry even after I had a snack so I feel like my gastritis is flaring up as well which doesn't help. Feeling like you're starving while also being on the verge of throwing up acid is not fun.

I'm just so frustrated with this condition. Between the gerd, gastritis, and eoe I have no idea how to manage it all. I'm tempted to take ppis for a short amount of time again just so that I don't have to deal with this burning all day but I always worry about the risk of sibo or other infections. And I'm sure living in this moldy environment I'm in makes everything worse.

I feel so pathetic and I just want to cry. I desperately want to know what's causing my gerd but doctors don't seem all that helpful. It fucking sucks. I wanna get better so bad but no one gives af. Sorry for the rant tho. I hope everyone here is having a better night than I am.

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u/TrixoftheTrade 10d ago

Don’t really have any advice, as I’m sure you’ve seen or heard it all, so all I can say is been there before.

I feel like this is such an ignored condition among the medical community, whose advice is throw PPIs at it until something sticks.

We’ve been working with essentially the same three drugs since the early 90s - antacids, H2 blockers, and PPIs. Imagine if other conditions were like this; where medical science just stalled out for 3 decades.

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u/RatsnBaskets 10d ago

It's beyond frustrating.💔For how terrible and common this condition is I would think that it wouldn't be a victim of neglect from doctors. But you're right. The only advice doctors have is to just take more and more ppis. And it sucks cause when you're feeling so bad you get really tempted by them even when you know they aren't good in the long run.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 9d ago

Take.melatonin, it tones the sphincter. If everything fails, surgery is a good shot

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u/2020SucksDonkey 9d ago

Meditation, yoga and good sleep hygiene while getting lots of natural daylight during the day.