I ate chocolate... need input please - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

cherilyn30 · 03-27-2006, 10:37 AM

I'm an idiot. I found a recipe for fat-free chocolate cake and icing and made it. I've been doing well on meds, so I ate a very small piece yesterday evening. Never again! Within about 2 hours, chocolate came back up into my throat and stayed there. It wasn't acid, it was chocolate - I could sort of taste it. Felt like icing coating my throat, nothing would budge it. Stayed that way for hours til I fell asleep so of course I woke up this morning with a bad sore throat.

This is what freaked me out... Shortly after waking up, I coughed and a big glob of sticky brown mucus came up (sorry, gross). That never happened before. Is it possible that overnight, acid carried chocolate up to my sinuses? Does the throat itself produce mucus? I'm assuming the brown color was from the chocolate reflux somehow. Can anyone tell me how reflux could end up being coughed up this way?

I take Aciphex 20mg per day. I was diagnosed with GERD, but am beginning to also suspect LPR. I've had upper GI which diagnosed GERD, upper endoscopy which only showed gastritis, and I have had a zillion chest X-rays recently, and lungs are clear.

Thanks so much for any input! And again, sorry for the grossness.

taape · 03-27-2006, 07:12 PM

About mucos, all I know is that I've had seasonal allergies for years way before the very recent stomach problems, and the mucos drips down my throat and I believe it is coming from my sinuses. It can drip all the way down your throat but I don't know if the throat produces it separately. Sorry I don't know the answers to your questions but I'm sorry to hear about your experience.

I thought about making some fat free brownies, no icing though but maybe I'll change my mind. I wonder how just a little bit of cocoa maybe a table spoon could cause problems as there can't be that much caffeine in it.