Someone has to find a cure for this horible disorder - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

kevinla · 01-02-2009, 08:26 PM

LPR, acid reflux, everything. So many people suffer from it, but it seems to take a back seat to cancer, and other disorder. It doesn't get enough attention.

TEdds83 · 01-02-2009, 11:34 PM

I am right there with ya!!! Someone needs to help us all out! There just has to be more solutions and ways to help us all.

CharBerry · 01-03-2009, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by TEdwards83

I am right there with ya!!! Someone needs to help us all out! There just has to be more solutions and ways to help us all.

I totally agree. I've been at the point that LPR should be covered under disability. Mine has been that bad before and has caused numerous other problems. What is so strange to me is that it seems to be a relatively "new" disease. More so than "Acid Reflux" or "GERD", which seems everyone has now. I still think all of our digestive problems stem from our ever changing daily lives and diet along with stress. But, I haven't figured out how the normal reflux turns into LPR that seems to happen to so many. That one is much harder for me to keep under control.....Can't say it's ever always under control either. Throw in the IBS, which I think goes along with the Asthma/Allergy, SOB symptoms all rolled into one main disease. It's more frustrating for me since I show no hernia and my test don't reflect "that much acid." I guess I should be thankful that I don't experience the stomach pains and sickness that I once did for years or losing my voice for months at a time. It may not be good but it's there! I just wonder if a cure for all of this will ever be found? One pill to do away with all our symptoms instead of treating each symptom as a seperate illness therefore taking 4 or 5 meds a day. And I might add...none of them helping 100%.

CharBerry

toby dog · 01-06-2009, 08:20 AM

Charberry,
this is my first time on the board.i'm so happy i found it.i thought i was the only one with all these terrible systems.none of the drs. Said i have lpr they did all the tests and said i have acid reflux.my throat burns all the time i went to ent dr. And he said my voice box was red and swollen from acid which only comfirms my conclusion i have lpr.i have a hard time getting a full breth sometimes usually at night.i have spasms which make me choke and can't breathe until they subside.it's embarrassing because i never know when this will happen.i have had this in arestaurant and people thought i was choking on foo whe resally i was having a spasm.i don't like going out any longer in fear of this.i hope like all of you they come up with a cure soon so we can all live normal livess
toby dog

neddyflanders · 01-06-2009, 08:24 AM

I had no doubt 3 years ago when I started getting LPR that I would be able to get rid of it. 3 years later I still have it, taking prescription PPI (something I swore I would never do) to reduce symptoms. I have tried everything in 3 years and have been unable to eliminate it, and I can figure out anything. Though I did have a friend of mine who had it and with him it just went away like magic after 8 months. When once I was 100% I'd get rid of it, now I'm not sure I'll ever get rid of it.