Clematis
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I was DXed with "silent" reflux in mid-September after I went to an ENT complaining of nose mucous in the back of my throat that I could not swallow. (I had no heartburn.) I was given a script for 40mg Omeprazole which I was told I'd have to take "forever". I bought a bed wedge to elevate my head during sleep. The sense of mucous in back of throat went away.
A month later, I gagged on a giant calcium pill at 8 am and up came the undigested hamburger I had eaten for dinner 14 hours before, no acid or bile, just the burger. (How was it still in my stomach??) After that, a few times I was awakened at night with the distinct feeling of food coming up in my lower esophagus. I'd cough, choke and swallow it down. (I had never experienced this before in my life.)
DS surgery was Nov 12 and, as I have posted elsewhere, I cannot keep down any solids (and we're talking rice-sized solids). If whatever I eat is not liquid or fine enough to slip by the pylorus without it "noticing", I feel pain that grows (and never goes away, even many hours later) until I vomit up first a jellyfish of mucous and then later the offending food.
But I also continue to have an episode of middle of the night reflux which is now occurring nearly every night — and I no longer eat after 8 pm. Most times I awake coughing and gagging. On occasion I am semi-awake when it begins, and it seems to be an eruption, not gravity-seeping. (My head is elevated on the bed wedge.) The sensation is that nothing has been digested -- it does not feel liquid-y. It’s a miracle I haven’t developed aspiration pneumonia.
So today I'm wondering: has the PPI given me some measure of gastroparesis? Food, other than liquids, is not emptying? Perhaps the surgery damaged the vagus nerve and has taken the sluggish emptying to a more dire level? Is that a part of why I can't keep down solids? (The nighttime reflux and sense of non-digestion was present pre and post op with the PPI; the vomiting is only post op.)
Otherwise, I feel OK. I’m resisting going to a gastroenterologist until I’m sure I have a serious problem. No doubt my insurance will blame it on the unapproved DS surgery and I will be stuck paying thousands of dollars for the tests so if I go, they'd better turn up something!
Has anyone heard of PPIs causing this? Googling shows some anecdotal evidence but not actual data.
A month later, I gagged on a giant calcium pill at 8 am and up came the undigested hamburger I had eaten for dinner 14 hours before, no acid or bile, just the burger. (How was it still in my stomach??) After that, a few times I was awakened at night with the distinct feeling of food coming up in my lower esophagus. I'd cough, choke and swallow it down. (I had never experienced this before in my life.)
DS surgery was Nov 12 and, as I have posted elsewhere, I cannot keep down any solids (and we're talking rice-sized solids). If whatever I eat is not liquid or fine enough to slip by the pylorus without it "noticing", I feel pain that grows (and never goes away, even many hours later) until I vomit up first a jellyfish of mucous and then later the offending food.
But I also continue to have an episode of middle of the night reflux which is now occurring nearly every night — and I no longer eat after 8 pm. Most times I awake coughing and gagging. On occasion I am semi-awake when it begins, and it seems to be an eruption, not gravity-seeping. (My head is elevated on the bed wedge.) The sensation is that nothing has been digested -- it does not feel liquid-y. It’s a miracle I haven’t developed aspiration pneumonia.
So today I'm wondering: has the PPI given me some measure of gastroparesis? Food, other than liquids, is not emptying? Perhaps the surgery damaged the vagus nerve and has taken the sluggish emptying to a more dire level? Is that a part of why I can't keep down solids? (The nighttime reflux and sense of non-digestion was present pre and post op with the PPI; the vomiting is only post op.)
Otherwise, I feel OK. I’m resisting going to a gastroenterologist until I’m sure I have a serious problem. No doubt my insurance will blame it on the unapproved DS surgery and I will be stuck paying thousands of dollars for the tests so if I go, they'd better turn up something!
Has anyone heard of PPIs causing this? Googling shows some anecdotal evidence but not actual data.
Im on omperozole and zantac and eat tums like they are going out of style. Im alive and happy, just need to get Ernie evicted 
