Parousia
Well-Known Member
Has anyone found their gastric reflux getting worse sometime after their DS?
I was on 40 mg of Nexium a day prior to my surgery, which controlled my reflux perfectly. Not long after the DS, my GP dropped my dose down to 20 mg a day. My reflux seemed ok on that dose as long as I was on time with each dose. However, I did wake up with the taste of bile in my mouth and a burning throat a couple of times. After a couple of separate episodes of severe chest pain (which I think was caused by oesophageal spasms) my doctor put my dose back up to 40 mg. But, despite that, I've started getting heart burn. I have some of the 20mg Nexium leftover from the dose change, and I've been taking 40mg at night and 20mg in the morning, and I've got to the point that that still doesn't control my reflux completely.
I posted recently about a baking soda (I thought) taste in my mouth. It was kinda burny, but not like bile and didn't feel at all like reflux. But after that I started getting breakthrough reflux, so it probably was related.
I'm almost a year post-DS now, so it seems really strange for my reflux to be getting so much worse at this stage. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Any ideas as to what might cause it so far out?
I was on 40 mg of Nexium a day prior to my surgery, which controlled my reflux perfectly. Not long after the DS, my GP dropped my dose down to 20 mg a day. My reflux seemed ok on that dose as long as I was on time with each dose. However, I did wake up with the taste of bile in my mouth and a burning throat a couple of times. After a couple of separate episodes of severe chest pain (which I think was caused by oesophageal spasms) my doctor put my dose back up to 40 mg. But, despite that, I've started getting heart burn. I have some of the 20mg Nexium leftover from the dose change, and I've been taking 40mg at night and 20mg in the morning, and I've got to the point that that still doesn't control my reflux completely.
I posted recently about a baking soda (I thought) taste in my mouth. It was kinda burny, but not like bile and didn't feel at all like reflux. But after that I started getting breakthrough reflux, so it probably was related.
I'm almost a year post-DS now, so it seems really strange for my reflux to be getting so much worse at this stage. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Any ideas as to what might cause it so far out?