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Posted 3/27/2018 11:20 AM (GMT -5)
HI

New here im usually on the UC board. Anyway about a week and half ago i started having these symptoms in the morning while drinking my coffee. Its feels like a spasm in my throat and chest it comes and goes and its kind of hard to describe but its annoying..I do feel a lump in my throat it feels like as well from time to time. Also i had a little dry cough i think as well as belching all the time... I stopped drinking alcohol and coffee (just decaffeinated tea)and it seemed to subside to where i wasnt having any symptoms the last couple of days so i thought it was definitely the caffeine. I was also eating chocolate covered espresso beans on occasion , i know that didn't help. So i cut out all that and it seemed to work up until yesterday i started having these symptoms but not a annoying as before...Im also taking Zantac 150 every morning as well as eat Tums if needed. Also in the afternoon it would completely go away some days? and sleeping at night i have no symptoms at all. any ideas what that might be reflux? at first i thought was my heart or something it was so weird. thanks

Post Edited (jazzgtrl4) : 3/27/2018 11:24:17 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/27/2018 1:25 PM (GMT -5)
It's impossible to tell whether you are experiencing GERD-type or reflux symptoms. I would continue with a GERD-friendly diet for the next month - no spicy foods, citrus, chocolate, caffeine, etc. and see if that helps with the symptoms. I would still make an appointment with your doctor.

Sharon
Posted 3/27/2018 1:42 PM (GMT -5)
Hi Sharon

Thanks fro the reply..ya i have a dr appt with my GI next week. Going to stay on that diet for awhile and see what happens. it was so hard coming down from caffeine wow.
Posted 3/29/2018 9:57 AM (GMT -5)
As you probably know, you can take a couple isolated symptoms and apply them to a whole variety of different things, so it is very difficult to make any sort of guess based on a couple symptoms at a specific point in time.

I will say though that a chronic feeling of a lump in the throat that you can't swallow and/or difficulty swallowing, along with a chronic cough and raspy voice are all on the symptom checklist of LPR/silent reflux.

larengyospasms can be a sign of LPR as well, but more often happen when the person is laying down and the acid is actively flowing back up into the throat. For me those spasms felt more like how you might expect someone to describe an asthma or allergy attack, where the throat closes up for a period of time making it difficult to breathe, rather than a sharp or sudden pain.
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