Can moderate gastritis cause LPR?

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I am wondering if moderate gastritis can cause reflux that would cause LPR?

My ENT's have both said I have LPR, although it's just a guess of theirs. Since my vocal corRAB are never imflammed, they always say "it sounRAB like LPR, but doesn't look like LPR".

Anyways I got tired of the guessing and went to a GI doc, today I had an endoscopy. My esophagus and duodenum both were normal, but my stomach had moderate amount of gastritis. He took a few biopsies and I am waiting the results from those.

I have been on aciphex for almost 3 months.

The next step is a 24hour probe to completely rule out or in reflux, as if I don't have reflux I want to get off all these PPI's I am taking.
 
what are the symptoms that bother you (as in, what are the symptoms you want to go away)
Did they appear gradually or sudden onset?
age and gender, and nature of their first appearance would help too.
 
Well my symptoms vary from time to time. Right now I have sore throat most mornings along with alot of congestion in the back of my throat. The GI doc doesn't think I have LPR. Other times when I have gone to ENT docs, I have some of the post nasal drip but my ears will be plugged and off and on painful.

They basically listen to my symptoms and say "you have LPR" take this PPI at a high dose for 3 months.

It's hard to tell if the PPI's work or if your just getting better because the allergy forecast changes or the weather changes from humid to dry etc.

I finally got tired over the last 3 or so years dealing with the medicine and no real clear diagnosis I went to this GI doc to see if I have reflux.

He wants to just do a single pH probe, but I am going to tell him I would much rather have a double probe done.
 
to be honest, i think they just call it "LPR" when they don't know what it is. I have the same thing too to look forward to.

The best thing is to stop taking the pills, imo, and just eat and do whatever you want. It will only make you more unhappy if you are changiing your lifestyle, eating boring food, and still getting no change.

They just don't know period. I'm going to try to get a prescription for lyrica, and I'll let you know if it works.

I've read a few journals and stuff that basically said that people who had symptoms like lpr tried drugs like lyrica, and the results were a lot better than ppis. It made me think that if this suddenly started, and you don't have heartburn, it probably related to nerve over sensitivy that's causing your larynx to do weird things. I don't know, it's just an idea, but it's not like the doctors are solving this problem for ANYONE, so why not entertain the idea that it's not reflux. The heartburn medicine people probably love all the money coming to them for double doses of ppis from "LPR" sufferers though.

Ah well. Just try to ignore it I guess. Chew gum. Take a sugar pill. Sugar pills usually cure it at a slightly better rate than ppis, and you won't have any side effects.
 
If you are looking for LPR only, the single probe by ResTech that came on the market in 2008 is great. It is positioned behind the uvula and measures acid in the gaseous form. It is the only probe on the market that does that.

If you are looking to measure the liquid acid and want to know if you have GERD in addition to LPR, the dual probe is good. From what I understand the upper probe there only measures the liquid acid that comes up though so it isn't as sensitive. The lower probe can tell you the severity of your GERD though.

I've had LPR with tons of lung irritation. My vocal cord irritation comes and goes or I'm not always aware of it. My ENT has me focusing on calming my throat since there isn't anything else they can do for the reflux because I'm already "doing everything right."

I'm being treated for my allergies by my ENT so he is addressing both issues. I'm also working with a Gastroenterologist and Pulmonologist (acid triggers my asthma as well). Every test I have at one doc, I get copies of for the others. It is frustrating coordinating things like that, but I feel it is necessary to get the symptoms under control.
 
honestly, i bet half of us have a virus/parasite/nerve damage. This stupid disease is not being diagnosed correctly at all, and that makes it 5x worse than it actually is. We get fed a bunch of lies, instead of the doctors experimenting. Honestly, if I could, or can, I will volunteer for extreme experiments to get to the bottom of this. It's not life, to live like this. The ppis are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem.
 
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