GERD sufferers or medical experts? I need help!?I am 30 years old and I have chronic acid regurgitation. I don't really have heartburn. My first symptom was neck pain, followed by a burning throat (I didn't realize at the time that the two were related, but the neck pain seems to correlate with the other symptoms). I was prescribed rabeprazole which made everything better really quickly. Then I stopped taking the medication only to have my symptoms return immediately along with a new symptom: a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE taste in my mouth. When I resumed taking the medication however, all my symptoms went away again.
Then a few months later, the horrible taste returned and this time I didn't think it was the acid regurgitation, because it wasn't accompanied by a sore throat and the doctor sent me to the dentist (my teeth and mouth were perfect), and then for a sinus x-ray (all fine)...and THEN he prescribed Nexium. The nexium made me feel better again.
Now it's been about 8 weeks and the horrible taste has returned. The Nexium is twice the dosage as the rabeprazole was, and as far as I know it's pretty much the same thing. My doctor has now prescribed prevacid for me to take, but I'm pretty discouraged at this point. It's beginning to look as though everything is just going to stop working. Maybe this means there's something else going on? I don't know what to do...my doctor seems unconcerned. Anybody else have this problem or know anything about it?
-doctordog
if nexium hasnt worked you should have a gastroscope really
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