r/LPR

I’ve noticed over the past few years that after eating breakfast sometimes, I will have a lot of mucus at the base of my throat. It causes me to have to clear my throat and gag and even spit sometimes so I can be comfortable again.

And last night I had something happen for the second time. I woke up in the middle of the night and it felt like I was drowning (sort of) in my own mucus at the base of my throat. I did eat a very late dinner about an hour and a half before I fell asleep.

It felt like I couldn’t breathe properly. I had to cough and gag and spit up until I could finally get back into bed and fall back asleep. It was terrible. The first time it happened was months ago and it wasn’t as bad, but it still sucked.

Now, the clearing of the throat thing during the day usually in the morning, occurs every now and then. It’s not every single day and I’ve noticed it more when I eat a bigger breakfast. But I never have heartburn or anything like that and so I think I have one of the lesser known variations of acid reflux. Laryngopharyngeal reflux.

Has anyone else faced the same issue? What did you do to fix it? Should I start taking an antacid? I definitely don’t wanna wake up again and feel like that. It really made my sleep horrible having that happen.

Any tried coconut cult?? I just started taking it and wow my stomach is like a well oiled machine!

Maybe it could help some of you!

I had an endoscopy in Oct 2024, 2 wks after my LPR symptoms started. It was all clear. My symptoms have changed over the years but I still have a tight throat feeling and mucus, and occasionally sore throat with horse voice.

I’m finally seeing an ENT tomorrow and I feel extremely anxious. Not totally sure why?

I guess I’m looking for reassurance.

Last night I woke up with what felt like liquid in my throat and mouth. Had a horrible taste. I didn't take Reflux Raft before bed. I'm wondering what works better for people before bed, Gaviscon Advance or Reflux Raft? I'm having super bad constipation at this point too and don't really know what to do and wondering if Reflux Raft is contributing. Been taking after meals.

I’ve been having night coughs due to acid reflux the past 5 days.
I’ve been on Omeperazole 20mg morning and night and take it an hour before food and sleep 2 hours after.
I’m absolutely fine during the day with mild throat clearing or a slight cough occasionally. At night i start coughing the moment I start to drift off.
I’ve also been taking elm bark capsules before bed with Gaviscon. I sleep with an elevated wedge.

I’ve gone to my GP and they have ruled out infection or anything and basically said I’m fine but upped my dosage to 40mg Pantoprazole morning and night.
At this point I’ve not slept in 5 days and I’m exhausted.

I’ve got a trip coming up Friday with some multi day hikes planned next Monday to Wednesday.
If i get 6-8 hours of sleep j would be fine but that’s been impossible with me waking up coughing every two hours or less.

I had a similar attack in January during peak winter, after a flu. I ended up losing my voice and taking a month to recover.
It’s much milder this time and it’s mainly my sleep that’s bothering me.

Is there anything else i can do? Practically what are the odds me making the trip + hike?

I’m very active, workout 4-5 times a week ( strength and cardio) . Eat 60-80 gms of protein, eat my fibre and carbs.
I’ve been under immense stress at work and have skipped some meals and not been too careful with my stomach in the last few weeks - which is why I’m here.

Maybe it’s the lack of sleep but I’m extremely anxious and really need this trip - a break I’ve planned since January.

Any leads would be great

Thanks!

Anyone else get tachycardia, especially after meals? When I take PPIs, it goes away. But when off of them, it comes back. I think the acid is irritating a nerve. A gastro doctor told me that can't happen, but somehow taking PPIs makes it go away, so it seems reflux related. Unfortunately, my primary doctor won't prescribe pantoprazole, the one that works for me, since he says it's dangerous long term.

Hoping this helps someone! My LPR started a couple months after giving birth to my son. I have no idea why but I always just attributed it to hormonal fluctuations. I have also breastfed him for 18 months and I read some things about there being a possible connection between breastfeeding and LPR (or other reflux). My doctors had speculated it had spending to do with estrogen suppression from prolactin, plus relaxin levels slightly elevated from baseline while breastfeeding.

The throat clearing started to really wear on me and was driving me insane so i went to an ENT. She confirmed LPR and had me try PPI and a H2 blocker and an alginate and tums and so on. I tried nasal sprays. I tried alkaline water and sleeping on a wedge and quitting coffee (didn’t last long), all sorts of things. Even did a thyroid ultrasound. Nothing helped. The thing that helped the most was a ricola cough drop lol, which didn’t do much.

I’d been having some other symptoms that, I thought up until recently, were unrelated: intense facial flushing, post nasal drip cough at night, sensitive skin, random stuffy nose, maybe a few other things I’m forgetting.

Then, I was sick with a nasty cold a few weeks ago and took NyQuil for a couple night. I didn’t realize until a few days later that I didn’t have my regular morning coughing fit those days. Then, still bc i was sick, I took some Claritin and again, no lump, irritation for throat clearing and coughing!

I happened to have an annual check up scheduled so I asked my doctor about it and she said that it could be some sort of histamine intolerance. So I looked it up and learned that histamine intolerance can 100% cause LPR and other forms of reflux. So I’ve been taking Claritin every day since, for maybe two weeks now, and my symptoms have reduced by like 90%. Barely any throat clearing at all and if I do, it’s only a tiny bit and very short lived.

God I hope it keeps working or at least there’s a known cause and potentially some treatment options, rather than having it control my life!

Been reading some other people saying that lattes are better than just drip coffee because it’s milk forward, was wondering if frappes are less caffeine even yet. Any baristas in the group know?

Backstory: I came down with a relatively moderate sickness around 6-7 weeks ago. It mostly consisted of a fever in the first couple of days, and then a ton of coughing and mucus for the next 5 or 6 days. Afterwards, my throat and inner ears were generally quite sore for weeks. Going out to parties and dances, and talking a lot would induce more pain and make the soreness worse.

I also found that caffeine and some other triggers like lifting were giving me noticeable reflux. I'm not sure if I ever got the reflux before, but now I was noticing it. I experimented different things, and am now on day 11 of omeprazole and my reflux has basically gone away, even with caffeine and exercise.

At this point my journey though, I'm still dealing with throat issues. The pain in my throat and ears are gone, but I'm still dealing with general throat dryness, and occasional sensitive areas around my throat. I also have a mild amount of mucus that's present throughout the day, lot's that I end up swallowing. Obviously, it's gotten a lot better than what I initially was dealing with, but I feel as though it's taking a very long while to fully heal and desensitize.

I also went to an ENT doctor and got the scope that they put through your nose, and she said everything looked fine. I have no voices changes, though laughing and shouting don't feel the best at the moment.

Does anyone have any advice or know how long I should expect to still deal with this?

Hey y’all,

With the World Cup on and what not, I’ve had opportunities to eat a lot more greasy fatty foods along with alcohol. On June 24th I had the worst case of acid reflux I have felt in years a long with gnawing hunger pains even post meals.

Thinking I was now diabetic due to the hunger pangs (since it runs in the family), I scheduled a wellness visit, and I Requested blood work, an Hpylori test, and referral to gastroenterology to hopefully get an endoscopy soon. Dr. told me that for the moment to take famotidine (Pepcid) and to take omeprazole after the Hpylori test next week.

The Pepcid helped with hunger pangs and the regurgitation of food and stomach acid. And I am much better from the Pepcid 20mins before meals. But now I am struggling with other symptoms that I assume are more LPR-like.

As I wait for all of these things to take place, what do you all do to tackle silent reflux. I assume this is what I have since I don’t have heart burn. But have hoarseness, cough, throat irritation and dry mouth.

TIA

Aaand If I talk too much, I wake up the next day with a sore throat and feel sick.
Has anyone experienced this?
Tried caffee stop, i stopped smoking, and drink maybe one time every 2 months one beer or smth like that.
Nothing acid on my diet. Tried already no dairy for 2 weeks.
Someone help?
Is 8.4 ph already alkaline? Its the highest ive found..

LITERALLY NOTHING HELPS

I was travelling in Japan 2 months ago and started to experience tightness in my throat and then excessive burping. It caused a lot of anxiety for me due to the throat sensation. It seemed to last for a week or so and then calmed down. It was after a large meal but in general probably a lot of rich foods leading up to this. I had thought that was the end of it.

About 3 weeks ago I got a cold (could be flu/covid as well I'm not sure), and I seem to have gone from having a viral sore throat to throat tightness from GERD/LPR over the course of a week. Wondering if all of the coughing irritated the lining of my throat, making any acid activity much more noticable. Once I was mainly recovered for a couple days whenever I'd need to talk for a while I'd start coughing uncontrollably due to dryness in my throat and the tightness started soon after.

For the past week or maybe 10 days I've felt the base of my throat is tight and constricting. Whenever I eat, usually within a half hour or hour I have an urge to burp much more than normal and I've felt a pit like feeling in my stomach probably from stress. My throat is also very dry. After exercise I can feel it's got almost no moisture in it until I drink water. I talked to a doctor and he put me on pantoprazole once a day for the next 4 weeks.

I've cut out coffee and fried food over the past several days as well now.

Just sharing my experience recently as it's caused me a lot of anxiety.

—50 yr old female
—Fairly fit
—Never drink-smoke
—Hardly ever sick-no fever-rarely any symptoms of (maybe 10-20% of the time) bloating, acid reflux or sinus drainage.
— I have been food allergy tested (supposedly allergic to sugar (high), dairy and various spices
—CT scan on neck at ER. —negative
— sonogram on neck—negative
— upper GI—dr stated I had thrush (I had a few spots on my throat) gave me nystatin. Didn’t really do anything or make it go away, but I haven’t gotten worse.
—I’ve had several blood tests, nothing alarming on those.
—I’ve seen 6 different doctors and they all suggested (except for the gastroenterologist that suggested I have thrush ) that it sounds like I have chronic sinusitis.
So I’m on and off an allergy pill and famotidine to cover my sinuses and gut.

—No pain relief helps.
— I think I have tried every supplement imaginable for inflammation.
— I’ve tried salt water gargle with warm honey
— herbal teas with honey
—Many different throat sprays

While I’m not a pain level 10 like 2 1/2 years ago when I went to the ER, it is still lingering and will not go away.
Pain level stays at about 1-3.
A sore throat going on three years is miserable.
Please Any suggestions?

Curious if anyone here has a hypersensitive throat that is overproducing constant mucus even tho not eating acidic foods… it may be the case for me.. cuz I don’t respond to acidic suppressants.

I'm not sleeping nor am I having good, consistent bowel movements because of the LPR.

I'm going to stop taking metamucil as well as pepcid tomorrow as things have gotten worse in both of these departments since starting these. Please help me. I'm getting a new appointment with an ENT doctor and a GI doctor on Monday. The stress of this is really getting to me.

I want my life back:( hate being ill 24/7 I wish I was unborn.

I have some questions for some folks who healed or possibly anybody with knowledge.

1. The main symptoms I'm having are mucus building up in my throat after I eat that makes it so I have to clear my throat all the time. It makes my voice hoarse. This seems to happen no matter what I eat at the moment even if it's low fat, low acid. It happens literally minutes after eating, so the food hasn't even begun the digestion process yet. Why is this happening if it's low acid? The food hasn't had enough time to be pushed back up from stomach yet. And does the duration of these symptoms after eating correlate with trigger foods or not?

2. Is what feels like a swollen throat a sign of healing? Sometimes I'm getting the swollen throat after eating. Or is this a sign that certain foods are trigger foods if I'm getting it?

3. Does pepcid also make less pepsin come up into the esophagus and throat?

4. And finally, I'm feeling pretty constipated unless I use a laxative. This just started with the flare up of silent reflux. I've even been taking metamucil for the past week. And the only time I pooped was the day I took miralax too. I'm obviously eating way less food too.

Thank you

Hi I’ve been suffer severe GERD since young but 2024 it got worse was always on ppi but I wasn’t healing that my Gastro put me on vonoprazan 20mg since nov 12 2025 but started tapering off may 2026 with 10 mg everyday until June 05th 2026 everything went well . Then I moved to every other day June 06 2026 and so far good I was fine .then June 17 and June 18 I didn’t take it I had heartburn so I got back to every other day again for few more days. June 22nd I completely stopped and reflux has been wild below i will attached my notes of how it’s going after stopping .

06/22/2026 didn’t take it

06/23/2026 didn’t take it (heartburn)

06/24/2026 didn’t take it (rebound regurgitation)

06/25/2026 didn’t take it (worse heartburn)

06/26/2026 didn’t take it ( less heartburn)

06/27/2026 didn’t take it (way less heartburn tums helps ) d3 50000

06/28/2026 No meds less heartburn

06/29/2026 no meds less heartburn

06/30/2026 no meds heartburn

07/01/2026 no med heartburn due to fever meds Tylenol after iron infusion

07/02/2026 no meds but heartburn I, guessing due to Tylenol and vitamin c

07/03/2026 no meds but severe heartburn but I did take vitamins c again

04/04/2026 no meds severe heartburn but I did take weekly dose of d3 50000

I did call my dr a told him about it and asked what I can do and he mentioned taking it only the days I need it . For instance if for 10 I didn’t had heartburn good but day 11 I did and tum or gaviscon didn’t help then take it . Which I find it absurd. i do take slippery elm capsule which helps a lot and tum and gaviscon which help a little but I don’t want to go back to the meds. Because of a case study I read and because i’m anemic and I have c diff history . Im not sure what to do what to take anymore . any recommendations . h2 blocked makes me so Sleepy. So Im not sure what to do .