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Anxious-Tune2479

WHAT DO I TAKE NEXT? Pls help

sort of long but PLS TAKE TIME READING if u can 💔

I WOULD PAY $1000 TO WHOEVER can somewhat find a solution! I SWEAR

So I’m having bad trouble with reflux/gastrist symptoms. I can literally feel water behind my nose most times or rumbling and burning in my throat or stomach.

It gets the WORST WHEN I TAKE MY PREDNISONE which I have to everyday! If I take too high of a dose i get worse symptoms. I understand that prednisone destroys the stomach so I try to eat a little before I take it.

I had 4 episodes where im coughing up non stop mucus/foamy spit and basically it’s so bad I need someone to slightly hold my head to spit it out.

I’ve done a endoscopy in February they said I had gastritis, lots of inflammation in the beginning of the lower small intestines. Duodenal Bulb?? I’ve tried Pepcid got a horrible reaction off of it, redness wheezing etc..

Tums, maalox. Gaviscon.

PPIS I tried was pantoprazole (tried for a month 0 improvement)

Tried ometprozole 2 times only the first time I woke up with a flushed face the next day then I tried again in the ER and got red and itchy but I don’t fully know if it was the med or me getting a reaction due to some crackhead that was caught smoking in the ER.

So I don’t even know if I should try that again. SHOULD I?

I’m also bed bound which def doesn’t help either I try to sit myself up as much as I can though!

I constantly hear gargling in my throat which I did also hear in November of last year but I mainly got the gargling in my throat whenever I was near a strong smell like perfume or smoke etc.. very strange ik. (I also have Addison disease if that could somehow effect this, could it be too low cortisol?)

My diet as of now is plain bland ground beef, lean ground beef, very low fat. Days ago it was so bad I couldn’t even swallow thankfully I can a bit now.

I also have lots of problems with other foods. For some reason chicken and turkey makes me itch and gives me a crazy reaction and lamb gave me hives.

I will say this, in February - mid April I had like no symptoms of reflux or facial flushing in my face or reaction to food much. I was in the er for almost 2 months. January and February. February was when I started to feel better but all I did differently really was take 50000 of vitamin D 1 a week, and take multiple vitamins 1 time a day. ( I was VERY LOW IN VITAMIN D around 5? 10 I don’t know the number they said) and I was given 5mg of prednisone a day for Addison. Once I got home I stopped the vitamin D and multivitamins 3 weeks later due to me feeling sick not sure if 1 of them were making me feel that way.

I tried to think of everything I did differently!! I’m sorry for writing so much.

Low vitamins?

Low food intake?

Low cortisol??

Stress???

Sibo? Histamine? UGHHH!

And NO I CANT SEE A DOCTOR AS OF NOW AND I UNDERSTAND REDDIT ISNT FULL OF DOCTORS I’m only here to see what worked for others and their advice and experience.

I’m sorry I’m very stressed, scared anxious!

Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:14 PM UTC

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