Remission from LPR
I decided to post here because I want to inform you guys that are suffering since I'm back here now after a flare from a respiratory virus on how to put this thing into remission for a while.
For the isolated LPR sufferers, you need to understand why you have this issue, the problem is the upper sphincter, you have two valves the LES and UES, with isolated LPR sufferers, your LES is fine but your UES is not, perhaps you caught a respiratory infection and have a hiatal hernia that is asymptomatic but you coughed and put temporary pressure on the LES during a cold and refluxed some pepsin upwards to your throat causing damage, and it's a never ending cycle from there on, the UES stops being a safe guard because it's inflamed by pepsin so acid & pepsin will keep coming back up, it can never really seal.
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We need a high dose PPI (x2 40 mg) for at least 6 months, last time it took me a whole year to go into remission.
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We need a pH 5 diet, nothing too crazy and strict you don't want to mentally insane from having a too strict of a diet but pH 5 is a must.
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Don't lay down 3 hours before bed, lay on the left side until you've achieved remission.
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I found that alginates weren't enough, the high dose and pH 5 diet was a must.
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Alkaline water throughout the day/when I felt irritation worked great to reduce the irritated UES from the pepsin.
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You must avoid stress at all costs, this is my main trigger and causes flare ups once I'm in remission, once this happens, my tongue and throat becomes inflamed for exactly 24 hours, then I'm good again, if I catch a cold I'm back here and have to do the regimen for 6 months to a year again.
I thought I couldn't do any of the diet stuff for that long and it sounds exhausting but it really is the only way for isolated LPR sufferers, surgery won't do anything for these people since the problem isn't the LES, it's the UES. If you have GERD and LPR as a combination then that's a whole different story.
Posted Aug 14, 2025, 12:39 AM UTC