Severe acid reflux less than a week before surgery day
Im curious if anyone has had experience with acid reflux pre tonsillectomy, i just had the worst acid reflux of my life last night, it was triggered because i overstuffed myself yesterday, plus a lot of that food was sour, ended up regurgitating most of that food and puking it out, but that process also brought up a lot of acid ontop of it's already sourness, had to wait all night for the drug store to open to buy some antacids, anyways, my surgery date is on Friday, and after doing a little bit of self research i learned that general anaesthesia supresses the natural bodily responses to stomach acid coming up, meaning if i had acid reflux during my surgery, nothing would stop the acid from breaching my lungs and i could get pneumonia, which sounds terrifying as fuck to be honest, however i have chronically mild acid reflux but its pretty much entirely self induced, from overstuffing myself when i eat, eating overstimulating foods like sour, spicy, etc, so I've decided to strictly eat bland foods only and take gaviscon 4 times a day and bought myself some lesoprazam that I'll take for the days leading up to the surgery, hopefully so that i don't have to reschedule, so im just wondering if anyone has a similar experience to this and if im overreacting or if I'm being reasonable
Posted May 12, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC