The only time my ear filled with wax was when i had an ear infection, at summer camp, and everything was also swollen and inflamed. They gave me antibiotics and had the camp nurse drip hydrogen peroxide in my ear twice a day. I still remember when the hydrogen peroxide ate through the cap of wax. All of a sudden, the pressure was relieved.
I still love hydrogen peroxide.
I just looked up the symptoms and I’ve had them all recently
I don’t know if the words acid reflux were used or I just use it. I’m not sure what they said it was when I got an endoscopy years ago.
My mother’s side of the family all has similar but not exactly the same kind of pain. My mother and both of her brothers have similar issues. However pepsid does help my mother while it does pretty much nothing for me so it isnt exactly the same. Nobody has gallbladder issues. I suppose it could be my gallbladder but that doesn’t run in my family. Mystery pain does though.
2 days is fast. It doesn’t work for me in 2 days or at all. I haven’t tried prilosec in years. Dexilant replaced it which also doesn’t really work.
Google also says that gallbladder issues tend to be on the right side. That’s not the case for me. It’s either both sides or the center. Right now it’s on the left side just off center, not right
Google also told me about referred pain
I’d never heard of Dexilant, but just looked it up. Dexilant is very similar to Prilosec. It’s a new drug in the same family, that acts on the same metabolic pathway. So yeah, if Dexilant isn’t doing anything for you, Prilosec is very unlikely to do any better.
There are some risks to being on acid inhibitors. You don’t digest some nutrients as well, and have a greater risk of some food-borne illnesses. These risks are much greater with the proton-pump inhibitors (like Prilosec or Dexilant) than with the H2 blockers (like famotidine.) If you don’t need them, you should talk to your doctor about tapering off them.
yes, i know. originally i took prilosec and doctor moved me to dexliant because prilosec didn’t work.
i don’t take it all the time. i take it when i have symptoms and then when the symptoms decide to resolve themselves months later, i stop taking it. so it’s not about tapering off. i can just stop taking it entirely. i’m not sure it even does anything.
anyone experiencing a chronic cough due to acid reflux?
At the urgent care. Begging for something (steroid? Antibiotic?) to make the 5 week bronchitis go away. Just tired of it, where every afternoon starts the cough and every night is otc meds. So I diagnosed bronchitis. I don’t care what they call it so long as I get meds stronger than what I have been throwing at it.
Annoyed aside - booked it online where they put you in queue. Arrive to learn…placed in queue based on arrival. Also, a bad sign when the ambulance dudes wheel in the stretcher through the wait room. That won’t open the schedule faster!
z-pac and some sort of perscription cough med. if that doesn’t knock it out, i demand predinsone!
But are you bacterial or viral?!
Doctor gave me something for pneumonia and sinusitis when I had that attack of the itises (sinusitis, bronchitis, laryngitis). Worked wonders (but I’ve heard antibiotics aren’t great for the bronch).
My mom did. She had a cough for decades.
yikes! Guessing there was not much to be done to alleviate it. Pepcid seems to work, but my cough comes back with a vengeance the next day
The guess was non viral bc I have had it for 4-6 weeks. Viruses tend to run the course by then.
My only concern is that zpac won’t cut it. I have previously needed serious antibiotics to get on top of really bad sinus infections or pneumonia.
not really, no. i’m not sure if this is acid reflux or what it is though.
No but I know someone who’d been told that. Turned out to have lung cancer.
saw my gastroenterologist today. he thinks it’s acid reflux even though it’s REALLY REALLY BAD. i couldn’t remember how long i’ve been consistently taking the dexilant, so he said to take it for 2 more weeks and if doesn’t get better to get an mri and an endoscopy. i told him, if you’re gonna give me an endoscopy, MAKE GODDAMN SURE I DON’T GO BLIND!
i asked him several times if he thinks it’s cancer and he said no.
also pretty sure my insurance doesn’t cover dexilant anymore, so gonna make due with the few i have left plus some expired ones. dexilant is fucking expensive without insurance.
That sucks. I’m surprised the gastroenterologist wouldn’t be willing to prescribe something different in that case.
I didn’t realize it until after I got home and had a text from the pharmacy. Will likely ask. Although I have a 1000 deductible on everything medical starting this year, so not sure if that’s the issue or it’s truly not covered. I’m close to that 1k at this point as soon as I pay this other bill where i was charged like 500 to go to a freaking sports doctor. Doesn’t take long to reach 1k. Dexilant is expensive though so wouldn’t be surprised if it’s simply not covered anymore.
Not sure what he was told, but a coworker who was a friend had a chronic cough. It was possibly related to the cancer that killed him. Get checked out. If you did and the result was dr saying acid reflux is causing your cough, treat the reflux aggressively. If cough doesn’t go away, I’m not saying proceed directly to pet scan or MRI, but ask about other tests that would reveal a hidden cancer, IMHO as a hypochondriac.