Originally Posted by
Serenity1990
Reflux issues, whether GERD or LPR aren't necessarily permanent. Given you suffer from anxiety it could simply go away when you deal with your anxiety, or alternatively it can be entirely elevated with diet. I have silent reflux and omeprozole didn't help at all, but diet has pretty much got rid of it. Whoever has told you it's permanent is talking rubbish: if it's due to hiatal hernia it is but otherwise that's just garbage.
The increased cancer risk is very small, and is zero if you deal with it.
As much as 1/3 of the British population are estimated to develop reflux (silent or otherwise), it really isn't at all serious.