Originally Posted by
jessieblue
Hi everyone. Can anyone give me any help or reassurance please. I have been suffering with acid reflux symptoms for years on and off. Last two years it has been really bad as I have suffered with severe anxiety and depression in this time. Health anxiety is my main problem and at the moment I am experiencing really bad acid symptoms. I am on omeprazole 20mg daily and i had a prescription of a different make to the normal. These didnt work well for me so I stopped taking them and tried zantac instead. My acid symptoms got really bad over the next few days with a feeling of something sitting in my throat most of the time, like it has leaked out of my stomach and is just sitting butning my oesophagus. This makes me feel nauseous and really panicky and i have now started taking omeprazole again as I cant stand these symptoms. I dont want to go back to my doctor as I know he will send me for an endoscopy and I have a phobia of vomiting so cannot have this procedure done at any cost.
Does anyone have any experience with these sort of symptoms and can it be due to anxiety that they have become worse? I recently lost my mum, who I cared for and I have been very low since, which in turn makes my anxiety worse. I wish I knew where to get some help, I feel very alone and afraid with these feelings.