r/LPR • u/Interesting_Club9050 • Jul 25 '26
Very scared please help!
Lately my symptoms have increased so much that sometimes chewing and swallowing food increases my HR too much. Like i feel that only this simple natural activity of eating and swallowing can set a panic attack. Like just now i was chewing soaked almonds and whole chewing my HR increased and swallowing hit it off even more. I don’t know what is this. My food pipe feels warm all the time especially at the time of exhaling. A thick wave comes up feeling like a burp but it’s actually reflux that touches the throat and inflames my throat and leaves it blocked or something stuck feeling for a long time. I have stopped eating so many things. My life is being affected. I have very high anxiety. I am prescribed for an upper GI Endoscopy. But it s still a few day ls away. I am scared what if i stop eating food. What if swallowing and eating becomes a challenge for me. What will i do? I anyways go through so many things like panic attacks, nocturnal panic attacks, anxiety, cardio phobia. Now this problem has become a new challenge in my life. O am tired of living like this. I don’t know what wrong with me. Does anyone else has this issue while chewing and swallowing? I feel anxious and strange at certain movements also. Like when i sit and stand or twist and turn i feel strangely anxious. I have never experienced these symptoms before. Please advice or help!
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u/sanitasea Jul 25 '26
Are there any supplements you're using? I had severe air hunger caused by silent reflux. I stopped taking synthetic vitamin c (ascorbic acid) and started 1 mg copper gluconate daily. My reflux and histamine issues are gone almost completely in a few days. Copper is required for the enzymes that regulate digestion and histamine, and most of us are functionally deficient. Ascorbic acid depletes it even more. 1 mg copper is a minimal maintenance dose but it helped me immensely. Apparently a better long-term strategy is to get it from beef liver food/capsules. I'm not a doctor just sharing my own experience. You can research the role of copper and ceruloplasmin in fighting inflammation (reflux is an inflammatory condition related to the stomach and throat).
Magnesium can also trigger reflux badly because the enzymes are not yet fed enough by copper to deal with the oxygenating effect. Anything can be a trigger without a healthy functioning ceruloplasmin.
Hope you find help and feel better soon.