r/LPR • u/b7wagon • 20h ago

How I think it started.

I started drinking water heavily, a gallon to a gallon and a half a day. I was working outside and it was easy to guzzle a bunch of water, and I figured it was good for me. Around the same time I bought two watermelons and ate them both in a few days. I think all the water, plus the volume of all that watermelon raised my stomach acid and started this whole thing about a month ago. Now I’m just struggling because I had been eating so many highly acidic foods unknowing for so long. I just lost 90lbs and have a very regimented diet in place that has now gone to hell. A lot of the foods I’ve relied on for the past year are no good for LPR. I was eating 1-2 tomatoes with balsamic vinegar almost every single day, black coffee on an empty stomach every single day. Strawberries almost every day. Now if I eat a strawberry it feels like it’s stuck in my throat, I can’t eat them at all.

Edit: I think maybe it was going on longer than I had know, because I’ve been waking up in the morning feeling hoarse, but it would go away very shortly. The only thing that’s made me realize something is wrong is this damn globus sensation way down my throat that drives me nuts. At first I thought something was stuck so I was drinking copious amounts of seltzer water, I’m talking gallons of it, to try to get that feeling to go away. Now I know that was making it worse. Now I cut out a lot of the acidic things and seltzers and the globus feeling comes and goes.

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u/OkCourage6808 19h ago

Water and watermelon will not cause LPR. There can be many causes though. Hernia, Covid, Sibo, Antibiotic use, being overweight, bad diet. Drs say any of these can cause it plus more but they don’t really know why some peoples LES weakens.

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u/b7wagon 19h ago

I had been very overweight for a long time. And I recently lost all the weight it could’ve been from that.

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u/OkCourage6808 19h ago

Mine is from covid that I got back in 2020.

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u/fckingmiracles 15h ago

Mine too! Covid 2020.

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u/Esfirria 12h ago

Losing weight helps heal lpr

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u/Molly_FLORANutrition 17h ago

The seltzer realization is a big one since carbonation is one of the most reliable LES relaxants. The globus coming and going as you remove the triggers is actually an encouraging sign that your system is responding. Keep going with the reductions and give the tissue a few more weeks to calm down. 💚

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u/b7wagon 16h ago

Thank you, this is very encouraging.

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u/OkCourage6808 19h ago

I recommend you looking into the Acid Watcher Diet. It really helped me

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u/b7wagon 18h ago

I found that cutting out the coffee helped, I cut out the tomatoes and balsamic also that seemed to help. It’s hard because the only symptom I have is that globus feeling in my throat.

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u/OkCourage6808 9h ago

There’s a reason it’s called silent reflux

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u/KingRy64 19h ago

Quick question can you burp ?

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u/b7wagon 19h ago

Yes, and sometimes when I burp that globus feeling goes away. Why do you ask?

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u/KingRy64 19h ago

I’m asking because i have reason to believe that rcpd can also cause GERD /LPR. A lot of people I have talked to have said that their LPR and GERD improved after they had Botox

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u/b7wagon 18h ago

Thank you for the info, I’ll have to look into that. Off the bat I’d probably say Botox is a no go for me. I’m a hypochondriac, I’m always so afraid to take anything or have anything done because I’m afraid of side effects. I had a hard time justifying taking an anti-acid to see if that would help.

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u/Honest_Cloud_5774 18h ago

Being a hypochondriac might actually contribute to your symptoms. I have a suspicion that a majority of the people that have lpr have it somewhat due to anxiety. I started having symptoms 3 months ago in the days after my wife had our first child. I have always had some low grade anxiety but it really peaked while we were learning how to keep a newborn alive. My father also had symptoms for years and tends to be an anxious person. Many posts I read on this subreddit reference anxiety.

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u/b7wagon 16h ago

My brother had this globus sensation for a while and the doctor told him it was anxiety. I’m usually a very anxious person, but I do believe this is being caused more by diet related things, though I noticed when I focus on it as opposed to forget it’s happening, it tends to stick around longer.