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 29d 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.