When is heartburn not heartburn?

Digestive health
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I've been searching for some help with my situation but can't seem to find anyone in a siilar boat.

For the past 5 weeks I've had a burning feeling deep in the centre of my right chest. It feels like it's half-way between my chest and my back. It comes on around 11am and stays all day. 

My doctor put me on 60mg of Omeprazole a day as he thought it was heartburn. It did nothing. Nothing at all. It's not the same feeling as indigestion/acid reflux. I've had that when I was pregnant and this is different. It's not food or drink related, it's not worse when I lie down and it's pretty much every single day, all day. The only relief I get is when I'm asleep.

Occasionally I'll get one full day when the burning stops and I feel amazing ... and then the next day, BAM, it's back. It's really getting me down and my doctor just keeps saying I have heartburn but I KNOW it's not that. 

Has anyone else experienced something like this?

I do have health anxiety but this has been five weeks of hell and I'm not convinced it's just my anxiety causing this pain.

Thanks in advance.

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None of the ppi worked for me - finally they diagnosed me with acid BILE reflux gastritis even though I never burb or have bile coming up

They put me on motilium and it helped 

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So sorry you are hoing through this. Maybe get a second opinion and get more tests done..I pray you find the solution.

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Going...not hoing...

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Thanks

It's called bile ACID reflux gastritis 

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PPI just need more time to be effective, I spent a year on PPIs on daily basis until I fully recovered (Hopefully)

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You mean you can actually recover from this?

How did you get off the ppi?  Are you now ok?

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I had very wrid symptoms that heartburn comes when I exert myself or run for an amount of time. Did a lot of heart tests (although I'm still young) and everything was fine. Did an endoscopy and it was also good. Then I realized that symptoms come back when I suddenly reduce my ppi from 40mg to 20mg hence it caused a confusion. So started decreasing it gradually from 40mg to 10mg over around 6 months. Now I feel okay and I got back to exercising with no symptoms.

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Mmmmm are you thinking that was caused by taking the ppi?

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No, I believe it was caused by two factors:

- not being patient enough until the medicine is effective.

- Reducing the dose suddenly by half

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I took ppi for a month and got off and have been for about 2.5 weeks but few nights ago was awakened with horrendous burning pain. I had no idea there are repercussions with getting off a ppi.

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Same happened to me at the beginning

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They call this "rebound", when acid starts building again and becomes worse than before

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I never knew all of this. I am new to this acid reflux/globus..thanks for info...

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Are you still taking the ppi