Hernia Support Group
There are several kinds of hernias, but the all happen when pressure pushes an organ (often the intestine) through a weak spot in a muscle face or wall. Treatment for hernias can be no treatment, to medicines to surgery. Modern surgical methods to treat hernias are much improved over older techniques and recovery times are much shorter.
I've been living with a diagnosed hiatal hernia for about a year, my symptoms before diagnosis were vomiting 24/7 with shortness of breath and stomach pain, after diagnosis and being put on medication i was able to manage my symptoms to where i could at least function and go to work again. Eventually I was able to get to the point where i was living i pretty normal life again only being sick with reflux a couple times a month. Here recently i have started to relapse back into being sick every day, Im not sick all day like before just in mornings but I have absolutely no appetite, what concerns me is I now have new symptoms, Ive developed a cough, my throat is sore all of the time I imagine from the acid reflux, but im also getting a new pain in my chest on both the left and right side that doesnt seem to be affected by eating or breathing, I have the pain in the center of the chest associated with heartburn but these dull pains throughout my upper chest are new to me has anyone else had this symptom?
on the gerd site there are comments about feeling weird symptoms around the chest as well with silent reflux. I think when the esophagus is inflamed you feel it in a lot of places.
The coughing and sore throat sounds like silent reflux.
You need to pay attention to these symptoms, you dont want to chronically have reflux.
Double check with your doctor on the chest issue.
unless you have a large HH you should be able to manage this purely by diet and prop yourself up at night. You need to stop night time refluxing completely.
Work on your diet to prevent further gastritis issues and then prevent the reflux from happening. Gastritis can become chronic very quickly and it is way more challenging to manage than reflux is.
This issue is all about diet and stress reduction.