Just got a diagnosis today (please answer all my questions if you can)

I have been coughing for 15 or more years so bad that I thought I broke my ribs in coughing spells that lasted 4 plus hours. this actually had thrown out my back and the pain radiated around the ribs I later discovered) Just violent attacks that came and went (no cold symptoms with it–worst when lying down

it comes and goes.

For years I thought I had chronic breonchitis, then I thought an allegy to mold, one doctor thought it was post nasal drip

Yesterday, I had an upper gi test. I was told I have “high level gastroesophigial relux” multiple instances. He said it was bad and going up to the throat or something.

A doctor doing a biopsy said my glbbus sensation (lump in throat that sometimes causes choking and coughing.

The coughing is worst when I lay down.

I was recently told by a doctor doing a thyroid biopsy on me that he thought I had larengoesophigeal reflux and the problem was likle ynot my thyroid.

In researching I saw that this disorder causes a lot of clear phelm to be coughed up. It has been so bad I could not breath for a minute last week as my throat clogged up with phelm and now think it is causing or exacerbating my sleep apnea which is destroying my life as I am getting little rem and stage 3-4 sleep despite a bipap pressure setting of about 20. I figure when I am asleep I am not coughing due to wearing a large full face mas and without consciuous, it is staying in my throat and causing me to not breath. could the two be connected. I heard there is a correlastion.

One of my querstiuon is (no 2 docotrs did not know or answer)

all this clear, kinda sticky phelm I am coughing up, is it from my lungs or stomach?

Could it be a protective mechanism of the body to coat my throat to sooth and lessen the damage tot he esophagus from the acid burning it form the reflux

questions

1 where is it coming from (stomach, liungs or body’s portective mechanism)

2 could this be causing or exacerbvating my sleep apnea (I sleep on my back as only way I am comfortable)

3 can any kind of lung test detrermine if something is going on with my lungs

4 is there any way to heal the esophagus, or fix this sphincter muscle that is letting it reflux up naturally

I am afraid to take the drugs for it, and he said the surgery is rarely done and risky and they probably would not cover it but drugs. Can I heal this naturally

If I took a ppi drug, would I need to be on it for lifetime or can t be fixed in 6 months (a doctor who made other factual errors told me this so not sure I trust her). Would the drugs make the esophagus heal and if I then went off wouldn’t it come right

5 will this eventually become acid reflux with heartburn or cause barrett’s esophagus if untreated

6 does one have too little or too much stomach acid or does this not matter..don’t those drugs lower your stomach acid.

Specialist today would not answer questions..have not seen family doctor yet but she had mentioned drugs which I read bad things about.
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A doctor doing a biopsy said my globbus sensation (lump in throat that sometimes causes choking and coughing. WAS LIKELY CAUSED BY THE FLAP IN THE THROAT EENLARGING TO TRY TO COMPENSATE

AN ENDROCHROGOLIST I SAW TODAY CONCERNING MY THYROID SAID IT WAS 995 SURE TO BE CAUSED BY THE REFLUX (THE LUMP IN THE THROAT SENSATION THAT SOMETIMES HAS ME COUGHING AND CHOKING AND IS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN IT IS HERE BUT IT COMES AND GOES..NO SENSATION FOR 2 weeks
sorry about typos hope it is legible

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