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[Chihuahuachick]

I've never had indigestion. Lsst Oct, 2 years into peri I was diagnosed with acid reflux.

Can you get acid reflux as a symptom of peri?

I'm 47, menopause runs early in family. Never had a missed or later period ever.

[friend of lhasa apso]

Hello Chihuahua chick !
  Yes my symptoms started with awful acid reflux and a feeling of a lump in my throat .The doc gave me lansoprazole 30 mg which helped and I also take gaviscon advance liquid when really bad .
It's caused supposedly by a weaker valve at bottom of stomach which doesn't close properly .
   Always best to get it checked out at your gps though .

[CLKD]

Yep.  Common for ladies of a certain age to get hiatus hernia  which allows reflux.  As oestrogen levels drop off so muscles may become lax .....

I find 'rennies' useful and don't eat too close to bed time otherwise acids works back up   . Eating little and often can ease symptoms.

[Ladybt28]

Yep I had terrible acid reflux and as like, friend of Lhasa says, with a weird feeling that there was something stuck in my throat.  Also given lansoprazole.  It stopped once I got on the right hrt although I still get the reflux sometimes if I eat too late at night but that can happen anytime without it being due to meno.  Stuck in throat thing gone completely though.x

[Chihuahuachick]

Thanks for the advice, it's greatly appreciated.

I am convinced my reflux is due to perimenopause. I don't smoke or drink and I'm not overweight.

Thankfully it is easing off a year after it started. At least I am off the tablets now.

[AgathaC]

A bit fat yes from me.
That's how my perimenopause journey started.

[Chihuahuachick]

A bit fat yes from me.
That's how my perimenopause journey started.

AgathaC, do you mean that finding you had acid reflux flagged up the perimenopause?