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Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Chihuahuachick on September 29, 2019, 10:42:42 PM

Title: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: Chihuahuachick on September 29, 2019, 10:42:42 PM

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.

Title: Re: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: friend of lhasa apso on September 30, 2019, 02:09:30 PM

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 .

Title: Re: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: CLKD on September 30, 2019, 02:43:15 PM

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   :o. Eating little and often can ease symptoms.

Title: Re: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: Ladybt28 on September 30, 2019, 03:22:42 PM

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

Title: Re: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: Chihuahuachick on September 30, 2019, 04:30:24 PM

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.

Title: Re: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: AgathaC on September 30, 2019, 08:51:45 PM

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

Title: Re: Peri menopause cause acid reflux?
Post by: Chihuahuachick on September 30, 2019, 09:17:49 PM

Quote from: AgathaC on September 30, 2019, 08:51:45 PM

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?