prednisone and reflux

About a year and a half ago, I had a severe asthma episode and coschondrits for the first time. I was put on a 2 week coarse of Prednisone along with ibuprofen. By the end I had developed an issue swallowing pills. Even my small thyroid ones felt like they got stuck. Then it progressed to coughing up small hard bits of food, severe reflux, etc. After too much testing, the problem mostly resolved except for lingering occasional esophageal spasms and the thought that some was just hypersesivity.

I became ill feeling and felt I had the flu and went into the ER where the prescribed Azithromycin and Prednisone I was reluctant to take them as I do not take medicine unless its absolutely necessary, Not even a Tylenol. I did take it and felt fantastic that day and the burning went away while on the 4 day treatment of medication , the burning sensation returned after the 4 day medicine treatment.

After taking that, I still have had bad acid reflux and GERD, so the Gastro doctor put me on a few medicines for acid - finally resulting in ranitidine which worked the best. I was around 220lbs at the time, for reference. After that I was healthy for a while so long as I took the ranitidine, only having minor nausea. I was only needing 75mg at the time.

It is related to both asthma and sleep apnea. Prednisone should help with asthma symptoms and GERD can give you the exact same symptoms (I'm proof of that - wheezing, lowered peak flows, positive lung function tests, coughing). The best test for this is 24 pH monitoring or impedance testing - it measures the reflux over a 24 hour period to diagnose.

on top of three hour breathing treatments, and my other normal medications. I have been on prednisone and have the munchies from that so... there never really is a time that I go a full 2 hours without eating. I will be stopping the prednisone soon and some of the other meds are temporary as well. Hopefully, I will get a routine going soon. Not coping well at the moment. Take care.

question the diagnosis, I was given the pulmonary function tests. I have restrictive lung disease, and acid reflux. The reflux was causing some of the coughing, especially at night. I would gasp on inhale when I coughed. That is what led my Dr. to think of reflux. I still have shortness of breath, but the gasping and coughing are better on the reflux medicine.

prescribed by his gastroenterologist right after the colonoscopy (Sulfasal-azine - two 3x day (180) and Prednisone (105) - five tablet ev. day for 7 days, then 4, 3, 2 and 1, respectively for 7 days each). The number of times he is passing a stool per day has decreased to an average of 3x, which is a great improvement. He has no pain when using the toilet, nor does he have any other pain.

I have been diagnosed with Lupus Pnuemonitis last month and I have been taking low dose of prednisone and prilosec. I still have this tingling, numbness and sensitiveness in both hands and fingers, hoarseness in my voice and acid reflux. I am a pharmacy technician, but in disability right now. Is it possible that I can go back to work.

I am on Prednisone, Cellebrex, now Plaqunel, Serzone and Nexium for reflux. I hate pills and I never thought I would be on so many. But I have skipped the Cellebrex to see if I need it and I was so bad I had to take a Darvacette that night. Ugg!

This is common with GERDS and acid-reflux syndromes. Normally the esophagus and trachea are very resistant to infection If there is acid refluc, the situation changes. The acid destroys the barrier to bacterial infection, and together with the prednisone the patient becomes prone to a sore throat, and infection which may rapidly progress to the lung. Thus, the drill is, when on high-dose oral predisone, avoid esophageal acid erosion. I don't know why this information is not widely known.

That was the experience of myself and child on prednisone. So, if you are having increased anxiety and depression and mood changes, yes. I think it could be related to prednisone.

Also sometimes they will just cough to clear there throat, but every child is different our son was born with esophageal atresia down syndrome and tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia and laryngomalacia, so i can relate. I have a web site at kaylapearson.com.

Then, a year ago I breathed in some glue that was pretty toxic, my throat and airway swelled and it was hard to breathe, I was prescribed flovent and prednisone and it calmed down in about a week. Since then I have had bronchitus twice, pneumonia once and been on prednisone 9 times. About 2 weeks ago I was in a store and breathed in a body spray that made my tongue swell 3 times its size and my throat swelled.

Sorry in advance but this will be a long post. Im 23 yrs old, f. Diagnosed of asthma since i was a child. I could have no asthma attack for months but when i do it is worse. Im not currently taking any maintenance before this started. Ive had an asthma flare up last month (March 2016) due to sore throat and cold. I've went to see my doctor and he prescribed me Symbicort, Albuterol neb and Z pack. Usually, this medicine combination would work for me but this time it doesn't.

Took 2 antibiotics, 3 bottles of Prednisone and 2 shots of Solu-Medrol, an inhaler, a nebulizer w/ albuterol and lot of rest. My pulmonologist thinks I got the bronchitis from GERD. I have aspirated stomach acid into my lungs and scar tissue has formed. He thinks I have done that again and caused the bronchitis. I also had shortness of breath and chronic cough. Recently I have started having heart palpitations after I eat. Also lot of headaches and occasionally spike a 99.2 fever.

He slowly got me to wane off of the meds that I thought I really needed and now down from 3 puffs of advair 500/50 twice a day to only using ventolin/atrovent 1-2 a week (due to acid reflux irriating my lungs). He was the one that led me down the reflux rotate and it looks likes that the problem with possible celiac disease or gluten issues. Hopefully you have the same success with the pulmonologist as I did. Good luck!!

Over the last two weeks I have had coughing fits which are uncontrollable and at the same time I am sneezing and my eyes are watering. This can happen anywhere and on one occasion I tried to ring my husband to bring me a ventolin inhaler but I could barely speak to talk to him - he got the idea of what I was saying and came immediately to my work. This was the first time I have had fits like this. It now happens at least once a day and today when I was in the supermarket.

I was diagnosed with acid reflux six years ago and after trying Nexium and everything else, I have been taking Omeprazole (Prilosec) twice a day for about 4 years. I've also made ALL of the dietary changes doctors have recommended. I don't smoke or drink, I sleep on a very expensive adjustable bed. Yet... it's obvious that the acid is not under control because when I eat, I get asthma! Now, I've had asthma since I was six, but it would only flare up after a bad cold.

Benedryl does nothing, the meds they kept trying made me sleep all day and the hives came right back, prednisone made it go away til it wore off. I get terrible acid reflux and stomach pain when i get them, please give me some advise on what to do? My family has nerve issues and terrible anxiety which isn't helping the situation!

Not sure what your history with RA is. Normally treatment is started with Plaquenil and then move onto Prednisone or DMARD's or immune suppressants. You could try other things but I imagine they would only help with the pain and not necessarily the joint degeneration. With the drugs they can halt or slow down joint and organ damage.

I have been to see the doctor 4 times. I have been told it was a cold, I have been told it was GERD / acid reflux and I have been told it was bronchitis. I have been on antibiotics and Prednisone twice. I was also given an albuterol inhaler and none of these things helped. I have also been having difficultly taking in a deep breath and feel out of breath if I walk up steps. Other than the coughing and shortness of breath I have no other symptoms.

I was given 50mg of prednisone to wean off of. I was also given a three day regiment of azithromicin (zythromax) and Tussionex to control the cough. I was also given a DuoNeb. None of which seemed to work. After checking in with my primary care, i was given a flovent inhaler, to no avail. Following that, i was put on 80mg of prednisone, down to 60, then weaned off.

Hi Misssy2, yes I have had the hiatus hernia, which is basically the valve in the oesphegos(?) not closing and is faulty and causes reflux, for several years. Doc said at time of diagnosis it's not something you fix as it's is very tricky. But it can be managed quite easily. So it's not the hernia. I have no obstruction in my breathing just very hard to breathe in and out. If I take a deep breath my chest kind of locks and my chest shudders on exhaling.

Hello. I've had shortness of breath, chest pains and side pains x2 weeks now. I started with this cough that won't go ago a week ago. Went to my dr and she did a chest x-ray and labs. The chest x-ray was normal and all of the labs but the D-Dimer came back normal. They gave me a shot of steroids and started me on prednisone. I've been on the prednisone since last Friday and don't feel any better. I did a stat CT of my chest last Friday which came back fine.

some people say that with central apnea the brain senses some sort of threat from GERD and acid reflux and stops the signal to breathe. I wheeze though all the time when I exhale. I exhale for less than a second and then the breath stops! but not when I inhale?

After the most recent bout of chest pain and pain under the sternum with a negative d-dimer and normal chest X-ray I was put on the prednisone due to asthma and what they thought was pleurisy and started on 40mcg Qvar and albuterol as needed .

I gained 20lbs rapidly and am full of fluid. Blurred vision and headaches. I was given prednisone 2.5mgs. 2x daily. When I take only one pill [2.5] I have episodes of hot/sweating, dizzy spells,frequent urination, chest pains, worsening rapid heart rate with fluttering, stomach cramps, over acid stomach/reflux and distention,feelings of fear etc...My doc has told me hydrocortisone is for bad adrenals and mine is pituitary and it binds salt, so I need pred.

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