Consultations

If you’ve had reflux for a while, you’ve probably already done the rounds. Seen the doctor. Tried the PPIs. Cut out coffee, tomatoes, chocolate, and half the things you used to enjoy. And you’re still clearing your throat twenty times a day, or still waking at 2am with burning in your chest, wondering what on earth is going on.

I know that feeling because I lived in it for years.

Here’s the thing I wish someone had told me sooner: it’s almost never that you haven’t tried hard enough. It’s that the advice you were given didn’t fit the problem in front of it.

That’s most obvious with silent reflux. LPR gets treated as though it’s just GERD that went north — same pills, same food list, same shrug when it doesn’t work. But it plays by its own rules. Pepsin behaves differently in the throat, the pH thresholds are different, timing matters more, and acid suppression alone often isn’t the answer. Miss all that and you can do everything “right” and still get nowhere. It’s the single most misunderstood version of reflux, and it’s where I’ve done most of my work.

But the same principle applies right across the board. Classic heartburn and GERD are better understood, yet plenty of people still end up stuck on a PPI indefinitely with nobody explaining what’s actually driving it, whether they can come off, or what to do about the reflux that breaks through anyway. And a fair few people have both — chest symptoms and throat symptoms at once — and get bounced between specialists who each only look at their half of it.

Wherever you sit on that spectrum, that’s what these calls are for. Time with someone who’s read the research, had the condition, and sat with hundreds of people in exactly your position — and who’ll give you a straight answer instead of another leaflet.

Who you’ll be talking to

David G.— Medical journalist, reflux researcher, and former sufferer

I’m not a gastroenterologist and I won’t pretend to be one. What I am is someone who has spent over a decade reading the reflux literature properly — the studies most people never see, the ones that explain why silent reflux behaves so differently from heartburn — and translating it into something you can actually use. Silent reflux is where I’ve gone deepest, but I’ve spent just as long on GERD and heartburn, because in practice they overlap far more than the textbooks suggest.

I started because I had it myself. Years of throat clearing, a voice that came and went, and a stack of advice that didn’t work. Working out my own way through it turned into Wipeout Reflux, which now reaches thousands of people a month, and into hundreds of one-to-one calls with people who’d hit the same wall.

So when we talk, you’re getting two things at once: someone who knows the evidence, and someone who knows what 3am feels like when your throat won’t settle. I’ll be straight with you about what’s likely to help, what probably won’t, and when the honest answer is that you need a doctor rather than me.

What I can help you with

Silent reflux is my specialism, but I work with the full range — LPR, GERD, classic heartburn, and the many people who have some combination of all three. These are the things that come up most:

• Working out what you’re actually dealing with — LPR, GERD, both at once, non-acid reflux, or something that’s being mistaken for reflux entirely.
• The throat symptoms nobody explains properly — the lump, the constant clearing, hoarseness, post-nasal drip, the cough that won’t quit, breathing that feels tight.
• Heartburn and chest symptoms that keep coming back — burning, regurgitation, that pressure behind the breastbone, and reflux that breaks through even on medication.
• Getting off PPIs without the rebound — how to taper properly, what to expect, and what to put in place before you start so it doesn’t backfire.
• Sorting out the food chaos — what genuinely matters, what doesn’t, and how to stop living on an ever-shrinking list of “safe” foods.
• Alginates, supplements and what’s worth your money — Gaviscon Advance, how and when to take it, and which supplements have real evidence behind them.
• Night-time reflux and sleep — positioning, timing, and why you wake up feeling worse than when you went to bed.
• Knowing what to ask for next — which tests are worth pushing for, which are a dead end, and how to have a more productive conversation with your doctor.
• A plan when you’ve plateaued — you improved, then stalled, and can’t work out what’s left to change.

You set the agenda. If you want to spend the whole call on one thing, that’s fine. If you want a full review from the top, that’s fine too.

How it works

We meet online over Google Meet. You’ll get a link in your email — no account or software needed, it opens straight in your browser. I’ll ask about your symptoms, your history, what you’re taking, what you eat, and what you’ve already tried. Then we build a plan together, out loud, so you understand not just what to do but why it should work for you specifically.

No script, no upsell, no vague “everyone’s different” hand-waving. Just a clear conversation and a practical route forward.

What people say after a call

Choose what fits

Not sure which one you need? Email me at david@wipeoutreflux.com and I’ll tell you honestly — including if I think you don’t need a call at all.

Book your consultation

Pick your option below and check out — that’s the only step that needs you right now. As soon as you’ve booked, I’ll be in touch by email to lock in a time that suits you and send your Google Meet link. Nothing to install and no account to set up: the call opens straight in your browser.

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