This category covers Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease or GERD for short. GERD is a severe form of acid reflux with the most common symptom being heartburn.
Baclofen is not a reflux drug by design. It started life as a muscle relaxant for conditions like spasticity, and it is still mainly known for that. But it has a second trick that makes it genuinely interesting for stubborn reflux: it works upstream of acid entirely, reducing the …
If you have been researching prokinetics, you have probably run into domperidone. It comes up a lot in reflux forums, usually framed as the drug that “tightens the valve” and “speeds up your stomach.” The short answer is that domperidone can help some people with acid reflux and LPR, …
If you’ve researched prescription options for stubborn reflux, you may have come across metoclopramide — sold as Reglan in the US and Maxolon in the UK. It’s a prokinetic drug, meaning it speeds up the movement of your digestive tract, and on paper that sounds ideal for reflux. So …
Metoclopramide (Reglan) for Acid Reflux: Does It Work? Read More
Jolting awake coughing and spluttering, with a sour or bitter fluid at the back of your throat and a desperate need to clear your airway — it’s a horrible way to wake up, and it frightened me the first few times it happened. What you’re experiencing is usually aspiration: …
Waking Up Choking From Acid Reflux (Aspiration Explained) Read More
If you’ve been down the reflux rabbit hole, you’ve probably come across prokinetics — a class of drugs that speed up the movement of your digestive tract. The logic sounds compelling: empty the stomach faster and tighten the valve above it, and there should be less acid to reflux …
Most reflux advice fixates on the valve at the top of the stomach — and it matters. But there is a second half of the story that gets almost no attention: how quickly your esophagus cleans up after acid comes back up. That job belongs to esophageal motility, the …