This category is covering Laryngopharyngeal Reflux or LPR for short. It is a form of acid reflux that can affect the throat, sinuses and more.
If you’re wondering whether your LPR is healing, the most reliable early sign is that your symptoms are easing — less throat clearing, a lump sensation that’s fading, a voice that’s clearing, fewer bad mornings. Those improvements are real progress, even though they arrive well before your throat has …
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If your silent reflux keeps coming back just when you thought you’d beaten it, you’re not doing anything wrong — you’re running into the nature of the condition. Silent reflux (LPR) is often a recurring or chronic problem rather than a one-off, and most relapses come down to a …
That persistent bitter or metallic taste in your mouth can absolutely come from silent reflux. When stomach contents rise all the way up to the back of your throat and mouth — as they do in LPR — they leave behind a sour, bitter, or metallic tang. But there’s …
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Yes — silent reflux can cause and worsen anxiety, and it does it in two distinct ways. Physically, reflux and the brain are wired together through the gut-brain axis, and the evidence points to reflux genuinely raising the risk of anxiety. Experientially, silent reflux (LPR) produces a set of …
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Yes — silent reflux can absolutely cause insomnia. Reflux reaching your throat at night makes it harder to fall asleep, wakes you during the night, and pulls you out of sleep too early in the morning. And unlike most causes of insomnia, this one runs both ways: reflux disrupts …
If you have silent reflux and feel constantly tired, the two are very likely connected. Silent reflux (LPR) is a night-time problem as much as a throat one, and the reflux that irritates your larynx while you sleep also fragments your sleep — often without fully waking you — …
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