Click on Home for more heartburn information.
Other message boards can be viewed at: Message Boards
Post new questions on the New Message Board
[ Contents | Search | Next | Previous | Up ] This is a Read Only archive.
From: Judy to Werner
Date: 4/29/00
Time: 4:10:31 AM
Remote Name: 209.239.214.238
I think I gave a confused kind of roundabout answer -- more a question, really. I'm just feeling my way around this, too -- but it seems to me people like us would benefit from going to both kinds of doctors. An ENT diagnosed me, when I went to him with a red throat last February. Steaming and other mild measures didn't help, so he referred me to a GI and said I should have a 24-hour reflux-measuring test. Interestingly, neither the first GI I saw, immediately afterwards, nor the second, suggested that. The first immediately put me on Prilosec and then Aciphex and then when I developed allergies to them, said, "Let's schedule an endoscopy." He knew about the main symptoms being in the throat area. I didn't go back to him and just saw another one. I asked him about my throat and his only answer was take the medicine. I re-called the ENT and he suggested we should really do a throat scope, which I scheduled. When I go there, I'm going to ask him what other tests I should really have. I don't think that some Gerd patients only go to ENT's, though, because ENT's can't measure reflux, for instance. I myself was also wondering what kind of doctor performs a bronchial endoscopy to see if there's any damage to the lungs.