Posted By Fox (Texas) on 12/16/2016

About a year ago, she was diagnosed with GERD cough. She was coughing constantly at night. The nurse practitioner she saw put her on Prilosec for 2 weeks and said it would resolve itself. The food regurgitation resolved, but the cough still remains and is worse at night making it difficult to get a good night's sleep for both of us. On top of that, several months ago she's started having a thick white foamy mucus in her throat and almost constant water brash. The water brash is worse when sleeping, even upright; she'll wake up with the pillow and her shirt covered in saliva. She clears her throat constantly at night and has to wake up to get rid of the mucus. Her lungs often sound crackly. To me, this sounds like LPR.

She's changed her diet to avoid acidic foods and sleeps on a wedge pillow. She takes enzymes at each meal. The Prilosec helped at the time before the mucus/water brash developed. She is overweight, and we are slowly working on getting her weight down. We just need to figure out how to resolve the mucus and water brash.

I'm just not sure how to proceed.

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