Burning at back of throat when sleeping at night

Hi there I still suffer this problem now and then and I am 12 years from surgery,one way is I take omerpresol medication morning and night take gaviscon after each meal and when you go to bed try it nothing to loose stay away from acid drinks good luck 

Thank you for the reply. I am already on 20mg of Esomeprazole PPI morning and night, which I presume is the same. It seems to only affect me at night.

1. Yes it’s the same, I also take creon because my stomach is not nr the pancreas which helps digestion if it gets too bad speak with your upper GI nurse

Have you tried taking all your PPI dose at night? My husband takes 40mg Pantoprazole at night which has helped this. Or possibly ask about increasing just the nighttime dose if you still need the morning dose. My husband takes gaviscon advance before sleeping too. 
Geraldine

I find that a couple of teaspoons of Greek yogurt help me with night time reflux ! 

Thanks Geraldine. I split my dose prior to my surgery when my reflux was at it's worse. Now I seem to have the reflux under control, its this new bile type of burn thats the issue. From what I've read it's different to acid reflux and largely unaffected by Gaviscon and PPI's. I'm doing a trial on the Sucralfate tablets by crushing them up. Not ideal but maybe something is better than nothing.

I've put a call into my GI team again, hopefully they can suggest something as my January follow-up has been cancelled and moved to March which is too long to wait to sort it out.

• Bile and acid reflux are the same you must not sleep on your right hand side I would like to talk to you about this operation but I can’t on this web

Acid reflux and bile reflux are not the same thing. Acid reflux involves stomach acid flowing back into the esophagus. Bile reflux is when digestive fluid flows backward from the small intestine into the stomach then up into the esophagus.

Thank you for the advice on not sleeping on my right side. I have found it to be worse when on my right. However I've since increased my incline further so now lying on my side is virtually impossible anyway as my body doesn't bend that way well. 

Hi again yes you’re right but they run along the same path if you cough up yellow it’s bile that could mean you’re spinckter has been damaged due to surgery and you will have to have a scope also you may end up having a few ulcers as I did recently 8 which were ulcerated, the drug creon breaks down fatty foods which also helps and have smaller amounts of food it takes a while to get used such a large surgery in more ways