Reflux at night — what helped you

Started 6 November 2025 · 16 replies · 128 hearts · read 2.5k times

OllieCardiff, UK · 6 November 2025

8 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Reflux at night — what helped you

Long one, sorry. I have been chewing on this for a fortnight.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

18me too 8

SindriReykjavík, IS

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

StefanZurich, CH

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

NellaUtrecht, NL

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

TavishIsle of Skye, UK

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

Obi OEnugu, NG

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

BramleyBath, UK

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

OndineLausanne, CH

#10

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

BlueStroud, UK

#11

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

#12

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

5me too 8

NualaArmagh, NI

#13

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

KateBelfast, NI

#14

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#15

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

16me too 4

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#16

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.