Dear all
Thanks for this post. i had posted about post radiation reflux earlier today.
I had started with reflux the day of my first chemo, increased my omeprazole to lansaprole during taxotere and came off soon after chemo only to restart during rads. I too have restricted my diet finding alcohol, fatty foods etc are difficult. Also experienced the coughing at night.
CT scan to rule out lung mets as a cause of coughing showed oesophageal thickening and a medical oncologist has refered me to a gastroenterologist. gastroenterolgist thinks my problems are related to post radiation damage and increased my omeprazole to 40mg twice a day and introduced dromperidone with each meal. His rationale for both drugs was that omeprazole reduces the acid secretion in the stomach but gastric juices (also acid ) are still produced. He has added domperidone to increase the speed that the food passes through the gut and reducing the risk of gastric juice reflux. He also said that dromperidone may take 4 -6 weeks to take maximum effect.
hope this is of some use to others.
Crispy
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