Originally Posted by Barefootsies

True.

What was sort of weird about this round of acid reflux was that it was much different than I had in the past. I mean, the acid reflux I had a number of years ago was the traditional symptoms so you could easily treat it with OTC. However, this time around it was a bit more sneaky as it was giving me sinus infections and that crud in my throat, the vocal chords seizing up and such. I was thinking that was sleep apnea or alike, but it turned out that the root cause was the reflux. Once treated properly, all of those various ailments went away.

If anything, it was a lesson that reinforced that you insist on seeing a specialist if your primary DR can't get the shit right in a couple of visits. There is no need to spend years of pills and haphazard guesswork when a specialist can nail down the source of the problem in an office visit as they tend to spend a lot more time asking questions and doing the work to isolate the true source.

It's obviously a lot less time consuming and cheaper whether you have insurance or not.