Oh my goodness!!!!!!! My heart is banging in my chest and have low pressure. I have this and suffer immensely. Few months back I was getting anxiety and fear in excess. Has anyone on this list tried niacin or Niaspin to combat bile reflux? Biopsy's came back with chronic gastritis. Same for me - the bile salt diarrhea is gone and I'm sure the Questran is the cause. Ambulatory pH monitoring. It took time to adjust and only could stand certain food. Particularly if you also have to burp a lot and feel bloated there's a good chance you might have this. Living with this condition feels like a painful nightmare. I decided to switch meds from dexilant to omeprazole. I still get it, but no where near as bad. PPIs are great for acid reflux, but can make bile reflux worse. Now I no longer have the organ to store digestive fluids from my liver. The previous Doctor diagnosed me with Chron's disease which I knew was not possible because I'm always constipated but I was on a 6 month course of Cortisone and picked up a lot of weight. I know what you're going through and i certainly want to believe - there must be way to deal with this. Funny our FDA approves Reglan, that has horrible side effects, but not Motilium that actually, you know, helps our disorder. Fass R. Approach to refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease in adults. I have not dropped weight, in fact i am heavier then i ever have been. Be prepared to occasionally have lots of blood work done as well. They didn't come out and say I had bile reflux disease, only that I had bile in my stomach that could have been caused from the removal of my gallbladder. Just my family believes me because they see me eating. I am not a big person and I lost 13 lbs which put me down to 112 lbs. I went to numerous Doctors and Specialists and no help. It is so out of control that is has caused my esophagus to not open properly from the burning not being controlled. Look on FodMap it explains it well. I am on a medication called Nexium and hoping it works. Your doctor will then prescribe medications to contain and lessen the symptoms. Edyd Medina im 22 and got diagnosed with bile reflux gastritis in 2013 im drinking alkohol, smoking weed sometimes but its not affect me so much. Oh and btw I failed to mention I had been put on drugs from Reglan all the way to Famotidine. Bile is an important agent that aids in digestion. Talking to my doctor again, we discovered there really wasn't an issue with my gallbladder but that I had bad bacteria in my gut. I was diagnosed with Bile Reflux in January. The presence of bile is a regular finding by gastroscopy in persons with stomach inflammation-gastritis, ulcers, after gallbladder surgery, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). 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