Next Steps

Follow-up

For best results, follow the advice of your health care provider concerning medication and lifestyle.

• Let him or her know what you are doing about your reflux disease and how well it is working.
  
  
• Keep follow-up appointments faithfully. Your health care provider may want to adjust your treatment at preset intervals of time or decide to refer you to a specialist if initial therapy fails.
  
  
• He or she can help you only to the extent that you provide honest and timely feedback.

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GERD - Proton Pump Inhibitors

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Heartburn symptoms caused by GERD are usually relieved by drugs called proton pump inhibitors (Prilosec, Prevacid, Aciphex, Protonix, Nexium, Zegerid); however, proton pump inhibitors sometimes do not work well. If your symptoms were not relieved by treatment with proton pump inhibitors, can you please describe your GERD symptoms that did not improve? If you have other treatments that have been effective, please comment on those.

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