[Tanick]

I hope you don't mind me chipping in here as some things worried me above. Just thought I'd point out another symptom of this that isn't obvious.

Last year I ate something dodgy in France and picked up an horrific bug that wiped me out for 4 days and gave me diarrhoea for a month. After it went away I developed a chronic cough that sounded like I was on my way out. I went to the docs, who first said leave it for a couple of weeks, then referred me for a chest X-ray. All clear and the fought slowly went away but I started getting really blocked sinuses so went back to see what else it could be. Saw an older more experienced doc who thought maybe it was a gastric reflux problems so put me on a PPI - lansoprazole for 2 weeks. Everything cleared up within 4 days. Turns out the acid gas from my stomach was irritating all my airways.

I'm now cutting down on drinking, spicy food, all the fun things in life. I'm 44, my father died 5 years ago aged 68 from Oesophegal cancer. He had trouble swallowing, left it a couple of weeks to se if it cured itself and died 6 weeks to the day after seeing a doc. He'd lost so much weight from not being able to eat that they couldn't start chemo.

Get it checked out… I hope yours gets better ok.