Pretty well nothing. Behaviour modification -- lots of that. I had no idea coffee was such a big part of my life. Specific tummy drugs? Just a couple of Tums and a glass of water before sleeping. It's been less than a week. The doc was more interested in my nose -- I've always had problems breathing through my nose; forty years old and only now do I find out my septum is deformed resulting in my left nostril being kind of small. It was only the increasing pain in my throat that finally taught me how to unconsciously breathe through my nose while sleeping -- a new behaviour which really helped my throat cope with the reflux for a several extra months.

Now I'm sleeping on an inclined bed (head propped up about six inches) which keeps stomach acids in my stomach, and POW! right away I'm waking up breathing through my mouth every other morning.
Argh! I *think* my throat is getting better. I've found myself singing when doing chores again. But maybe it's just spring. My throat never got consistently bad enough that I couldn't sing; it just took the joy out of singing.

I've got a water-based misting nose-spray and an anti-allergy nose-spray, both of which I haven't started using yet. Food changes were enough for the first week. Food changes are TOUGH. I'm even supposed to reduce tomatoes and citrus as much as possible. Woh.

My main point in posting was: to let people know that acid reflux could get hit their throats without being obvious about it. And one other thing: when your throat and voice box get sore, the soreness can soon radiate out, because the muscles around it tense up and themselves eventually get sore. Seems obvious in hindsight, but I started to really worry when my the soreness seemed to be spreading out right over to my shoulder...

My own pet theory now is: I drank SO much water to cope with dry-throat due to breathing through my mouth that I filled my stomach too much, too often, which weakened the valve at the top of my stomach's ability to hold down the contents, which washed up my esophagus occasionally, but which were very weak because of all the water...oh heck...just make sure you see a doctor if throat problems persist over a couple of months. Don't wait a year and a half like me.