We can prescribe 2 different types of medicines if we're confident that you have acid reflux. They both reduce the acid levels of your stomach but work in slightly different ways. One group is called proton pump inhibitors (PPI) and the other is called H2 blockers (H2B).
The exact medicine we'll give you depends on everything we learn about you and what medicines you've tried before. If the first medicine we give you doesn't control your symptoms then we can normally either increase the dose of the same medicine or switch you to a different medicine. Overall our goal is to find the lowest effective dose of the right medicine that will keep your symptoms under control.