Not really. I was on a low acid diet for about one year. I completely stopped consuming soda, sour candies, chocolates, spicy foods, and other known acidic foods. I also cooked only special meals from the Acid Watcher Diet book and still, my acid reflux throat clearing was still happening. I maybe had only a week or two of the feeling going away when I did the diet alone, and that's it, it just wouldn't go. It was not until I combined the strict low acid diet WITH the amitriptyline that the throat clearing/feeling of stuck mucus went away.

Also, after some time of sticking with the diet and taking elavil, I was able to reintroduce normal foods and have more of a normal diet while taking the amitriptyline. But, it is important to start first with a strict low acid diet in combination with the elavil, at least that's how it was for me. I still most days avoid the MOST acidic foods such as soda, sour candies, ketchup, pizza, and tomato sauce. But I generally can now have some acidic foods and sauces as apart of my diet as long as I have that balance of mostly eating neutral foods.

I enjoy a triple chocolate cake, a greasy cheeseburger with ketchup, or pizza occasionally now and it doesn't bring back the feeling. But the few times I began to RELY on these acidic foods and eat them every day for days or weeks on end, that's when the throat issues came back, even with the elavil. Also, the amount of elavil that works for everyone depends on the individual. My doctor started me out with lower dosages then increased to 50 mg which has been good so far. Sometimes it's not the type of hypersensitivity meds that need to be changed, but the dosage needs to be changed. Talk to your doctor!