ok so i’ve had gerd for a few weeks now i ended up in the ER with chest pains. they did lab work urine test xrays 2 ekgs they think it’s not my heart but Gerd that showed up in an upper gi. now they are sending me too a gastroenterologist i guess a specialist for acid reflux disease. i was curious if anyone has ever been too one and what test might they do if any? what type of questions do they ask?

I hope this gets some doctors attention. I am only here as a last resort. I have done everything the docs said to do and still no answers. It started with 3-4months of chronic stomach acid. Stomach bloating like I was pregnant.Then I started having muscles spasms in my left chest muscle-then woke up with lack of oxygen and started having an awake seizure-had them for about 2wks everynight while at rest. Lots of dizzyness too. Hard to breathe after eating also. Docs said it was not the heart and not related to stomach issues.Did all heart tests,endoscopy showed esophogus being eaten away some.Nexium helped a lot with acid and problems lessened. Seems that when I eat something to upset my stomach I get arm numbness and sometimes pain in gallbladder. Gallbladder scans were are negitive including bloodwork btw.
Can a hiatal hernia or Gerd cause these crazy awake seizures and numbness? Thanks so much.
I also have to take digestive enzymes that an herbalist gave me. If I don’t take them my stomach still swells up. BTW I am 32 m and in good shape.

I’ve been having a little bit of pain in my chest and in my back the past two days. The pain is between my shoulders, and down a little from that area. It’s not a bad pain, but I have anxiety so I always over think. I have GERD so I know I sometimes feel symptoms from that. Does anyone know what this could be? I had also went to the doctor a few weeks ago so I had been checked out.

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I did. I was severely criticized because they thought I was feeding this to my husband and kids. At one time I made a roughed out menu, for myself only, for the week. My husband and children did not eat this menu. I never set tuna salad sandwiches in front of them, not once. They would not have eaten them. My food cost less than theirs. I prepared what they liked within our budget, They ate a healthful, varied diet.. I enjoyed fitting into my clothes. I liked the way I looked. It is beyond rude to tell someone if they would get fat, they would look better, especially if they themselves are ugly as sin, are not pretty nor handsome themselves. I would rather be healthy than pretty. If someone does not like the way I look, they can go where they do not need to look at me I liked the way I looked and felt when I was a normal weight of 135. I never knew of anyone on earth who was forced to get fat, or they tried to force them to because someone did not like the way they looked. What audacity. In my case they were looking for a perfect diet pill, through me, and I weighed five lbs less than she.. My diet, or my menu, never caused anyone problems, ever, not financially, not socially, not in any way.That is it. I do not and will never
weigh what someone else wants me to voluntarily.. If I were married and he said to gain or lose because I was not pretty, we would divorce.

At one time, I had severe dietary problems, WW helped me a lot.
I have a history of ulcers. I have gerd at times and a spastic colon, hernia, blah blah. Stress is a factor, huge factor. I have severe stress, unrelenting.

I have seen very very few truly beautiful people in my life. I never made fun of my husband’s physical appearance, nor did I ever make fun of anyone else over their weight… NEVER DID. I was thin as a child. I put on about ten lbs about age 11, and then I was thin in high school. Maximum weight in high school was 137. It is a matter of personal choice. There is no perfect weight or body type.

It is as simple as if you do not like the way someone looks, leave them alone, someone else might. You cannot possibly speak for the entire world. I am grossly overweight now. I look worse than I ever looked, and worse than I have ever felt in my life. My unhappiness is not all due to weight. . I have many GI problems. I do not really care anymore. I am not ever going to have what I call a normal life.. I do not have the money to go to WW. WW never did anything but good for me. I have a horrible feeling someone sued them? Why? I loved the meetings. I had no problems with the program ever.
Some creep here took exception to my weight, wanted me to get fat, thin to see which they preferred.
He ,himself was ugly as sin. I have no idea how he married if looks had anything to do with it.
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The photos of me making horrible faces were one…when I was very pg and not on any sort of diet, and not premenstrual…being harassed endlessly by my husband. The other, I was not pg, same reason. only I had been ankle deep in mud, picking corn, shucking corn, hair strongly, makeup running and he was taking pictures.

My weight is my business. I will not see 137 again. That makes them very happy, I am sure. I will probably never weigh l50 again. That is all that matters to them, that I am grossly obese, feel like crud, and cannot get out and do anything because I do not feel well at all. I am not depressed.
If you walk up to someone and make fun of them due to their not being what you call attractive, you are pretty sick and rude. Even if they remind you of someone they dislike or fear, you need to be careful what you way.

Yes. I always liked style and fashion, pretty clothes….the ideal was not Wal-Mart. I want no new clothes. Nothing looks good. I hate shopping for clothes when I am grossly obese, nothing looks good. Nothing. It is not body dysmorphia. I was a normal wt all my life and I would not marry or date anyone or be friends with anyone who wanted me to be obese, or to stay grossly obese. My weight is my business. I will wear the clothes I have until I die or they wear out, because I am not wasting money on anything but underwear when they look like absolute crud as does my face and the rest of my body. I don’t want to hear it. Keep the criticism and the other to yourself. I value the opinion of people I know and trust, unless asked for. I know I am overweight and not attractive.
edit…I look worse than I ever looked, and feel worse than I ever felt..
edit..Within our budget, I prepared a healthful and varied diet for them. paragraph. Oh well.
edit…I look worse than I ever looked, and feel worse than I ever felt..
edit..Within our budget, I prepared a healthful and varied diet for them. paragraph. Oh well.

I’ve been feeling like a have a hair in my mouth and stuck in the back of my throat for over 2 weeks now. It makes me wanna gag all the time. No matter how many times I rinse my mouth during the day, brush my teeth, use mouthwash, drink cups and cups of water…the sensation won’t go away! This isn’t the first time I felt this, it happened to me 3 or 4 times before in the past year and I don’t understand why. And I am CERTAIN it is not really a hair! Can anyone please explain to me the cause of this, why I’m getting this feeling and if there is anything I can or should do to help solve this problem because it isn’t fun living like this :’(

I’ve been to a general family doctor, got referred to a pulmonary specialist, and then an ear, nose, and throat doctor. They said everything looks normal. He even looked down my throat using a scope. He believed it was acid reflux, which is strange because I’ve never noticed any problems with my digestion or felt any heartburn. However, I listened to the advice of the doc and took Prevacid for the 14-day treatment. No positive results, I’m still feeling the same :’(

Is this a common or rare problem, are there any others who feel the same? And how have you dealt with it? Have you gone to the doc and did they diagnose your prob?

I’ve read that antacids have a risk of overdose. I have extremely bad GERD and have found that taking calcium carbonate supplements are effective at treating. Sometimes I wind up taking an extra couple chewable tablets than recommenced (containing only calcium carbonate) and was wondering if this really is posing a risk to my health, or if, like most other medications, in practicality a few extra wont do damage.
I am currently also taking 40mg protonix (proton pump inhibitor) daily

Okay, for the past 3 or 4 days, my stomach has been hurting after I eat stuff. I think it’s heartburn, but even when I eat fruit and things that don’t cause heartburn, my stomach still hurts! It’s like a sick/burning feeling. This has never lasted this long before. I used to eat A LOT of spicy stuff in the past…maybe it’s finally catching up with me.

And even if I drink stuff my stomach hurts! And I’ve been getting these really bad headaches lately, too. What the heck?!

I’m 14 by the way….

Why is this stuff happening?

Is it completely different from acid reflux? I feel kinda crappy this afternoon, sort of like chest pains right in the center of my chest, but not sure if that’s what heartburn feels like.
Ahh, then this probably isn’t heartburn. Thanks!