Has anyone ever heard of having GERD withOUT heartburn ?
Friday, November 27th, 2009 at
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YES!
Constant regurgitation can be caused by spasms or abnormalities in your cardiac sphincter (the little doughnut muscle keeping food in at the top of your stomache), or by strictures in your esophagus (tube to your stomache).
It can also be caused by growths or weirdness outside your esophagus leaning on it, or by varicous veins in there.
Usually they do a barium swallow to see if it is a stricture or impingement. That can bee seen that way. If they do not find anything then they do an endoscope (smile, go to sleep and swallow the camera).
It is devilishly difficult to figure out if it is a spasm, or too high muscle tone in the sphincter itself.
It is pretty easy to fix a stricture by stretching it. The stretch job lasts a few years, i did it and was happy I did.
Other fixes vary.
No. I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it’s "one for the books" if the person doesn’t.