I had reflux for over 30 years...I tried every medicine known to man. Even plain baking soda (which will screw up your "electrical" system if you use it too much) After all the prilosecs, zantacs, pepcids, previcids, tums, rolaids, pepto bismol...I finally had enough.....
It would get so bad I thought I was having heart attacks at times. It was ALL THE TIME!! I couldn't sleep and lived off of prescription medicines for a few years. They were only band aids.....no matter what pill I took, I still had to take more when they wore off.
Finally after some test I've had stomach surgery and have had "heartburn" only two or three times in a year and a half....A true life changing experience for me
A MIRACLE for people who suffer from heartburn constantly....
The other problem is the longer you have it the more damage it does to your esopogus.....
They had to stuff a tube down my throat that was hooked up to a computer worn to my hip for 24 hours. Everytime I felt heartburn I was to push a button so the computer would take a ph rating in my stomach. It was uncomfortable for a day but if I wasn't going to get heartburn again, I'd go through ANYTHING. So here was my problem....I only hit the button 10 times over the the 24 hours...with 1 major attack while sleeping....comes to find out...I had over 100 acid attacks NOT 10....you get so used to the pain that you don't realize how many you have which can destroy your insides. The major attack lasted for 27 minutes!!!
Youve got to start with a Visit to your doctor...they will prescribe Previcid or something like that to see how it goes...I thought these were miracle drugs but they wear off and you keep having to take them every day for the rest of your life??? eventually these started not to work as good so they would switch to another pill that did the same thing.
ask the doc for an upper GI if this has been going on for a long time.
didn't you post this same topic about a year ago???? If that was you, youve got heartburn bad enough to warrent tests.....ASK THE DOCTOR....it all starts there!!!
My surgery was all done by scopes threw my belly...very small scars (I'm hairy so who cares) and I've NEVER FELT BETTER!!!! if I haven't made it clear, ASK YOUR DOCTOR!!! Call him NOW and make an appointment, you will not regret it.
Good luck
let me know if you have further questions and oh yea, CALL YOUR DOCTOR