HELLO . IM WONDERING IF ANY OF YOU LADIES HAVE FOUND THAT YOUR REFLUX IS WORSE AFTER A BUG ? I HAVE BEEN POORLY WITH A STOMACH / FLU BUG FOR THE PAST WEEK AND A HALF . A LOT OF THE SYMPTOMS ARE BETTER BUT MY APPETITE HASNT RETURNED AND WHEN I DO TRY AND EAT I GET REFLUX AND IT FEELS LIKE FOOD ISNT DIGESTING PROPERLY . OF COURSE THIS SENDS MY HEALTH ANXIETY INTO OVERDRIVE . WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME ? COULD IT BE SERIOUS ? WAS IT A BUG , EVEN THOUGH ALL THE SYMPTOMS MATCH THE FLU , INCLUDING THE MOST AWFUL BODY PAINS . IT DIDNT COME OUT WITH A COLD , BUT IT DID FEEL ON THE BRINK IF ONE AND MY EARS HAVE BEEN ACHING AT TIMES. THE THING IS NOW IVE GOOGLED THIS AND ITS GOT ME GOING AGAIN AS I HAVE REFLUX , WAS IT MY GALLBLADDER . I SPOKE TO MY DOCTOR ON TUESDAY AND HE SAID THAT IT ALL SOUNDS VIRAL AND THERE ARE A LOT IF NASTY , STRONG BUGS ABOUT AND IT HAS TO RUN ITS COURSE . THOUGHTS PLEASE
did yours start off with sore throat
It’s very easy, after a stomach bug, to have the gut flora to be disturbed. That can lead to a host of disgestive symptoms from entry to exit. Foods that we can normally have / tolerate when we are well tax the system when it is recuperating.
If you don’t mind me asking, how has the “exiting” been going? 
I would try a probiotic. A probiotic can deliver what’s called “competitive inhibition” which is the good bacteria will compete with and drive out the problematic bacteria and recolonize the entire GI tract. It can take a few days, but it can really work.
I have wicked health anxiety like you. And it is so hard to be patient and loving with the body when its doing its job. The anxiety almost does not allow me to be a person anymore.