I never heard of gerd before yesterday but perhaps I have it or worse . It's happened several times awaken middle night and my stomouch attacked - bloating and squelching . Helps to stand up and after time eases although today is not dissapearimg altogether as previous times .
Iv iv also had other symtoms and this stomouch is the latest in a list
throat closing up ( maybe especially after spicy food )
lung infection for four weeks ( when that finished the stomouch started )
tingles all over / cramp / jabbing one off pains
had blood tests - clear
had lung X-ray just before the infection and was clear
ideas ?
GERD + autoimmune problem? See a gastroenterologist and a rheumatologist. I have both and what you describe I have had/ still have. On meds for autoimmune . For GERD, I was advised to the usual dietary changes etc
Thanks
do you recall how or why it started and are you kind of fixed now ?
You had all the symtoms I describe ?
With autoimmune you take meds to control it, so kinda fixed as long as I take the meds. With reflux we cant take ppis forever so has to be managed with all the dietary and life style changes ( eat smaller quantities, avoid tight clothing around stomach area, no meals 3 hours before bedtime, raise your bed or head (wedge pillow) by 7 inches etc. Don't know y it all started all I know is that it started with bad fall on my back followed by swollen lymph glands, next came GERD + Barretts Esophagus,etc , then pityriases roscea (skin condition without a known cause and steroids was the treatment) , next came diagnosis of autoimmune.. All within a space of 4 months ( 3 years ago)