Have you tried any home " remedies? Aloe vera juice or apple cider vinegar with honey and water or even taking pills at night rather than in a.m.! Do you do the acid free diet..I know I miss spaghetti and piazza!

Lave they done a scope to check tor inflammation? Good lick

Like Polly mentioned about taking reflux medication at night time.

I recently started this and it has helped. So now I am taking one losec tablet morning and one night and mylanta in between if needed.

Also invest in a bed wedge if you don't have one. I get the choking feeling and I can hardly swallow when that happens. Now I only got the bed wedge recently and when I was getting choked decided to use it. Helped so much! All the acid went back down.

The acid also burns my throat and I get dry mouth too which doesn't help. My voice changes on me a lot these days as the acid seems to be affecting my throat area more lately.

I too fear for my oesophagus but the thing Is a doctor may only be concerned about it if your throat is red and red further down. A bit of irritation is expected and is common when your going through a bad stage of reflux.

You could also have a barium swallow so the doctors can see what's going on when your using it when eating and drinking.

I hope you find some relief soon!

I think I was born with gerd. Really, my mom & grandma have told me alot about always having colic as a baby. As a teenager I was ok. As time went on, it started up & when I hit my 30's it came back full force. I ended up with an ulcerated esophagus & throwing up alot everyday. My esophagus & stomach burned so badly. After seeing quite a few gi drs. what turned out the best was sleeping in a recliner or using a bedrest wedge pillow (like they use in the hospital- bed, body, & bath store have them). A restricted diet of food & drink made a big difference. Definitely no smoking(at that time I smoked). No alcohol. Nothing acid & etc. Nexium helped tremendously. At night I will take some pepto bismol about 30 minutes before I go to bed to coat the esophagus & don't drink afterwards. The upper gi part has improved alot. Except they now say the end of my esophagus opens too slow when I eat. It is the lower gi that is giving me more problems now. Try it all. The sooner you find what helps, the better. As far as sleeping, I could never make it without my wedge pillow. All acid stays down.(just burns my stomach & colon up now. lol. I hope not.)

See so like from what ongoingcindy said, you can prevent damage or heal damage very well just via diet. Recently I changed my diet tremendously. I find that medications don't help or at least don't without the altered diet side of things.

I am keeping a food diary and am making note of the things that either burn my throat, give me instant reflux or stomach pain. I also note how severe and how long each effect lasts. Triggers for me may be different for you. If you are or do decide to keep a food diary it would be good to show it to your gi too.

Dear Beckay You are so young, But if you drink alcohol and if you smoke (which I don,t know) I drank for about 10 years and i got into aaa. Alcolhol can cause all that heart bujrn. and about your esophagus my daughter who died in 2003 from Lupus Her husband drank since he was your age and smoked he never got heart burn but stomack aches, WEll then he lost 20lbs did,nt even know it, then he noticed he was having alot of acid and food sticking. well he had 4th stage esophagiel cancer. From alcohol. that stuff will tear your stomack up. and mess it your bowels i used to drink I know. Horrible . I wish you lots of luck . when we abuse our bodies I guess we pay for it . hate it. and Drs. just give you all these Protonic meds. suspose to stop heartburn for 24 hrs. oh I got some of those , it hit me I started sweating , shakening I ran over to the pharmacist, and he said lots of people even get depressed from those things. I hope your stomack feels better soon. zzz