Hi Squarely, if you read in the gastritis support group board under the topic "Tummy Issues" you can read two people who are having the pain your describing. I've seen this several times on the gastritis board.

I think if your worried you should call your doctor since none of us should try and tell someone with chest pains what to do.

Let us know what you do. Hugs.

It is common when you have a very inflamed esophagus, you can feel in in your back for sure.

Work on changing your diet in a big way and anxiety if you have it, to reduce your symptoms

To 22 Lynn,I can't seem to find that went gastritis but can't find tummy trouble,

was in the ER recently due to chest pain which I and the nurse adviser line thought was a heart attack. I'd never felt anything like that before, it was like my heart was being squeezed to death and I had to stretch up tall in order to get a breath and then I got nauseous. I couldn't believe I was having a heart attack but I was scared so the nurse advisor stayed on the phone with me encouraging me to call 911. I was embarrassed to call 911 just in case it wasn't a heart attack so I was able to get her off the line and drive myself the 45 minutes to the ER. I realized when I got there that it wasn't a wise decision because I didn't get there until 3:30 am and there wasn't anyone else on our country roads at that time of the morning. To top it all off my cell phone wasnt working when I pulled over to try to call my daughter and inform her of what was happening and tell her I loved her while I was on my way - just in case. It turned out to be a horrible and painful episode of GERD. After 4 hours in the ER I drove home and sat down to relax with the AARP magazine and inside was an article on heart attacks and how GERD can feel like one because the esophagus is right behind the heart! It said that in the case of a heart attack you need to get to the ER within 1/2 hour to ensure the best outcome so I learned my lesson just by reading that magazine. It also said "Get off the Internet and call 911"....LOL, chew and swallow a regular uncoated 325 milligram aspirin (not a baby aspirin), unlock the doors, rest and call someone to come over and wait with you.......SO DON'T TAKE ANY CHANCES.

Look up: "Why in the Morning" posted on 5/5. She's talking about the stomach and how it's called the second brain. That sure was interesting and it might help you with some answers. I looked at it because I'm having that strange chest pain right now on the right side of my heart and I'm sitting up and have only had cereal and milk. I noticed this twice before recently but it happened when I was laying down watching TV. I'll mention it to my doctor on my next visit. It doesn't go into my back though and I since I've had the upper endoscopy in May I'm hoping there's nothing significantly wrong.

Hello all- I am new here and was researching some GERD issues and came across this post. My son has a disease called achalasia and it effects the esophagus( basically it closes up and stops working) He suffrs with severe esophageal spasms. Severe pain in chest . Over the past years of this disease he was hospitilized due to the pain and finally after he was given so much pain medicine to get it under control, he almost stopped breathing! At age 12 when all this began, he was given everything from diuladid,morphine,lortab, the list goes on.NOTHING WORKED! The esophagus is like the heart and not many medicines yet to work that type of muscle. My son is 24 now and still suffers severe spasms. Sometimes he passes out from them. The only thing that use to work is called nifidiphine . Try chugging water as soon as you feel it or eat a bananna. This is the only thing that helps sometimes. Even the hospitals have told us they cant do nothing for him so he suffers with it. Even his specialist in 2 diffrent states where he had surgeries said esophageal spasms is a hard one to treat .