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From: april
Remote Name: 66.114.79.71
Date: 09/16/02
Time: 04:01:32 PM
Hello to everyone! It has been some time now that I am following up with this site, and so far, it has helped me somewhat deal with my problems. Everyone here has had or still has the same sypmtoms as I still have. Maybe I am writing this, just to get some things off my head, or to actually have some one else to talk to that might actually know what I am going through with here. SO here goes: It has been 2.5 years now that I am suffering from hiatal hernia/gerd. I was diagonsed last year after I had an upperendoscopy performed by my GI. Afterwhich I was prescribed nexium. I have tried basically every medicine after that, and nothing seems to help. Perhaps it is because I was not on a daily basis with all these medications. I hate taking medicine on a daily basis, so therefore I took it only when pain came. I was sometimes sypmtom free for 2-3 months, with occasional mild heartburn once in a while, but never beyond 1 day of pain that I would encounter. Now however, it has been almost 4 days, and continous pain. I am taking prevacid, zantac, tums, and it goes away for a little while but still manages to come back. stres? like everyone, I have stress, but even on the days where I feel mentally fine, it strikes again. the pain always radiates to the back, down the left shoulder. It feels as if someone is sitting on top of me. I have shortness of breath at times. I have been to the ER twice in the last year, once of shortness of breath and the later, for dizziness. Everything checked out fine. They did an ECG, echocardio, and everything seemed fine. I am scheduled to do a stress test, only to rule out in my mind that my heart is ok. Sometimes, yes I do drink pepsi,or coke, but it doesn;t bother me. then I have a salad that contains 1 slice of tomatoe, and boom! it happens again. along with this, I have anxiety. I mean when the sypmtoms occur, I panic, and start to think oh my god what is happening, I am sure that i have a disease. social aspect of it stinks, because you are so consumed with all your sypmtoms, that i am afraid to go and have dinner out, worrying whether or not I will have another episode of gerd. I dont know what to do next. Can someone please offer me any hope, or just share your story with mine. sypmtoms same? feelings same? please help april