Is this acid reflux or heartburn or something else? -
07-19-2009, 09:31 PM
I get heartburn everyday, but for the past three days I've had heartburn with intense discomfort. I woke up not too long ago and immediately had heartburn, which is odd.
The discomfort is bad but it's so hard to describe. It's in the middle of my stomach (I think) and it sometimes goes to the middle of my chest and throat. I also get gurgling noises in my chest/stomach and if I take a deep breath I get the weird pain/discomfort. Or if I bend down just a little. It also starts to hurt if I hiccup, but they're not loud hiccups, they're kind of internal hiccups if that makes sense.
Acid reflux runs in my family and my uncle died from esophageal cancer awhile ago, so I'm kind of nervous.
I plan on going to the doctors tomorrow if this doesn't get better, but in the meantime I'd like advice on what you THINK it sounds like.
Sorry if I was vague or didn't make sense, like I said, it's hard to describe.
Thanks.
One more thing-I've tries Tums, they do NOT help.
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