GERD - heartburn

I started having weird gerd symptoms back in January. I tried a bunch of different meds and nothing worked. Then I had an obstruction and wound up in the hospital, lots of different meds and everything settled down. It finally went away and it's now back again for the last few weeks. I think mine has to do with a partial obstruction and things just aren't flowing smoothly through me. I find that the only thing that really helps me is chewing gum. Weird.

isergodur, I have both reflux and gastritis and there are times when the reflux gets worse even though I haven't changed my diet, etc.  I used to have to change PPIs every year or so or they stopped working, but I've been on Protonix for quite a while now and just have to bump it up to twice a day for a while when it starts getting really bad.  Not sure why it does it, but it usually calms itself back down.  It's been bad lately, but I'm also having a lot of stomach spasms right now as well, so we have an endoscopy scheduled for next month.