Help.. is this GERD?

I have off and on nausea, i have to vomit all the time, but all that ever comes up is phlegm and my nose gets all runny. It's especially bad after i get up in the morning, makes it hard to sleep, always waking up wanting to throw up. It feels like I have a lot of spit before i have to throw up. It doesn't feel like my stomach is digesting anything normally, always bubbly. Hard to get food down, eating all soft foods, but losing weight and feel weak all the time. Often after I vomit, have huge burp. usually have lots of burps during the day not around eating or anything. been to the doctor, she wasn't sure what it was, but gave me protonix, so far been on since friday, haven't been to work in two weeks, makes it impossible to function. Anyone else have symptoms like this? also have a lot of anxiety, and feel heart beat fast sometimes, and a little light headedness also. I'm also really anxious about not being able to go back to work which also makes it really hard to sleep or enjoy when i'm not feeling as bad. I feel better in the afternoons for a few hours, but other than that i can't function. Please help me.

Thanks for the encouragement. The runny nose is only i think due to the vomiting reaction- nose isn't runny any other time. I feel good in the afternoon, and start to think it's getting better, but evenings are worse, and when i wake up in the morning i have so much spit to get rid of, so much that it makes me throw up a few times just to get it out and then i don't feel better until like 2 or so.

Thank you for the advice.. i think the anxiety has a huge part to do with all of it. It's making everything worse, and the more sick i am the more anxiety i have and round and round it goes. I'm going back to my doctor this week if i can, but i did get talk to my uncle who's a doctor and he did not seem highly concerned about the vomiting, i think he think it has to do with anxiety also. the vomiting probably would be more of concern if i was throwing up food. Thanks so much, and will continue to take my protonix and try and relax. That's all i can do for now, right?

No, I don't have an eating disorder, though always had a very nervous stomach. I did make an appointment with a therapist, hopefully will reduce some of my anxiety. So i don't really think i'm getting much better, but am learning to function more. Still dry heaving phlegm in the morning, but i seem to feel better after that. One thing that I'm having a lot of trouble with though, is that i wake up in the middle of the night, about 2 am, with stomach pains, and i toss and turn all night long. finally by about six or so i have to get up, and will feel better after several hours. but then am sooo tired because i'm not getting any sleep. any ideas?

Before anything else you need to see a GI specialist and have some tests done. When you vomit you lose electrolytes which can cause many of your symptoms. Your uncle's opinion doesn't count.

I had many of the same symptoms and was diagnosed with GERD after an endoscopy found inflammation in the esophagus. No one did a 24 hour acid monitoring to see if I did have an acid problem.

I started to lose weight and had to sleep sitting up or I would wake coughing because I had inhaled dinner. The heartburn was extremely painful but did respond to antacids and milk but not ppis. Very often I would throw up what I had eaten the day before. Obviously I was not digesting food.

Went to a new GI doc last April and he ran a battery of tests. Turns out I didn't have GERD. In fact my stomach acid levels were normal and I had no reflux. I had a disease called achalasia. The LES was closing so what I ate had to sit a while in my esophagus before it could get into the stomach. Sometimes even saliva couldn't get through and I would cough it up. At times I had food sitting in my esophagus for over a day fermenting and that was causing the heartburn and vomiting.

I saw the surgeon in May and had my surgery in June. I was close to end stage achalasia and losing my esophagus altogether because it was so enlarged. I was lucky to have caught it when I did. Now no more regurgitation, no more heartburn, no more drugs. My GI tract is back to normal. See a GI doc and ask for a battery of tests including an endoscopy, barium swallow, 24 hour acid monitoring and manometry.