Need some help

First time poster. I recently have had severe off / on burning in chest, throat, and mouth. I first was taking over the counter anti acids with minimal results. The condition continued, so I saw my doctor, and he quickly diagnosed me with gerd, and I'm taking 1 40mg nexium a day. The condition seems to be somewhat better, but still have mild symptoms, off, and on. My question is, if this is gerd, am I not being patient enough after 10 day's on nexium? How long is this going to take, if ever to get resolved. The doctor gave me 20 samples of this nexium, so I'm going to run out soon. I did take two yesterday, as it was bad, and is this a bad thing?, taking two? I'm going to have to call the doctor's to have more prescribed, I assume, and this can be expensive medication? I have no insurance. Not Good! Miserable before Christmas! I have enormous stress being my elderly mothers caretaker for many years, and I'm very very unhappy, and I wonder if this can be causing this as well...No answers, and so many problems. I have two old old compression fractures in the spine, and now at 50 this is causing me problems in my chest as well with these nerves being compressed. I don't know if all these are related, or seperate problems all by themselves, and have no insurance to go find out. I'm stuck in neutral, an waiting to hear..Go to the emergency room, but they'll only do so much.

Hello, Yeah there is a box with the sample nexium's that has a savings card on it. It say's I pay only $18 a month, so that would work, if true.

I worry about my symptoms, as I have a history of chest pains, but passed the stress Plus test a few years ago, and I guess they seem to think those are being caused by the compression fractures. I've had the chest pains on / off for years, and years, and only take Vicodin for pain to reduce the back pain, which in turn helps the chest pain, but then throw in these burning type feelings everywhere, I start to wonder if I have Angina.