Sensitive stomach

Yes I have the same issue. I find the only thing that helps is a bland diet and acid suppression. My diet has become very limited as so many foods now set it off. I'd recommend keeping a food diary because there are probably some innocent seeming things in your diet that are causing it. For example things like cucumber and melon give me horrific pains but it took me ages to figure it out because I never ate a lot of them or often. Even white rice givres me problems.

When I stick to a plain safe diet I don't get many issues with my stomach, its all about finding out what your unsafe foods are, and the are different for everyone so the food diary is the only way to figure it out really.

Are you on PPIs? I find autogenic good for stress, it can increase the acid production of the stomach so when you're stressed try taking antacids regularly before your stomach starts feeling off

Wow, hmm well its probably not an acid issue then. Perhaps you have occasional bile reflux into the stomach, and this causes a short term bout of gastritis at times. It may feel like it only lasts a few days but could still be inflamed its just symptomless while on the PPIs. Have you ever tried Carafate?

There is a supplement called PepzinGI too you might find that helpful for protecting the stomach lining.

You sound just like me actually, I know your pain I'm going through exactly the same thing. I'm scared to eat anything really because I react to so much. Cereal is usually one of my only safe foods too! The looks I get at work because I eat about 4 bowls a day at times. And I've gone through periods of weeks basically living off it and never felt better! At the moment I'm having so many problems because I have IBs, GERD and stomach issues and eating one thing good for one usually is not good for the other! I'm living off potatoes at the moment pretty much because my nausea is a problem but it isn't good for the heartburn really and gives me really bad IBS issues. I have these horrible pains under my ribs from the IBS because of all the potatoes but its much preferable to the nausea!

I think the Carafate or pepzin gi if taken before you go to bed should help a lot with the morning nausea, it helped with mine.

I wish I could have my cereal at the moment but for some reason even that's not safe for me ATM, I think the sugar gives me problems.

I've heard a few people say align was really good, I take probiotic but not tried align as its so expensive but may give it a go.

I thought antispasmodics where a big no-no for GERD?

I've not tried buscopan in fact I don't take anything for IBS as I only recently realised that I have it, I always attributed the pain to my stomach and gastritis but now realise it's the bends in my colon that are where the pain is and thats why none of the stomach remedies or PPIs have got rid of it. I take cocodamol for the pain when its bad which takes the edge off. I took some milk thistle a couple of days ago to help the reflux, big mistake! It definitely helped the reflux but the IBS pain was horrid, I think anything that stimulates my colon causes me pain at the moment. Am trying some probiotics as they have helped in the past and think I will try my cereal diet again and hope it doesn't make me nauseous this time.

If you can't get Carafate try the pepzin Gi I found it much better anyway. Take 2 capsules before bed and if needed two during the day. For anxiety I do relaxation tapes which really help and abbreviated version which I can do for 5 minutes in the toilet at work or something if I notice myself getting really tense

I've had the starving but sick feeling so many times too, the only way I deal with it is to force down a couple of mouthfuls of food and then wait and it usually subsides in 5-10 minutes then I can finish the meal. My stomach really doesn't like being empty so I avoid it where I can.

Its a supplement you can buy on amazon, dont worry although the name is similar to Pepsin it isn't an acid supplement or anything.

Yes it's a coating agent, much better than Gaviscon. Just make sure not to take it around the same time as your Nexium, I find just before bed works best