does gerd cause shoulder blade pain? Your experience with this please

I have gerd and 2 years ago this site really helped me out by explaining things. This past year I went off of PPI's because I felt better and heard the meds could have side effects. This time around, i didn't have the acid reflu so much but had pain in right side under rib age for about 4 weeks. I also get some scapular pain but not sure if the two are related. 3 days ago the "come and go pains" got constant and radiated to my back coupled with diarrhea and gurgling. I opted to go to the ER with all the scary "above mentioned pain" and the only thing they did was take blood and they said the results were good. I told the attending physician that i had GERD but was off medication. He said thats was wrong with me and that i needed to go back on them. Im not convinced thats what caused all the pains. Thoughts?

Having been the ER a total of 7 times in the past 5 years because of GERD, I can assure you that GERD can cause a wide variety of symptoms. And they can vary from person to person.

Depending on which hospital you go to and which doctor you get, will depend on how you are treated. I noticed with emergency rooms, their main focus is to triage, stabilize you, and then discharge you, especially once all your EKGs and bloodwork come back negative.

Very rarely do they actually give you the exam you really need and that's an upper endoscopy or something similar. Most doctors want to give you an H2 blocker or proton pump inhibitor and maybe some carafate and see how you feel in 60 to 90 days.

I ended up in the ER last week because I was in a lot of pain. Though it felt like a heart attack because of the pain in my chest, I knew it was my esophagitis and gastritis acting up again.

The ER doctor prescribed me 20 mg of Pepcid and a 4 day supply of Carafate and it's not doing much. I'm going to go see my gastroenterologist if I don't start to feel better soon.

Can't tolerate ppi's all the time, but have found when I am not taking pantoprazole, I get a sharp spasm like pain below left breast/rib area. The only thing that stops the pain is pantoprazole, no pain killers stop the pain, only the ppi.
Had an MRI but it didn't show anything up so doctor concluded its somehow related with the acid reflux.

Sometimes I feel like my rib cage is being pushed forward. It's hard to explain but it feel like pressure.


This gerd symptoms are terrible. The doctors can't do much for you and it feels like nobody out there thinks you are in any pain. Gerd alone can't kill you but the complications can. And if you can't eat or drink, then there is complications from that.

I was a fool to think the er could help me, but they can't. They take my vitals, perhaps an xray or blood work, and they send me home. Sometimes they tell to just take xanax. This is a terrible disease