Please help! I don’t know if these symptoms are GERD

When I was young I noticed I would bring up food sometimes but it never really got heart burn with it or that acidic sour taste anyway fast forward to age 19 I started getting weird symptoms sounding like acid reflux that would come and go, in May 2017 i had to go into the doctors because i had this constant heartburn that wouldn’t let up and I could feel the acid coming back up after meals the doctor put me on some medication and the symptoms cleared up and everything went back to normal it’s now November 2017 and the same kind of symptoms are back except they feel worse this time I feel like I have a overload of mucous in the back of my throat that won’t go away like I can physically spit it out it’s actually there, I have had heartburn for several hours a day for the past week, constant feeling of that acid reflux coming back up sensation every time I eat.. I’m not sure what’s going on this all started with my throat feeling with that excess mucous in it and then I got the nausea feeling and wasn’t eating normal for a couple of days then every time I did eat I’d get heart burn and acid reflux feeling. Dose this sound like GERD or acid reflux I’m really confused because it comes and goes I was completely fine two weeks ago ans Now I’m feeling this way.. the heart burn and the throat mucous are the worst parts the heart burn is a pain in the chest area and it feels like I have to burp but I can’t.. please help

Candycorn, you may want to keep a food diary of everything you eat & document what foods are triggering this too. You should stay away from spicy foods & anything acidic as long as this is going on. The food diary can be shared with your dr & should be. Avoiding alcohol, caffeine also can help. Elevate the head of your bed will also keep the acid from coming up the back of your throat. I slept in a recliner for a couple of years & it made a world of difference. While that may not sound good to you, getting the head of your bed up will help. You can buy risers or use a brick or blocks of wood.

Along with chewing more completely, one of the easiest and, in my experience, most effective life-style changes you can make is to eat dinner 4 hours before going to bed. OK, it’s not that easy, but you’ll really be happy that you did.

As part of ‘eat early’ program, make sure that you have a lite dinner. Also not easy, but well worth the effort. Make these changes now, and see what effect they have. It may be all that you need to do, in which case you’re lucky.

The bad news is that alcohol is definitely upsetting to the stomach, so if must drink, also do that 3 to 4 before going to bed. Be kind to you stomach and see how your body responds. Good luck.