Can gerd cause body pain and joint stiffeness

Hi if somebody can answer this please do its driving me crazy thinking I'm gonna die everyday. First I'm 22 years old and am overweight I have been to the er several times so far this year and I have a primary care doctor who I see and he says I have herd but what I have found online is that gerd doesn't cause pain in your arms neck back so on I haven't seen a gastro yet I'm not sure if my medical threw dshs will cover one but it seems day after I eat or get done doing something physical I get weird pains in my right arm and sometimes left and chest pains that happen on my left side but more so on my right side a couple inches over from the center of my chest to right above ky breast bone my doctor also says it is anxiety and depression. My symptoms are palpitaions, chest fluttering, arm pain, chest pain, back pain, shoulder pain, stiff neck with pain, taste of acid or metallic taste in my mouth when I wake up and threw out the day, food washing back up,chest tighness, and many others my last er visit they did an ultra sound for a blood clot and checked my liver enzymes and checked my heart for any damage and my liver came back fine and they said my heart hasn't had any damage done to it. Sorry for all The talking I'm just not sure if it is ky heart even know they said there is no damage to it. But last night it started scaring me after I was runnin around and stuff and when I got home my heart beat was ranging from 92 to 114 and I will say I slipt becouse of all of the stress and stuff and I smoked weed last night so I'm not sure if that could be the cause but it seemed to never do anything when I smoked it. Please help its driving me crazy.

I think i have had some of my worst muscle aches/neck pains after really bad heartburn nights/episodes. I think my whole body just tenses up so bad during a flare-up that you don't even realize how bad until sometimes the day after. I do get upper back pain with my heartburn too but sometimes you feel as if you have been hit by a bus afterwards!

 Your pains sound pretty much "normal" to me. I have also had these pains, matter of fact I am having some as we speak. I have had pain in my chest so bad that I thought I was having a heart attack. I get pretty bad muscle cramps in my back, side and chest area from time to time. I am actually glad to hear that someone else has those to because I have actually been afraid to mention these to my doctor because I am so tired of all the tests that come back normal. I can also tell you, that for at least, when these pains or GERD flare ups happen my anxiety seems to shoot up because I worry to much and that tends to make things worse and all I want to do is lay down or find a quiet place to hide for a while.

 But if you have not been to a GI doc you really need to go. They can set you up on a diet and or meds that will help take the edge off and slow down the internal damage the acid is doing.

I actually just got back from urgent care tonight because symptoms were so bad. I was put on privacid. I'm hoping this helps.

Hey fellow GERD sufferers.
I have been on Prevacid twice a day and really notice my muscles are very achy! This Prevacid really seems to work but my arms hurt!
Anyone else?

This may be six months later, but I never thought the pills might be causing all the body pain stiffness. That could be interesting. For the first guy, I would not sweat it too much. An ER doc, who made much sense, said if you have something that flares and subsides, the possibilities of you dying from it are unbelievably rare. Makes sense. I bet money anxieties kick up when you are having the GERD troubles. Maybe see if you can take short term, ativan or longer term cymbalta from a doc. It may give you a break and you may just be freaked from the interior actions of your body and not know it. You may just need to "trick" your mind to give your physical body a break. I know it sounds silly, but try Yoga too. seriously, much of life has to do with how you breathe and how you are thinking. Also, really record as best you can what foods you have eaten for the day and when, and what combinations. You may be able to control flares. Thanks for this post, I have the exact same things- :)

Hi my daughter has recently been diagnosed with gurd, she was driving one day and she suddenly got disoriented ,she couldn't see ,her heart was beating fast ,her chest felt heavy,  she thought she was having a heart attack,  she pulled over and called and ambulance.  the weeks following that she felt like she couldn't breathe her throat felt swollen, her body ached,her hands began swelling and felt numb and tingly then she got a bad sinus infection, she was miserable  she didn't know what was happening to her, she did research and found she had gurd, she now take prescribed meds and she is doing good.  sometimes docs don't know whats wrong with you sometimes it pays to research for yourself

Since my last post in January things have changed for me substantially in a very positive way. From doing endless research and taking matters into my own hands I have almost completely rid myself of the abdominal pains and my reflux situation now seems to be under control. Basically it has involved an extreme change in diet which has not at all been easy to do at 42. No more eating after 7pm! Fruits, vegetables and water is now my main fuel and almost completely cut out the caffeine. Yes, I have slipped a few times and it was noticeable when I have. I had read that leafy vegetables could help that awful acid reflux so I decided to give it shot so I could stop taking so many antacids. I now eat salads with lots of baby leaf spinach and a tiny bit of oil and vinegar dressing for dinner at least every other day. I still eat meats but more grilled or baked fish and chicken than I have ever eaten. This may not be easy to stick to but it has been more than worth it for me. Also the 11 pounds I have lost since roughly February has not hurt me one bit!

avocados, cucumbers, leaf spinach, beets (not great), lintels, apples, bananas, honeydew melon

Hope this can help someone.

Safe to say I get everyone of these symptoms I'm 22
I'm slightly underweight I just wish I knew what triggers these episodes
Shoulder pressure is pretty annoying it's like your whole body's being weighed to the ground
Does anyone else take omprazole ?

I also just recently got diagnosed with GERD and experience many weird symptoms. I had to be put on antidepressants and anxiety medication because my symptoms are just too much for me. I'm seeing a Dr almost every week trying to figure if its just GERD or something more.

I get joint pains, loss of sensation, neck stiffness, feet and hands hurt. All my blood work comes back fine, MRI checks out, don't have diabetes. I think stress is just eating me alive. I have gone most of my life without ever getting sick. I got chest pain then they did an xray and said it was bronchitis.

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I've beeb experiencing alot of the same symptoms. It's crazy because I am only ninteen. It frustrates me because I can rarely eat what I want. I often feel sick and achy. I get nauseous sometimes and gerd seems to make my migraibes worse. It makes them so severe that I get dizzy. I sometimes get ringing in my ears and a sore throat. It also has caused me to get anxiety and panic attacks. I feel too young to have to be dealing with some of these issues...

Well, I think all these posts have described many of my incidences. I went to a GI doc and had an endoscopy which confirmed that I had GERD. Mine was at the point of having a swollen stomach and esophagus. It felt pretty terrible. I went on omeprazole for almost a year and it worked well at killing the acid. I had to go off it though because it cased me calcium deficiency which started some other issues. If you go on a PPI make sure you ask you doc about calcium and magnesium deficiency and possibly see if they think you should be supplementing. Not everyone is the same, but I definitely had a problem with it. I also have had gerd flare ups now that I'm off the PPI, but I am supplementing and am beginning to take another shorter acting medication at night at my docs direction. If you have pain, you need to see the GI doc, and figure it out with them. For me when it went from just acid in my throat to pain in my chest and fatigue and etc etc according to all that you have said, that was when I had to get fixed. Diet change helps me a lot but I still need some help.

My neck sometimes hurts on both sides, almost like it's bruised. When I went to my doctor, he said that it could sometimes happen with GERD sufferers.