Gerd/HH

Hello everyone,

My name is josh, a 27 year old male. I have what the doctors suppose to be GERD/Hiatal Hernia. I have been to the ER recently with bad chest pains in the center of my chest, A burning sharp pain between my left shoulder blade, right shoulder blade and it moved back and forth, along with a numbing/cold left hand. So naturally i was scared/anxious. This was around the 10th or 11th of this month, they said the back pain was probably skeletal or muscle related ( which i think it is, but the esophagus muscle :) ), and the chest pain was GERD or a hiatal hernia, i went and seen a specialist a few days later and he said that he wanted to do a Endoscopy ( which is scheduled for this Thursday.

Here is a run down of all the pains and problems i have had since, I have also made a list of problems and questions for the next time i see the doctor. I have chest pains that come with belching gas, most mornings when i wake up i have like this pressure in the top of my stomach and only after eating something shortly after does that go away, i get pains in and around my left elbow and wrist, with hands that go cold at the fingers on and off ( im not sure if it is anxiety which i have been suffering from horribly as of late ) The pains in my shoulder blades or between them, come and go with the burping pains. Also sometimes i get the i can't take a full breath which i haven't really pinned down if it goes away when i burp and get all the extra gas out or not, but i am tracking that. Most evenings/mornings is when my pains are at the worst and anxiety along with that.

I hope that i can find some comfort here and relief , Should i ask my doctor to run a H. Ployri test and a candida test , The reason i ask about the candida is because when i see the specialist he seen my tongue which gets really white across the top some nights, and said that i had what looked like a little yeast infection going on but then said i was young and my body should be able to fight it off itself and if not or it gets worse he will give me something to help it, My body weight of the past month has dropped around 12lbs from 190ish down to around 178ish. I don't know if it is because of the stress from anxiety or because my diet has changed so much and i don't eat any carbs hardly besides rice, and i only eat meat once a day to try and cut down on my acid production. So mainly veggies.

Thanks for the help ~Josh

If i think of anything else i will add it to my post.