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The advice people are giving is wonderful. I am sure you will find relief from your symptoms shortly.

I would like to throw something out in the atmosphere for you to consider as well. I went through a period of time where my stress level was enormous and I found that I was eating about a bottle of Tums every month or so. I had the upper GI series done and they found nothing. I had gotten the presciption Zantac until it came off prescription.

My brother-in-law finally convinced me to have an endoscopy done. For anyone who is not familiar, an endoscopy is where they insert a camera down your throat and into your stomach. The acid had started to eat away the lining of my esophagus and stomach. Once that starts, scar tissue begins to form and it begins to close off your esophagus and food gets stuck on the way down. So now I am a permanent member of the Nexium club.

My point in sharing this with you is that most heartburn symptoms are controllable and, happily, few people need to contend with this type of problem for long stretches. However, there are those for whom this seems to be an inherited, or chronic disease. If your stress level is high and your family tends to be this way, please try and take the Zantac on a regular basis until the symptoms get under control (meaning a week or so). If you find that it last longer than before, you may want to consider having it attended to or at least checked out.

I hope I have not gotten too graphic for everyone. I just want to give something to consider.