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@tinatoren

Thanks for the info. Wow there are so many diseases out there that you never heard of. My pain gets relived about 40 min after eating and that is provided I'm laying down. It usually stays better until my stomach starts getting emptier BUT if I stand up with food in my stomach the pain comes back right away. So it does seem my stomach is weighted down and pulls on some ligament or nerve when I stand. I also get heartflutters when standing and a strange pulling feeling in my chest. Also when I sneeze or cough I can get tiny nerve shocks across chest and into arms. So that part would probably match a very inflamed esophagus but I have no visual damage so I could be wrong. I do wake up with pain at night.
Yes my neurological symptoms are very worrying. It started acutely and I was cramping and jerking intensely in my body. The myoclonic jerks have subsided lately and are not happening so often.
I also feel that my arms are weaker and I do think I have nerve damage in my right arm but I don't know if it the pinched kind or the destroyed kind. My lips tingle when I eat and my nose tingles off and on and I have pain inside nose that comes and goes. I also get these waves of vibration tingles in scalp and arms legs etc plus internal vibrations that also fluctuates. I'm waiting for another brain mri, spinal tap and cervical spine mri.
Like I mentioned here before Im afraid it was a reaction to Prilosec and nexium. I'm so very afraid to try them again. I'm on pepcid now but they go straight into the brain so they could potentially have a bigger risk of causing neuropathy. It's all a mystery and I just have to keep trying to find the answers. All I know for sure is that Ive acid coming into my esophagus for 30 years and that I had no idea until 2014 that I had a hernia. Nor did I understand the severity of reflux disease until 2019.

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@tinatoren since your stomach pain (the gnawing) is relieved after eating seems to suggest hyperacidity in your stomach. Prilosec and Nexium apparently reduce acid, but perhaps they are formulated in a way that your body cannot tolerate? Have you tried Prevacid (generic name is Lanzoprazole) which also is an acid reducer but might be tolerated better by you? Your doctor may prescribe one in the morning and one at night to start but once the acid is under control you could reduce dosage to one a day (in your case, one in the morning)?

My problem is the opposite of yours. I definitely cannot lie down after eating or drinking or else I would end up regurgitating acid and stomach contents (even though I have the head of my bed elevated), eventually getting chest pain. I have to make sure I stop eating at least two - preferably four - hours before I go to bed. Then I have to take the Lanzoprazole (generic of Prevacid) before I get into bed. The head of my bed also needs to be on risers to keep it elevated, to prevent any acid going up into my esophagus.

I used to take one Lanzoprazole in the morning and one at bedtime, but that seemed to dry up most of
my stomach acid, which caused digestive problems because I guess one needs at least some acid to break up food in the stomach. So I switched to taking just one capsule at night, since bedtime is when I did not want or need acid in my stomach. 🤷🏼‍♀️