Hi @gboi

thanks for your comment.

I know exactly what you mean by hollow feeling! That’s exactly how I feel. It’s sad but I’m so happy to find someone with similar issue. It’s so frustrating that no one understands.

I’m 25, also quite into fitness and there is also no way for me to be hungry at night with my diet.

Regarding the bacteria, that’s actually one of my theories. I can see that if I eat more carbs it gets worse.

The PPIs were first prescribed for me when I started dealing with this. At first I resolved it quite easily with steady regimen, dietitian and a lot of cardio. But it came back and now it’s not so easy to get it under control. It’s been slowly progressing and it’s getting worse, although my diet and tricks keep getting better. So you can imagine how frustrated I am.

Couple of things that help:

- I don’t eat now when I wake up - I drink celery juice, this has a very calming effect and I’m not hungry after that

- very thick soups help - we use a soup maker, it’s usually a mix of some leafy green, chickpea, oats and potato. When I eat this before going to bed it’s much better. These soups are very soothing in general, even during the day

- more protein and fat in the diet help, but I suppose you already know this one.

- betaine HCL has been a miracle, it stops it immediately. Unfortunately it burns my esophagus, so I can’t use that one. The same goes for aloe Vera juice, ACV and ginger tea

- prolonged water fasting helped. I went for 96 hours, after that I was kinda back to my old self, the food satiated me again. But I messed up and it came back

I will be happy to continue this discussion because it seems we are suffering from the same thing, whatever it might be.