GERD issues

Hi Pinksky4u,
I'm sorry to hear about your Gerd and your problems with it. That's terrible! I drink Stash tea from Oregon. I just love it and have drank it for many years. My favorite is orange spice. They do have a lot of ginger tea blends. Their website is Stashtea.com. This tea is very natural. They have a lot of different varieties. I hope this helps.
PML

Treating your GERD is highly important. What’s causing it? Besides ginger which is good, dietary changes are critical. But again what is “causing” your GERD? That info is critical to treating it.
Best to you!

The cause of my GERD is unknown. I am trying a bland diet, but I still have GERD after any food. The ginger tea seems to help very little, but some.

actually for me, ginger seems to make things worse, it's too...not sure what; but it seems to aggravate my tummy, too strong...

@pinksky4u These may help, you will just have to try for yourself. Two are decaf and one is not. I drink these all during the day. I am not really a coffee drinker. My Dad and Mom always drank tea, so not much coffee around our house growing up. Now with Gerd, I stick with my tea. Below are the three teas I drink most of the time.
Steep by Bigelow organic lemon ginger caffeine-free herbal tea
Yogi Stomach Ease supports healthy digestion through caffeine-free organic herbal supplement
Harney & Sons Hot Cinnamon spice black tea
I do not steep these as long as suggested. You will have to adjust to taste.
These work for me. I hope this helps you. Take care KLH

Try Throat Coat tea. Also from Amazon Gaviscon Advanced. Also trying bland diet to heal esophagus.
Good luck

Try Gin-gins or Chimes ginger chews through the day! It's got sugar tho, but helps in a pinch.

I can relate. I have had GERD symptoms for about 4 months. Including food getting stuck half way down, hard time swallowing, hard time burping and when I do burp relieves pressure also have lost 80 pounds in 4 months. I have had a scope, barium swallow all that came back just fine so my GI dr had basically told me it’s not anything to do with heartburn and I’m suffering daily! I take a GI cocktail witch relieves pain for about 20 minutes then comes right back. My chest gets super tight and it feels like my chest is gurgling. All these symptoms are not heartburn/GERD according to the professionals? Also I get super dizzy and lightheaded all threw out the day. Any advice would be helpful.

Dexilant is a strong PPI RX , it’s very expensive as there is no generic. You can get savings card and pay like almost nothing ( online ) I tried that and Protonix RX too to no avail.

I suffer 10 years with 6-7 chronic digestive disorders. Tried everything.
I mean everything.
Sometimes Dr’s just put you in the medical mystery category and that’s it .
It’s horrible.

Please do not do surgery until you try this instead.

1. Get off all PPI (Proton Pump Inhibitor) meds like omprezole, pantaprozole, Zantac etc. BUT you must do so gradually because of the rebound effect. Namely, your body, desperately trying to make sufficient acid to metabolize your food, particularly break down proteins, keeps making acid pumps, which the PPIs keep silencing. If you go cold turkey it will be holy hell. I know I have been there. The reason you have to get off PPIs is that they wreck havoc with your capacity to absorb nutrients because they deacidify your stock. Again I have been there. DREADFUL anemia that had to be treated with iron infusions to get me back to just being able to walk a block!

2. The basic "cause" of GERD is NOT excess acid, but insufficient acids for adequate digestion, most particularly protein breakdown into amino acids. Try this "test". Take 2 TBS of apple cider vinegar in half a glass of water after eating. Do you feel better or worse? I bet you will feel better which means, too little acid. SO take digestive bitters (by Gaia (2 dropperfuls in water) before meal. Experiment with Betain HCL Pepsin (Pure puts out qualify product) try 2 before meals, up dose it not kickback) to up to 6 before meal. I generally stopped at 6...still take them before a big meal.

3. Heal your gut lining. Zinc carnosine helped me. And black raspberry powder in water or yogurt for my Barrett's syndrome after years of GERDS.

4. Eat earlier. Most older people's digestion stops naturally earlier. Thus try to eat before 6 pm. If you go to bed early (10 pm) try to make that 5 pm. Lay off all alcohol for now. It makes GERD must worse.

5. If you must take something to relieve pressure, heartburn, try bicarbonate of soda in water. Try to get an aluminum free product.

It worked for me. My father suffered from GERD and hiatal hernia. I thought..hey it's my generic destiny. In my mid-40s...I started vomiting after meals! Hey my mother did that! So again genetic destiny. I started my regime of PPIs under doctor's orders and it never "cured" me and caused all sorts of knock off effects (probably even my breast cancer as a contributory cause)...and most decidedly all sorts of nutritive deficiencies. At 85 I have never felt better. No more GERD even at night. Weeks ago I had a late but light enough (Poke Bowl) meal at 8 pm preceded by 2 Cosmopolitans. Oh may God! The Demon GERD was back. I haven't felt that bad in years. I had to resort to the carb of soda, which worked.

So good luck. It can be done. The underlying problem, generally speaking, is NOT excess acid but inadequate acid to do the job of digestion. I don't know if Western trained docs are just oblivious or what. But their armatarium of PPIs sure don't work. And surgery is way too invasive and irreversible. Let me know if it works.