Good Morning Jan, Thank you for the information.  My stomach gets really painful when I eat any tomato product.  For right now I will not eat pizza, spaghetti and meatballs, baked ziti, oh my what am I going to eat!!!! haha  All my favorite foods are on the DO NOT EAT list.  I can't even drink decaff coffee. ahhhhhh.  It seems like the new medicine, PROTONIX, is working already.  My torso was very painful and now it has calmed down.  Thought I was having a heart attack.  But once I put one and one together I called the doctor and he said it was GERD.  Once again thank you Jan for your input.  Sincerely, Lynn

Oh my goodness Jan.  That's exactly what happens to me.  I thought I was eating too much because I would get stomach aches.  It would start to hurt just after eating.  I would feel so full and bloated.  I don't get anything up in my mouth like most people do.  My pain is more in the gut.  I never had any problems until I had a back operation.  Since then, about 4 years ago, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, acid reflux, high cholesterol and you name it.  For three weeks after my operation I kept telling people that food tasted terrible.  Like it was full of salt.  Everyone said, oh it's just the medication.  By the end of week three, a doctor figured out why I was so violently sick from both ends.  It was C-DIF., C-DIFFICLE, not sure of the spelling, but if you don't know what that is then you will don't know the hell I went though.  I was sick from both ends and hallucinating.  Even an Emergency Room Doctor said it was the flu.  That was at the beginning of week 3.  By the end of that week, I knew I was going to die.  I really believed it.  No strength, no fight left in me.  That's when one of the doctor's, that opened me up from the front to get to my spine, realized it was C-DIF.  He gave me antibiotics and I got better within a few hours!  But now I am left with all these problems and considered DISABLED.  People said sue sue sue, but there was nobody to really point the finger at and I just couldn't go through something like court.  I turned 51 last year and people don't believe me.  When they guess my age it usually about 33.  From the outside nobody can tell that I am a mess inside, so I keep my pain to myself (most of the time).  It's good to know there is someone out there willing to read my sad story. haha  I will ask my doctor about that test you mentioned in your email.  Thank you so much Jan.  Sincerely, Lynn