She was diagnosed with gerd about a year ago and was put on altosec. Lately she has become nauseous after eating, has stomach cramps and sometimes has pains in her throat. At first the altosec did its job but lately since developing these other symptoms she has had to change her medicine. She went to see a gastroentorologist the other day. He listened to the newer symptoms and has put her on Vomidon which makes the food go through her stomach much faster. She now is starting to loose weight. He has also prescribed Pantocid 40mg to be taken twice a day. She watches what she eats and tries to eat six small meals a day which is not always possible. She takes the vomidon early in the morning. Some days the medications works fine and other days she starts to feel nauseous in the afternoon and the food starts pushing up into the esophagus. The doctor said the acid reflux is not the matter it is the volume in her
stomach that is the problem. She was never tested for esophageal manometry and to see if there might be a problem with the sphincter of the stomach. We are both worried that this might be something serious. She also avoids orange juice, tomatoes, coffee, spicy foods, to much bread etc.
Thank you for anwering my query. I spent the whole day yesterday on the internet comparing her symptoms with any other stomach/indigestion ailments I could find. I eventually came to the conclusion as you so rightfully stated a hiatal hernia.
When she visited the enterologist a few weeks ago she told him that her reflux is not bothering her one bit, only the food that is pushing up in the esophagus and that she
has a burning sensation just below he breast bone. (that is exactly where the LES sits). He changed her medicine and said that if she is not better within two months he will have to do a nissenband on her stomach. As she is only 23 years old we both
decided that is a bit radical there must be another solution.
Yesterday morning first thing I made an appointment with another specialist and he told me he does ALL the necessary tests and then decides on a plan of action. Her
previous doctor did a endoscope ?? last year where he then ascertained she has
GERD and gave her medication for it. Nothing else was done. She has asthma and I read yesterday, while surfing the net, that the medicine used for asthma opens the airways but then also relaxes the LES. So it all starts to make sense. She could only get an appointment with the second doctor in March 2010. But as he apparently is the best in his filed we decided to wait for this date. Kind regards from South Africa