Thanks for your question. GERD has been known to cause chest pain in some people, acording to this list of common symptoms. However, chest an arm pain are often times indicators of something more serious. Check with your doctor about these symptoms as soon as possible to make sure they are not angina and heart attack. You may want to try using this symptom checker before you go to have some background information when talking with your doctor. I hope this helps.

Leonard Mardeusz

10/10/11 10:38am

My primary  care doctor has prescribed ome omeprazalome for the acid reflux.

Also I am having a stress-echo test to see if the may be heart related.

The arm pain is most noticeable when I mow the lawn.

I had a triple bypass 20 years ago. I have a nuclear stress test every year. Those results show good results.

 

can acid reflex make you short of breath and chills or sweats

I have had chest, arm and back pain. It often moves around a little but more so chest. I went to the doctor because it seems like symptoms of a heart attack. After running a serious of test (MRI, CATSCAN, Anagram). I mean they did everything. The result came back with no heart problems. They even put me on that treadmill at top speed. So they gave me a GI cocktail to move all the acid out of my esophagus and two hours or so later the pain went away. I didn't know acid reflux could cause so must pain, but it can cause chest pain, back pain and pain down your arms.