I have had acid reflux off and on for 2 years or more. Now it's acute and won't response to anti acid medication so having an endoscopy next Wednesday.
So in the beginning I thought the nausea it was something I ate. Eating something again helped temporary not to feel sick.So why does it help?
The food gives your stomach acid something to do, and may have temporarily mildly lowered its pH. Also a ‘weight‘ is your stomach may have stretched it enough to ‘close’ the top sphincter a bit more through tension (like pulling on an elasticated draw string bag - pull it and it tightens, release and it relaxes slightly). A full stomach means ‘overflow’ but just a little food would work. It could be that the muscle there isn’t working at 100% so needed the ‘weight’ to fully close it (maybe 🤷♀️😅)
Hope your endoscopy goes well, and you get answers that lead to treatment!
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