Chest pains, hiatal hernia, acid reflux

I do hope you realize I'm going to tell you to contact your doctor.

But also, you are bringing some of this upon yourself by not watching your food. I know it's not easy (I am long-term dieter and there are definitely times that I just want to say to hell with it and grab a slice of pizza and then get a cheesecake for later). But one thing you need to do is start training yourself to associate the chocolate or whatever with the pain that you experience afterwards. You are experiencing consequences from these behaviors and I think you may be mentally separating them. Don't. Put them together and keep telling yourself, if I eat this Snickers bar it is going to mean pain for me later.

Your username is "Coke train" and you're trying to figure out why you have chest pains?

Really?

I've recently been going thru every test imaginable to rule out heart or lung problems. I'll try to keep this short, but if you need additional info I would welcome questions by PM. I never ever got heartburn, my major symptom for reflux was a constant cough. It was surgically repaired, went exceptionally well, but 2 months after the 1st repair I caught the bug that everyone seemed to get but it made me cough for 4 weeks, which re-ruptured the hernia. I waited 2 years and had the surgery again. Six years later, I know I have a 2 centimeter hernia but the previous surgeries may have caused another condition. Yesterday I had an upper endoscopy that shows everything great, but when they got to my stomach (I consumed no solid food for 16 hours) food was still being retained in my stomach.

I started back with tests when I started having chest pains. I've done every heart test so far and my heart & lungs are fine. Yet I still get chest pains. I will have a few more tests next week, but apparently my stomach lining has now become a problem, no cancerous lesions are expected but benign lesions that may prevent the stomach from emptying into the place it needs to go for normal elimination.

So, yes hiatal hernia can cause chest pain, I can only eat small amounts because I become satiated so quickly, and it might be hours before I can eat anything else.

You might want to contact me thru PM only because I'm guessing most folks don't find internal digestive operations all that interesting. I can at least let you know what my next step will be according to my crack team of medical professionals. I'm just offering it if you are comfortable, I know when we have similar problems its not particularly interesting to others. Good Luck, ColeTrain, txt me if you want. That should be PM me if you like, it's a complicated health problem, maybe we can help each other.

Sorry you're going through all this, Glitterbag.

I think a lot of people are interested in discussion about hiatal hernia and acid reflux problems, and stomach lining problems.

You may be right Osso, it's complex and I really wish it wasn't. The only reason I suggested going off line was to avoid someone coming up with an uber simplistic cure (think rubbing clove oil on an onion and burying it in the back yard). There may very well be something fairly simple that might help, but I need to get to the bottom of this stupid stomach crap. At least the battery of every heart and lung function imaginable in March 2013 indicates both heart and lungs are strong. I haven't heard from the original poster, hope he gets the help he needs.

How you doing Osso?

I'm a mess as usual. Otherwise fine. (I might pm you)

I'm always here for you, thats what friends are for