I have never really had terrible acid reflux. I got the occasional nasty burp after eating chili or pizza but nothing bad. A few weeks ago I had a severe coughing fit after choking on a piece of food. Then I developed a cold and have been coughing a lot and really hard. Like hard enough to give myself headaches.

Now for the past week I have been having crazy acid reflux, lots of heartburn, and burping. I have even woken up in the middle of the night with a burning acidic feeling in my mouth and throat. This also induced much coughing. I am concerned about this. I have never experienced this ever. I get looking at things like gerd and what causes this. Then that leads to things like hiatel hernias as a cause for gerd. So then I start worrying that I have a hiatel hernia because pressure form coughing may cause that. Then my mind goes to well my severe coughing for the past several weeks has created a hiatel hernia which is giving me the reflux issues. It is all just a bit frustrating. I have no idea where this reflux came from. No changes in my diet or anything.

I saw my doctor today about the acid reflux and they said to try and make some dietary changes and not eat late at night and see how that goes. If no success they will give me omprezole to help. Anyone care to share any experience with this situation? Any advice?