I have pretty bad GERD, saw a gastroenterologist for a year, had many tests, including the one with the pH meter in your esophagus. The result of all these is that I'm "normal." Quit going to that guy and haven't done much with the problen since. I've got three things that usually come together, one before the others, but they all seem related. If I'm laughing or coughing, I can get hiccups, sometimes painful ones that are hard to get rid of. Then I feel that familiar GERD problem. And if I bend over, like to load the dishwasher, I get reflux. Any ideas? Is there a positional factor in GERD? Could the irritation from GERD make the hiccups worse? Or does the irritation in my throat from GERD trigger coughs that then make the hiccups come?