Stomach sensitive to cold liquids

[Pokey449]

I was diagnosed with GERD a few years back. I have been on a PPI for 5-6 years. My stomach bugs me often and it feels more like gastritis than GERD, it feels irritated more than having GERD symptoms, but I have a really weird symptom which I have shared with my GI doc but he doesn't seem to excited about it. Sometimes when I drink cold liquids I can feel the cold water hit my stomach and the cold sensation radiates in my GI vault. I can find nothing on the internet about this bizzare symptom. Does anybody know what this means. Is my srtomach mucosa thinned down to the nerves, am I headed to stomach cancer? It really scare me even though my last visit to the GI doc said my stomach problems on a scale of 1-10 are about a 3. I see him again next week. I may ask him to scope me again.

Also, I am wondering if being on a PPI this long is a dead end road?

Pokey

[tanninggirl]

Thanks for the information.  How do they check the ph level?  I had tried to switch w/doctor orders to Zantac because they don't like you to be on Prevcid for a long time but i don't think it's going to work.  Can a reg. doctor do this test or do you have to go to a gastrologist.  I have saw this in another article one time and it makes you think.

Did you get the HCL replacement on your own or what>

[Heartburn23]

Look for supplements that have HCL and pepsin. A functional medicine doctor can test for H pylori and fecal test for Candida and fungal overgrowth. An MD can test for acid, but in my experience will do little to help you. In the long run a $2000.00 functional medicine practitioner, outside of insurance will save your health and money in the long run. I resisted this for so many sad years of harming myself with doctors. 2 surgeries for heartburn.
Drink water only and eat only bakes chicken, boiled eggs, fish and non starchy veg. Only. 7 percent sat. Fat.

Taper off the zantac. Cut in half or stretch out dose of PPI to more than 24 hours. Try to see if heartburn last more than 3 minutes. Drink aleovera for pain. I haven’t tried “bitters” yet.

I can now eat one slice of pizza, but no more at lunch and suffer only a tiny bit. This was after months of an extremely limited diet. No pain and good sleep is worth it. (The limited diet)

After 9 years, I found success. Doctors have insufficient knowledge on this matter because they aren’t looking for a cause just a cure to pain that ultimately does even more harm.

[Lauralight]

all low stomach acid complaints. Ph tests need to be done, low stomach acid causes GERD and reflux, because the LES senses the acid levels strong enough naturally when it closes after meals and wont' close if there's not enough acid. My problem too, HCL replacement is needed for me.

[tanninggirl483]

I've been experiencing the same thing.  I had all kinds of test last year and nothing showed except acid reflux.  This feeling has been here before but went away but not and then i feel it again also sometimes it's a feeling of having to burp and can't but then i do.  Have you found out what it is yet?  By the way do you have Raynaud's Phenonomen?