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Severe Chest Pains, Bananas

When I eat bananas I get pain in my esophagus that really really hurts.  I've gone to the hospital a couple of times.  The first time I thought it was a heart attack.  This has been going on for over a decade.  The bananas can be green, yellow, yellow with brown spots or brown and it still happens.  I have been diagnosed with GERD, I have had ulcers in the past, I've had a couple upper endoscopies (which didn't reveal anything except the ulcers) and I went in for a procedure that basically stretched my esophagus.  This doesn't happen every time I eat a banana.  Previously, I was using medical marijuana and never had a problem, but moved to a very conservative state for work so that is no longer an option.  I use Prilosec when my reflux gets bad.  My doctor also put me on Flovent after I had my esophagus stretched.  This is really painful, and I would like to get it diagnosed.  I live in a very rural area and the doctors here are generally very bad, so what should  I be asking them to get them headed in the right direction with diagnosing this?  What kind of tests do you ask for to determine banana allergy?  or autoimmune disorder?  
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