You are being an absolute sweetheart to keep entertaining me. Thank you, it means a lot.
I'm pretty sure I've had it all of my life. I had to go to the doctors for constipation when I was really little (he prescribed mineral oil, very gross). When I was 13 I started feeling sick to my stomach all of the time, so that's when I started with the Pepcid. It was prescription back then. That didn't work, so I had my first endoscopy and gastric emptying test, and then it was onto the Prilosec and some anti-spasmodics. That didn't work so then I took 2 prilosec. That didn't work so they put me on a low dose of an anti-depressant that was supposed to calm my stomach down. Then they came out with Nexium which spared me taking two pills a day. The nexium and the amitryptilene worked ok, but not great, which is why I'm doing this new round of tests. So I've had my diagnosis of GERD for 12 years, even though they're still not sure I really have it, and the IBS for 8 or so.