Living with Heartburn

The first time I felt, I guess, the symptoms of heartburn and just an incredible burning sensation, it felt like breathing fire and persistent. There's nothing really that you could do. I tried to drink water to take care of it, but that wouldn't really douse it. Before I started taking medication, there really wasn't any food that I would avoid. But I would find out pretty quickly which foods would give me heartburn. Things that caused it would be, like, barbecue pork, which I love. Sometimes if I would have wine, in particular white wine, in conjunction with something that I would eat, I would seem to notice I would have acid reflux more often. I guess my heartburn was more frequent, then I would take antacids. But I started to have a pain in the middle of my back, kind of a dull pain. And it didn't seem like heartburn. And then I was sent to have a test, an upper GI test, where you drink a barium solution along with, I don't know how you'd call it, pop rocks or whatever. It fills your esophagus with air, and you have to swallow something. Then they film the barium going down your throat, and they can see if there's any acid reflux. And it turned out I had a hiatal hernia and acid reflux. Now if I get an attack, it's... Almost it feels like you need to burp, but you can't. It's very mild. It's not the burning sensation. I'm going to try and modify my diet when I can. I'm not going to give up the stuff that I love, but I'm going to try and be a little bit better during the week, I think.