It's also important to note that while gerd symptoms often occur after eating too much or too fast, you can actually have gerd symptoms on an empty stomach that's because there's always acid in the stomach, even when it's empty, explains hardeep singh, md, a gastroenterologist with st joseph hospital in orange, california. Gerd with empty stomach. An empty stomach is going to cause worse reflux when you are hungry, a lot of stomach juice (read acid) is produced for the food that the stomach is expecting then when the stomach is growling, you can get that acid being pushed up your esophagus.
gerd with empty stomach
These are my exact symptoms my supposed acid reflux is way worse when my stomach is empty nausea, pain, little appetite, feeling full after 1/4 meal, upper gut discomfort worse until like 5pm after i eat dinner i lost 20+ lbs already, endoscopy and colonoscopy and bloodwork shows nothing. The empty stomach feeling often worsens with hunger. it accompanies upper abdominal pain and may be temporarily eased by eating, only to return a short while thereafter. acid reflux. acid reflux, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd), is a common condition. gerd involves the esophagus (food pipe) where stomach acid and enzymes. Refluxsux (great name!) - i have the same problem! my gerd is many times worse if i don't have food in my stomach. i don't know why, but it is. i also find that when i am too tired i have worse gerd too. compound that with an empty stomach and i'm miserable :(.
