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Tips and stategies for living with digestive disorders such as GERD, hiatal hernias, and peptic ulcers.

10 Things to Stop Doing If You Suffer From Heartburn

You may be doing something that is making your heartburn worse. If you want to control your heartburn, here is a list of things you have to stop doing.

Share Your Stories About Living With Chronic Heartburn

You can share your stories about how you have learned to live with chronic heartburn. Tell others what causes you heartburn and how you deal with it.

Share Your Stories About Living with GERD

What we do in our daily lives will often determine whether we suffer from heartburn or not. There are several areas covered below, all of which will give you an opportunity to share your stories and tips, and see what others have to say.

Rate and Review Heartburn Related iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Apps

Have you used a heartburn or GERD related app? Love it? Hate it? Rate and review the app here!

Rate and Review Heartburn Related Smartphone or Android Apps

Have you used a heartburn or GERD related app? Love it? Hate it? Rate and review the app here!

GERD - What is the Most Annoying Thing About Having GERD

What is the most annoying thing about having GERD for you? Is it the avoiding of certain foods? Is it the sleepless nights? What has been your experience?

Living with Chronic Heartburn

What we do in our daily lives will often determine whether we suffer from heartburn or not. If you suffer from GERD, your lifestyle habits can have a huge impact. Learn how to live with chronic heartburn.

Travel Heartburn Help

Unusual foods, eating on the run, and the overindulgence that often goes hand in hand with being on vacation can all contribute to a flare-up of acid reflux disease. Combine that with the stress of jet lag and sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings, and you’ve got a recipe for putting the burn back into heartburn. However, by taking a few precautions when you travel, you can have the vacation you dreamed of and leave your heartburn symptoms behind.

Living With Peptic Ulcers

Having a peptic ulcer isn't the long, trying to avoid stress, type of ordeal it used to be. With the correct medication, lifestyle and diet modifications, most ulcers will heal.

What you should do if you have a hiatal hernia

A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach pushes through an opening in the diaphragm, and up into the chest. This opening is called the esophageal hiatus or diaphragmatic hiatus. If you've been diagnosed with a hiatal hernia, you'll need to know how to live with it.

Living With Acid Reflux Disease

If you have been diagnosed with acid reflux disease (GERD), you'll want to learn how to control the symptoms. The acid reflux disease will still be there, but you can aleviate and in many cases, prevent the symptoms.

No Heartburn - How I Changed My Habits to Live With No Heartburn

If you have suffered from chronic heartburn, you know how it can affect your daily life. In many cases, avoiding foods that cause heartburn, making some lifestyle modifications, taking measures to prevent nighttime heartburn, can help individuals live a heartburn-free life. Besides medications, what have you done that allows you to live heartburn-free? Share you stories or get ideas from others.

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