It all started one night after eating spicy Indian food at a Christmas party. I woke up in the middle of the night in excruciating pain.
I literally felt like someone had poured acid down my throat and my insides were all being burned. I would have gone straight to the emergency room the pain was so bad, but my husband, who is a pharmacist, immediately knew what was wrong.
You have acid reflux, he said, and gave me an over-the-counter medicine to lessen my acid production. I also spent the next few nights trying to sleep sitting up so the acid could not back up again.
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