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Dexilant is just another PPI.... no added benefits.. it is just like any other including Nexium.

There are sites on the internet with suggestions to get off GERD drugs. Using apples every night...and apple cider vinegar and other agents works for some people.

You can search these remedies.

For myself I used essential fatty acids (flax oil, evening primrose and fish oil) daily over a decade ago, and it fixed my chronic GERD. (I have a severe hiatal hernia too).

This is the essential fatty acid thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=6092

Much of the GERD people have is from undigested protein when you use the GERD drugs, from causing gas and fermentation in the bowel. This gas rises and causes belching and night time
movement of stomach contents into the esophagus, which cannot tolerate the burning because it does not have mucus like the stomach does to protect it.

GERD is a vicious cycle.

Basically removing acid does not correct this problem. It makes it worse. Search Google and you will find some good information about.