True..LOL!!!

Is it still suggested to take an aspirin or the old baby aspirin per day etc, if HA is possible??
As long as it doesn't have any interaction with current meds.. ?

Not a HA, and too much Aspirin's not stomach friendly.

Aw, Sally! Maybe a call to your doctor would be a good idea so you can get a prescription for nitroglycerin. It really helps with esophageal spasms. It's great to have on hand for those times when the esophagus just wants to remind you that it's there and is a muscle. I have not had the bad ones in a while, thank goodness. I have some minor spasms but not the full on spasms that I had about a couple of years ago.

I hope you feel better soon.

((((( Sally )))))

AFTER you have everything checked out you might try some pressure just below the rib cage and sternum. Sometimes the abdominal wall is also in spasm and that sets off the esophagus as well as the stomach. It sounds like that may be the case if it happens when you are laying down.

This technique works for me to get the HUG to back off if I get it early...but please get it checked out first.

With love, Erika

Sally-

not to scare you, but...

my grandmother had esophageal spasms off&on for years and had nitro tabs for attacks (it helped her quite a bit). One weeknight she/we assumed it was another of her esoph spasms, like usual.

Fast forward two weeks later during a routine appointment. All of a sudden I am getting called back and told she is to go to cardio doctor X and 'they are expecting her'. Next thing I know she is having a cardiac cath at hospital. Turns out the doctor (cardio) said "Tell me what you are feeling right now" She said another of her awful heartburn or esophageal spasms. He sternly tells her "No Fran, what you are feeling is a heart attack. Just because it walks like a duck & quacks like a duck does not always mean it's a duck."

In women, the symptoms are often interchangeable and go unrecognized as a HA until after damage has been done. She was extremely lucky and we learned a big lesson that day!

Go get thoroughly checked out - either way you can find out get treatment and hopefully stop it from happening (or at least as often)

taking off the borrowed "Ugly ape face" mask
love-jane