Patients that have either GERD or gastritis, experience same symptoms in a form of syndrome, known as dyspepsia or difficult digestion.
Dyspepsia symptoms are reccurent or chronic upper abdominal pain above the navel, upper abdominal fullness, early satiety (the sensation of fullness after a very small amount of food), abdominal bloating, nausea with or without vomiting, belching and heartburn.
With GERD you'll experience food or stomach juices regurgation, or feeling of acid backing up in the throat.
The sensation that food is trapped behind the breastbone, hoarseness, dry cough, the sensation of having a lump in the throat, and the need to repeatedly clear the throat, chronic sore throat, persistent hiccups, are less common symptoms of GERD that can make the distinguishing diagnosis more easilly made.
Hiatus hernia predisposes one to have attacks of GERD or acid reflux.
When the acid reflux symptoms get worse overtime and unreposible to regular drug therapy, a surgery for hernia is usually, suggested.
Insomnia is a common side effects of Pantoprazole.
Tingling sensation in your hands and legs is known as paresthesia, and is a rare side effect of certain antacids.