Living with a Hiatal Hernia and Acid Reflux

Living with a Hiatal Hernia and Acid Reflux

Filed Under: African American Health · Baby Boomer · Black Health · Black Men’s Health · Black Women’s Health · Hiatal Hernia

by CK Dillon

Living with a Hiatal Hernia … By: Kathy D, Contributing Author

April 07, 2010©

Hi. My name is Kathy D, and I am a woman who believes in controlling those things we can control. The rest, I try to leave up to God.

The Beginning:

The year was 2003. I was pretty active so I always had a few pains here and there. Nothing to concern myself with. Just deal with it.

After about a week of dealing with it, I realized the constant pain in my chest was not going away, as I had assumed it would. Not only was it not going away, it was becoming more severe.

The pain was lodged dead center, in my upper abdomen. Chest Pain In Women For some odd reason I just kept assuming it would go away. Sometimes we self diagnose. And we are wrong.

I had gone through so much in such a short time from June 2002 through early 2003. I’d lost my father in late June and had to travel across country to attend his funeral. After which I had to help settle family business with my mom and brother.

Stress is Raising its Head. But I can Handle It

With only a week to spare, after my return home, we had to pack and load a moving van to transport our household belongings to another state. We had sold our house right before my dad’s unexpected death.

My stressful journey continued with the hassles of moving to a new state,

Movers building a new home, living with in-laws, and making sure my mom got settled into her new home. You see, in the midst of being in control of things, I had convinced mom to move from her home state to be near my brother and I.

Generally, I was a little fatigued, but didn’t pay it much attention. Never for a moment did I believe these added stresses could cause health problems, but evidently I had a lot to learn.

My Symptoms

One day in early 2003, I began to have serious chest pains. My first thought was I was having heart problems, since heart disease ran in the family, Heart attack Stopped and my father had passed from heart complications.