diagnosing stomach acid issue
Hello all,
I have been having what seems to be GERD issues for awhile. Doctors say it's excess stomach acid. Well, this week I did a home test I found on the interwebs: drink half a glass of water with half a teaspoon of baking soda, first thing in the morning, and time how long it takes to burp. 1-2 minutes indicates excess stomach acid, greater than 5 minutes indicates low stomach acid. It took me about 10 minutes to burp at all and even then only small burps. I did the test three days in a row, same result.
Is there any validity to this? I have read that, in the typically counter-intuitive way that biology can work, low stomach acid can cause symptoms that look like excess stomach acid.
Anyone know?
Thanks.
Tom