I had this for several years. In my case it's a genetic disposition.
My father says that he didn't have a full night's sleep for 40 years, vomiting acid etc - until the development of 'proton pump inhibitors' which sound like something from Star Trek - especially as my father looks and sounds exactly like Leonard Nimoy.

It's actually very bad news as your bile can eat through sheet metal and left untreated you have a massively increased chance of oesophageal cancer.

Still, it's probably nothing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:49, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's also a symptom of oesophageal cancer
which is nice to hear.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:50, Reply)

That's why you shoudl never google symptoms
"I have a little tummy ache"
CANCER
"no honestly it's just a small tummy ache like a little pain"
CANCER
"seriously now you think it's cancer? I just felt a little rou..."
CANCER MOTHERFUCKER
( Theoban What of it, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:52, Reply)

I had night sweats for a while
according to NHS Direct it was either AIDS, Typhoid or Cancer.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:53, Reply)

In fairness, it was, though.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)

I've been a little sick after eating some mayonnaise
According to the internet it's either stomach cancer or an ulcer

I think it's cos that mayonnaise was really old
( Theoban What of it, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)

I bet they felt stupid
when it turned out to be all 3
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:55, Reply)

Your intestinal cancer had AIDS.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:55, Reply)

It's worth doing just for the peace of mind
BUM CANCER
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)

Just like reading the Daily Mail... CANCER! DIANA! ASYLUM SEEKERS! MORE CANCER! HOUSE PRICES! EVEN MORE CANCER!

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)

Lies about William Hague

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)

His new bf is well dishy

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:20, Reply)

I agree with the dishy bit
but reckon Hague would be too smart to try and sneak a lover in while the expenses scandal is still ongoing
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:23, Reply)

He's a clumsy cockhound
and no mistake
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Really?
I'd say he probably has that, then.

Actually, definitely.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:53, Reply)

Yeah specifically the very hard to treat sort on the bottom third of the oesophageal tract.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)

The untreatable one?
It's that one for sure.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:08, Reply)

You mean the sort that forms a tumour in which a noxious gas builds up slowly over time
until in about six months' time it bursts and my oesophagus, without warning, shoots down through my digestive tract and straight out of my anus?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:10, Reply)

No.
What happens is you swell up and eventually explode like that fellow at the end of 'Live and Let Die'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:13, Reply)

Oh, well that's just undignified...

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:16, Reply)

Highly.
Very much frowned upon in polite society.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Especially if they then play fucking Wings afterwards.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Wings, "the band the Beatles could have been"
Alan Partridge (I think), used much by Surly Turk
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Reading between the lines here...
Monty has done way too much acid.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:51, Reply)

yeah. sounds like it's not worth getting checked out all. Who needs an oesophagus anyway? I'd leave it if I were you.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:52, Reply)

Pharoahs.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Hahahah!
Very good.
Carry on.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 17:06, Reply)