Thank you all for your responses.
Last night was bad, mostly because I had severe lower gut spasms for a while. I've bounced back now after a lie in but going to take it easy today, I have a busy day tomorrow and still working.
I've realised that I am going to have to be more careful with eating. I can swallow OK but my tummy is sensitive and I had a nasty dose of hiccups at times yesterday. Food has to be little and often and my wife has bought in additional supplementary foods. I have Fortysips but they can be quite heavy.
How is everyone else?
Mark, my stomach was buggered when I was first diagnosed and extremely sensitive. If you read my profile I explain what worked for me, but the main thing I did was reduce the acid in my diet as that was causing my reflux. I found avoiding tomatoes, fried food, caffeine(switch to decaf tea) chillies, acids fruits and alchol really helped.
Have you started treatment yet? My stomach settled down a lot after starting
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