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About six years ago I experienced horrible chest pain that was so severe and sudden that I was literally reduced to being in the fetal position for about an hour until it subsided. I really thought I was having a heart attack. I ended up meeting my doctor at the emergency room and he admitted me and ran all kinds of heart tests. My heart turned out to be in awesome shape, so I went on with my life until about a month later I had the same kind of horribly painful episode.

At that point, my doctor decided to run some tests on my esophagus and it turned out that I have GERD and a condition called Shatzki Ring. I had an endoscopy where my esophagus was widened a little and then I was put on Nexium. In the past six years, I've occasionally had minor symptoms, like difficulty swallowing, and only when I'm under a lot of stress or if I'm not getting enough sleep. I'm so glad that this was caught while I'm relatively young because I have a couple of relatives in my family who have suffered from esophageal cancer. I've learned that this runs very prevalently in my family.