- ETOH
- Smoking
- Caffeine
- Chocolate
- Mint
- Pregnancy
- Hiatal hernia
- Associated with obesity
- Rarely: scleroderma, mixed connective tissue d/o, other autoimmune dz
- Chronic/recurrent burning type pain
- Often worse after meals
- Worse if lie down after eating
- Bad taste in mouth
- Radiates up from epigastrium, nausea, sometimes vomiting
- Extraesophageal sx→ cough, wheezing, laryngitis
- May have black stools (if significant bleeding) and guaiac +