Q. Several years ago I started having severe chest pains that seemed to be stress related. I went to a cardiologist, who checked me out completely and said I didn’t have any heart problems. My regular doctor then said gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) was causing my chest pains and put me on Protonix (40 milligrams a day). When that didn’t help, he moved it up to 80 milligrams a day, but I still had the chest pains.
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