Wow, I'm just getting over a round of heartburn from eating a blizzard from Dairy Queen about 30 minutes ago. Dang that really hurt. Is heartburn genetic? My mom suffers from it quite often. For me it started when I used eat too much sometimes and go to sleep late nights and wake up choking from acid reflux. I stop eating late nights, but I notice when I eat chinese, fast foods, or sweet & junk foods, I sometimes get heartburn and sometimes I get a bad 30 minute case of heartburn. Any suggestions or remedies?

How old are you? As we get older, increasing attacks of heartburn, indigestion, reflux, etc., tend to happen because our digestion becomes less efficient. One suggestion, that has REALLY helped me and my husband, is to start taking digestive enzyme supplements with at least one meal a day. As the name implies, it replaces key digestive enzymes that tend to decline over time. If you have a really bad problem, you might want to take them with every meal, but we find once a day to be enough for us.

I always find that a carb overload like you gave yourself with this blizzard is a great predictor of heartburn.  Your body just can't process all of that carbohydrate at once.   Remedy is don't eat so much junk food, and if you do, ease up on the quickly digested carbs