How does gastroesophageal reflux affect a person’s lifestyle or quality of life?

GERD is something that can take over your life sometimes. GERD can interrupt your sleep, it can force you to eat things or not eat things that you otherwise would like to. It can force you to eat at certain times of the day and not at others. There are quality-of-life tests that show that patients that suffer from GERD have a pretty poor quality of life.