Is this really necessary?

Lately I have had this little pest in my life known as heartburn. When I was younger I had heartburn a lot and I was diagnosed with that annoying thing called acid reflux. After popping Tums like candy and eating Zantac 75 in a bowl of milk for breakfast, my parents took me to the doctor. He prescribed lots of different anti-acids for me to take and NONE of them worked. So I just lived my life with heartburn and dealt with the fact that I was choking on acid every morning when I woke up. Sometime in high school a miraculous thing happened and I no longer had acid reflux. It was heaven, I was convinced that some sort of miracle elf was forced to live inside of my throat with a plunger and every time the acid arose, he fought it back while singing Whistle While You Work. Well apparently I swallowed him or they surgically removed him with my gallbladder because it is back and it is on. Last night I was half expecting flames to come out of my throat. I probably only got one hour of sleep because if I wasn't throwing up in my mouth, I was swallowing that nasty acid and giving myself a stomach ache. This was making Shelbie extremely uneasy and she would paw at me and my blanket until I pet her and let her know that even though smoke is coming out of my mouth and I am clawing at my throat, mama is going to be alright. So does anyone have a good medicine they use? (besides alka celtzer because that causes my heart to race and when I was 12 and took one, I thought I was going to die.) If you don't come up with anything it is ok, I will either buy a fire extinguisher and keep by my bedside or one of those sink plugs and shove it down my throat.