If you regularly suffer from heartburn symptoms, you may not be aware that heartburn is one of many different symptoms of acid reflux and GERD. In fact, some people who suffer from acid reflux have no heartburn symptoms at all. Doctors now divide cases into ‘typical’, ‘atypical’ and ‘respiratory’, and make the diagnosis of acid reflux or GERD mainly from the mixture of symptoms that the patients present to them. Typical symptoms include, first and foremost, heartburn, defined as: “A burning feeling rising from the...