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Waking middle of night "starving" but food doesn't help. carafate (sucralfate) sometimes helps. take prevacid 15mg qd. increase? or take pepcid ac at night?

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Possible GERD: Many different things can cause similar symptoms of night time hunger and or heartburn like symptoms. H. Pylore infection, stress, sleep deprivation, drug side effect like nsaids, , anixiety, excess caffeine, hot food , constipation, irregular bm etc . Try to find a trigger. Pepcid (famotidine) ac can be tried. If symptoms persist need to see doc.

Answered 9/28/2016

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