All my life I have suffered from what my Portuguese people called agonia, loosely translated as an agony. I'm a 69 yr old female, in generally good health, only recently diagnosed with HBP controlled with atacand. Soemtimes but not always, when I eat fruit, greasy foods, even a glass of water, I experience pain at the bra line and around the back. I have only occasional heartburn but never with these symptoms. I have chest pain but mostly as described. What I do experience, and it can wake me in the night, is salivating to the point that the saliva comes pouring out of my mouth. I have to catch it in a tissue or get up and let it pour into the toilet. There is no bile. Sometimes my stomach clenches, like a big bubble needs to come up, and I burp. I have had some severe nauseau with the salivating on occassion. Very occasionally, I bring up food. My mother and brother both suffer from this same thing. This past week, I had episodes of a lot of belching after eating a beef sandwich, some broccoli salad, and watermelon, in moderate quantities. I belched for several hours afterward. The oversalivating has never been diagnosed medically. One doctor told me that the pain could be esophagitis, hiatal hernia, or gall bladder. All I know is I wake up, feel sick to my stomach and salivate excessively. And it is becoming more frequent. Need to know could this be a liver ailment? What is a fatty liver, and what is symptomatic of that condition. Thanks for your input.