Sliding Hiatus Hernia

How common is it to be diagnosed with Acid Reflux (GERD) when one was diagnosed with a sliding hiatus hernia?  I was diagnosed with the hiatus hernia yesterday when I had an upper endoscopy and my GI doctor took biopsies to check for GERD, celiac disease and some other things.  I was just wondering how common it is to have a hiatus hernia and also GERD or to have GERD and also a hiatus hernia.

For the past few months before my endoscopy I have been taking PPI's (Somac) prescribed by my regular doctor for heartburn and nausea symptoms, which he believed was from acid reflux, but guess we have to wait until I get my biopsy results back next week.

[jo18]

HI
  i was diagnosed of hiatus hernia. It seems to be no cure. Except just insure it won't occur again by doing some preventions like no smoking, lifting, chocolates and caffeine.
The danger there is if not been cured it might lead to esophageal cancer. It's a wear and tear thing. It's very annoying.

[adrianw]

Hi , I had hiatus hernia and suffered badly with it ...i was on the omoprazole  and  all the other medications  but !!!!  there is one sure way of making the symptoms ease quite a lot ..I spent nearly 2 years living off plain chicken breasts and pita bread and shredded wheat ..also only drinking squash ...nothing fizzy and do not fill your stomach up ....Eventually i had a laprascopic nissen fundoplication  which left me with 5 lovely scars on my stomach "you can hardly see the scars" and  i feel a new man ....Oh ..before you have the operation  dont sleep flat "use 3/4 pillows..and for god sake dont bend over . it causes the acid to come ..

Good luck

Ade