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Good luck with your treatment. It was effective for my mother in law but she did not do the follow up treatments after her initial rounds. She has lost ground again to the depression. It was good while it lasted.
I changed my diet to help with my heartburn, lowered the caffiene intake as well as alcohol. As mentioned above, the large filling carbs too close to bedtime are bad as well. Protonix helped heal some esophogeal damage but you don't sound to have suffered from heartburn long enough to do damage. Good luck.