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Elaine McCray thought she’d be living with pain for the rest of her life. She’d had GERD (short for gastroesophageal reflux disease) for 15 years. It had caused burning and stabbing pains in her chest, difficulty swallowing, hoarseness, and a gurgling in her throat.

“After all these years of taking all of these different medications and changing my eating habits, nothing got better,” she says.

The pain was so intense at times that it landed her in the emergency room. “One time I was supposed to get on a plane but didn’t because I was balled up on the floorboard of my husband’s truck on the way to the airport,” she remembers. “He said, ‘There’s no way I can let you get on a plane like this.’”

Unfortunately, Elaine’s condition wasn’t properly diagnosed and treated by doctors in Nebraska, where she lived at the time. They gave Elaine a range of medications that weren’t ideal for long-term use and came with many different side effects.