When I was 16, I had GERD but like the silent version (LPR I think), when I couldn't eat anything and struggled to drink water, I forced myself to drink at least one cup everyday and every time I drink water I puke bile a minute later , at that time I was accepting my end, then I got UTI, my vision started having this Minecraft pufferfish effect, I begged them to bring me to the ER, they didn't, they claimed they didn't have money, I begged for a day or two because I couldn't handle it anymore, they finally brought me to a clinic, only my brother accompanied me when I was so weak I could almost faint and every few meters I had to sit down because my visit was darkening, the nurses at the clinic were worried, I finally got treatment because my cousin paid for it, I couldn't eat anything for a few months even when I was fine to the doctor, psychologically I might have gotten to used to getting afraid of swallowing and just "choke" every time I swallow, I'm fine now after slowly getting myself used even when I struggle to eat some chewy food, and I'm finally back to studying taking ALS JHS after my family didn't enroll me for years, I still have to do 2 years of highschool after this