Yes, you can have acid reflux and not even know it. That might surprise you. How can someone have acid reflux and not realize it? That’s a good question, but I know that it does happen.
It happened to me. It started when I started having difficulty swallowing certain foods. It’s called dysphagia. From what my doctor told me, the esophagus gets irritated from acid reflux and starts to constrict. That’s what causes the difficulty swallowing.
I never had any symptoms of the acid reflux itself, but it certainly caused me a lot of problems.