Heartburn, reflux, indigestion, and repeated burping can be difficult to explain from memory. A short record helps show whether symptoms are rare, clustered around certain meals, happening at night, or changing over time while you are using a GLP-1 medicine.
Use the words that fit the experience. You might write "burning behind the breastbone," "acid taste," "food coming back up," "upper stomach discomfort," or "burping after meals." Do not worry about choosing a medical label. Your prescriber can interpret the pattern with your history and medicine details.
For each episode, note the time, what was happening beforehand, and whether it followed a meal, lying down, exercise, travel, stress, alcohol, or a different routine. Meal size and timing can be useful context, but they are not proof of cause and should not become rules you impose on yourself from one entry.
Also record impact. Did symptoms wake you, stop you eating, make drinking uncomfortable, or come with nausea, vomiting, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, or abdominal pain? A symptom that is mild but frequent may need a different conversation from one severe episode.
Speak to your prescriber, pharmacist, or another qualified healthcare professional if reflux-like symptoms are persistent, severe, worsening, or interfering with food, fluids, sleep, or daily life. Seek urgent help for severe chest pain, severe persistent abdominal pain, trouble breathing, or symptoms that feel sudden or serious.