Heartburn

I have a tendency to get bad heartburn, and have for years. It's been all checked out and isn't acid reflux, just recurring heartburn. (It started when I had a drug-induced ulcer in my teens.)

I've been on most prescriptions at one time or another, and tried almost every over-the-counter solution. I can't find anything that reliably works and that I can actually stomach. (TMI alert: Things like Gaviscon and Tums don't work because they make me gag so much I can't keep them down long enough to be effective.)

Now I tend to just sip soda water with some baking soda in it. Unfortunately, today I have neither and can't get to a store to pick some up.

Does anybody have home cures that are any good? I did a quick Google, but I'd rather try something that somebody else has had success with.

Peppermint tea?  The herbal kind, not the flavored black kind. 

Try cutting all the fat out of your diet.  That really worked for me.

I had pretty bad heartburn when I was pregnant and could only take Gaviscon or Peptac. They make me gag pretty badly, too, but I found that if I slammed down a couple swallows of cold water immediately after, I kept it down pretty well. Eventually, I got used to the stuff and didn't need the water so much.