Does anyone know anything about Acid Reflux?

Ronan btw you elevate the head of the bed by putting bricks under the two bedposts at the head - just a slight elevation does the trick

I still have this, it sucks, I don't take care of it unless I'm at work/on tour, the amount of health problems that start stacking up at one point if you've always treated yourself rather roughly is exactly as intense as they always said it'd be

see I haven't had this burning awful pain y'all are describing, but the ENT doc said this can happen w/out even noticeable heartburn.

OIn the bright side, my bed elevation was askew to begin with.

No actually Jed I must give it a go. Kind of one of those things I've been meaning to try out. I've been drinking Aloe Vera juice (mixed with water or normal juice) a bit lately, that seems to have helped me feel a little better, though can't be sure.

It's weird with me, reflux seems part of other probs, I don't often get that mad painful form of it, but I do find myself swallowing mucus/acid fucking incessantly, like until my throat is just fucked. Constant frog in throat etc.

I only have two bricks is my problem for bed elevation! Where do I rob some bricks? (I also need to elevate my monitors, to avoid bass reflux affecting neighbours)

fuck a gerd, seriously

I prefer to think of it as "the gerd." As in, "I need to be careful what I eat today. I have a touch of the gerd."

I had an attack of this yesterday and again this morning, disallowing me from finishing breakfast. Extreme, frightening pain in my neck, throat, and lower sinuses that there seems to be no stopping once it's started. Nothing to do but sit there and experience the unique sensation of my esophagus being burned away by stomach acid, as my mouth waters uncontrollably, my sinuses drip desperately, and tears roll down my face. Good times.

most the meds for this are over the counter now

nexium still beats all tho

I take one prilosec (otc) every morning and my heart burn is gone

i used to get this when i was a kid/teenager. i didn't really know what it was or that i could just like take a tums and it would go away. I would just lay there awake half the night thinking i was dying.

I used to get this ALL the time. It was undoubtedly caused by the extremely poor diet during law school, the excessive consumption of beer and my smoking.

All of which have been changed, so my Acid Reflux ain't around no mo'.

fucking hell

when will I learn not to gorge myself on Cape Verdian food the night before a concert

A couple weeks ago I downed a humungous coffee then minutes later had this crippling tight pain all in my chest, sides, upper back - nothing helped. It eventually went away after 15 mins but came back a couple of days later for longer. I was wondering if this was anything to do with acid reflux or would I have had some pain in my throat etc? I've never really known what's meant by "heartburn".

FUCK THIS SHIT. I have felt like I have a piece of food stuck in my throat on and off for days, I'm burpy, bloated and feel like I ate corks. And I didnt bring any Zantac to work. :(

Wahhhhh.

I should know better than to eat large meals. It always does me in.

Here we go again. Actually lately it hasnt bugged me much, but when it occasioally does, its that full on "I'm having a heart attack oh my god" stabby rocks pain. Like today. Ow.

And the Zantac's doing arse all... WHYYY. God. I knew I ate too much rice.

hi thread

my ENT thinks i have this so i'm going a month without eating any good food and taking prilosec every night. it seems to have gotten worse, tho i haven't gone all in on the diet at all ("i'll start tomorrow"...). still apparently the prilosec should be doing something by now. everyone else seems to take it in the morning, not sure why i'm supposed to take it at night

and i seem to have it similar to a few people here, where there's no heartburn or pain or really any symptoms other than a feeling of liquid rising in the throat. until my ENT handed me the GERD pamphlet i was certain i had been experiencing swelling. that's all it feels like. went to my GI this morning to talk about it and my enduring intestinal issues and he seemed annoyed at how often ENTs jump to GERD when there are other reasons for it. i hope he's onto something bc i don't think i'll always be able to afford pills and i also don't think it's humanly possible for me to cut out coffee. if it comes down to it i just might deal with having the frog-in-throat feeling all the time, but mention of esophageal cancer itt has me worried

afaik you are supposed to be taking it in the morning!

everybody's talkin about the gerd, gerd gerd gerd, gerd is the werd etc

diagnosed with gerd a week ago, have been taking prilosec since last Tuesday, and have been trying to hit the diet pretty hard wherever I can. have scaled back my coffee intake considerably, dialed back to one small single shot latte with 2% milk which I don't have til after lunch or when I finish work, instead of first thing in the morning.
prilosec seems to have kicked in now, I am finally able to sleep through the night, and I'm not feeling food-pregnant when I wake up.

timing of this whole lifestyle change was pretty terrible though -- this weekend I went to a concert and then a tailgate the following day, a weekend which would normally be wall-to-wall booze. I was unprepared, at least on Saturday night, for how much it suuuuuuuuuucked to be the person choosing to be sober when every single one of your friends is drinking. tailgating on sunday was easier, it didn't gnaw at my brain so much.

biggest downside so far (sry for tmi) - fucking prilosec made me constipated as a motherfucker. it's stressful to have to not only figure out my diet for reflux but to also figure out okay where can I add more fiber gah. hello psyllium my old friend

might not be prilosec! gerd is often connected to intestinal/bowel issues (HIIIIIIIIIIIII)

ugh

yeah but since I started prilosec on Tuesday and was constipated by Friday, I'm kiiinda thinking prilosec in this case

might be worth it to try out zantac

I took the slow-release prilosec & it was great for the 3 or 4 months or however long

but I got a bit weirded out by a lot of the things I was reading about how it can have long-term adverse affects on your stomach if you take it for too long

Now that I'm off it I'm pretty much back in gerd world...I got lazy and it flared up again recently. But now I'm torn between going back on prilosec again, or trying to ride it out with diet changes etc.

idk

My purely uninformed opinion, based on general principles but not on experience, would be to try to control the gerd primarily with diet, but allow myself to rely on Prilosec on occasions when that approach is too difficult. This should solve the 'long term use' problem without removing the Prilosec as a tool in your toolbox.

that's a good compromise imo

it sends you into really crazy reflux relapse when you stop taking it but you should return to whatever "normal" is for you after a couple weeks apparently

gerdwerld

There's an immediate-dose form of Prilosec, as opposed to the slow release form, which maybe would be more adaptable to one-time use without blowback?

ugh fuck this shit

you get to eat all the tums you want

i take prilosec every day but i had a flare-up today. i think i had too much coffee, it being national coffee day and all.

i took an anti-nausea pill to stop the food from coming back up, but i still feel gross.

I have this terribly and I'm a major skeptic of natural remedy but it's a) no coffee no booze (oolong if you need it) b) 1 Tb manuka honey unheated undiluted twice daily, and it works it works for three friends who've had it and also myself

i mean good for them/you but there are so many things that trigger reflux and they're all delicious and there's no point in living without them

successfully knocked out booze

getting rid of morning coffee & subbing it with small slightly weaker latte after lunch has worked well

roobios turned out to be a great tea sub for my mornings, thx to fgti for that tip :)

I don't understand non-discipline w food and drink. Bf was diagnosed with high blood pressure at age 27 and his doctor said "no more bacon" and he said "I'd rather die than live without bacon" and I've been teasing him about that ever since. Manuka honey tho, expensive enough to raise an eyebrow but it works, just don't put it in tea, eat it raw

I recommended rooibos? Really? I find rooibos so tasteless and dull that I took all te rooibos in the house and ground it in the coffee grinder and made stove-top espresso with it. It tasted like fragrant engine oil, not entirely undelicious

fgti, bought some manuka honey on yr recommendation (cheapest one whole foods had was $29.99, but okay). cross your fingers.

Fingers crossed and give it a week and no coffee!

I must try the honey/vinegar thing. I take pills when i need em, but really I should stop smoking - thats a real flarer-upperererer of this shit.

helping with your reflux is like reason #100 to stop smoking, yes :)

Well der ;P heh.

uggh i get this when i'm super-stressed. eating ginger candies, trying some manuka honey. idk.

1 Prilosec OTC in the morning completely alleviates heartburn. 1 24hr Nexium almost completely alleviates heartburn. But maybe you have to be the kind of person that has heartburn everyday to be taking these?

Long term side effects of treating yourself to frequent heartburn could be bad :(

If anyone has any good ideas, plz help!

Recommend these two videos from Dr. Greger.

Proton pump inhibitors (like Prilosec) have a dark side, in that gastric acid is an important means of preventing small intestinal disbiosis.

i found prilosec is a good short term way of settling the heartburn (2 week short course then dont use it again for at least 3 months) - during the 2 weeks work on weeding out your flare up foods. once youre off the prilosec, see how you go with yr reworked diet & kinda go from there

but srsly do not be afraid to go to prilosec, it is worth it just so you can feel normalish & not stressed abt yr gut

I used to have raging acid reflux which basically disappeared once I started taking anti anxiety meds.. Im not sure if theres 100% correlation according to science(tm) but Im happy about it

I take Omeprazole once a day. Works a treat. You can buy it over the counter but luckily I get it on prescription (free as i live in a nice country)