I went through the whole song and dance with that shit, man. All kinds of tests, procedures, invasive monitoring. The works. I've got more pictures of my esophagus than some people have of their children.

Best things I ever did were:

1) Cutting down on alcohol and ESPECIALLY hard liquor. Honestly, this made the most difference. I was destroying my stomach with that booze. Now that I leave it alone most of the time and try to stick to beer when I do drink, its so much better.

2) Dexilant. Fuck all those other pills, they were all worthless. But Dexilant, a fairly new pill, really worked. After a couple days of taking it I felt so much better. After a couple months of taking it my esophagus had healed to the point that I was able to stop and maintain a healthy diet. Now I keep a bottle in case of flare-ups, but haven't had any.

3) Gaviscon. If I ever get a flare-up, which usually happens when I wake up in the morning, I tip back a bit of that and it neutralizes it right away. As long as you don't let it sit there and erode your throat, you won't have any lasting damage that needs to be repaired. And your stomach producing the excess acid and letting it into your throat is actually a symptom of pre-existing damage to your throat due to acid reflux. Its a self-perpetuating condition.


Using that method, I'm able to eat damn near anything I want, with the exception of french fries. Which is fine, because I never really liked them anyways.

 

It's one extra click, but it'll have to do. Thanks for your concern.

 

good info on that! i'm going to write these down and take them to my doctor. theyve been wanting me to go to a stomach specialist for months now and i havent done so (which i need to do). i cut down alcohol almost to a minimum and drink maybe once a month and usually its beer at that. its my dieting that i need to do and not eating so much damn junk food, spicy shit. i love hot and spicy things and the worse thing to do is eat it before bed, which i do all the time. plus all the fucking junk food. i really need to go to the doctors due to me never being hungry.. which some people would be like o thats not bad, but when i dont eat breakfast, lunch, and for dinner i have maybe a half a chicken breast before i'm full is not good. i intake maybe half a chicken boobie a day and the rest is junk food right before i go to bed. the only thing that makes me hungry and eat is getting -_- and then i'll cook up a storm of dinner if i do it right when i get off from work, and why i like getting -_- that is one of the main reasons i do it, to eat.

hey you list here! i hear from people all day at work "thats to many clicks for what i want to do" and my though is instead of bitching about it, you could of fucking proceeded with that 1 more extra click! ARRRRRRRG

 

No problem, if you have any other questions I'll answer anything I can based on whats helped me.

Eating before bed is another HUGE no-no. At least while you're healing, try to go as long as possible without eating before bed. 3 or 4 hours if possible. But as long as you give yourself a good 2 hours or so it should be okay.

I had an Endoscopy, it sucked but whatever. Then I had another, they call it an Endoscopy w/Bravo. If they suggest that, just be forewarned that it hurts like hell. Feels like heartburn x5 for the first couple days, then just a nagging pain until the damn thing falls off. It SUCKS.


You may have different trigger foods than I do, but for the time being bland is key. No junk, no sodas, no caffeine, no spicy foods. Bland, bland, bland. To the point that you should try to opt for low sodium turkey on your sandwiches. Oh, they gave me this stuff called Carafate to take in the morning and before bed. Its cheap and lasts for a long time before going bad. I've still got two big bottles of it. Works best for bed, because it coats your esophagus and helps it resist the acid while you're horizontal and sleeping.

Once you've healed the damage the symptoms lessen a lot and you'll find it relatively easy to manage. But you've got to really tackle the problem hard in order to heal the damage.

 

Way to double post. Stupid fucking newb ass admins.....

 

stupid ass tether sometimes hiccups!

 

Hey, I was being grateful!

 

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