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Acid reflux
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Nexium worked best for me, Prilosec didn't help
me much, didn't like the cost, when I was done with the bottle I didn't take anything, for the most part and I am fine but can have a flare up. For me I know if I eat a certain food I can expect its
Diet is usually the #1 problem but not always, and what are some people suppose to do? Eat like rabbit the rest of their lives?
me much, didn't like the cost, when I was done with the bottle I didn't take anything, for the most part and I am fine but can have a flare up. For me I know if I eat a certain food I can expect its
Diet is usually the #1 problem but not always, and what are some people suppose to do? Eat like rabbit the rest of their lives?
I develop rings in my esophagus to the point where I can't eat.....they are common and called "Slotchsky's rings" ....they can get them out by shoving an endoscope down there and inflating a balloon......the gastro doctor told me they are from acid reflux and to take a Prilosec every day......I don't know I never had heartburn or anything.........I switched to Omeprazole because of cost and had another occurrence 4 or 5 years later.......oh well it's easy enough to fix.......no complaints here
Back in 2003 they had me on Acifex and then switched me to Nexium. Both times I had endoscopes there was never any signs of acid reflux in my esophagus or stomach but the Dr. insisted that was my problem. In 2007 I started having issues with swallowing food, water, etc (don't be a smartass lol) and I was losing weight because I couldn't eat. I went back to the same Dr. who still said there were no signs of acid reflux and to just stay on Nexium. Well I went to another hospital and got a second opinion and by the point of them diagnosing me with Achalasia I was down to 110 pounds and couldn't barely even swallow water. My skin was grey and I was taking in about 300 calories a day. I had no energy and I looked like death was approaching. When I had my surgery- a Heller Myotomy with Partial Fundoplication- they said it was the most severe case they had ever seen. They couldn't explain why I had it because I was only 31 and had no acid reflux. Took me a week to heal to a point where I could eat normal food. Then I blew up and gained 15 pounds in a few weeks because I could eat again! I can't imagine what would have happened if I wouldn't have gone on my own and gotten a second opinion. I have 5 tiny incisions barely visible anymore on my belly and I joked with the Dr. because if you connect the dots from the incisions it is an M and Dr. Motto did my surgery. It was like he was marking me since this was the most unexplained case he ever had.
4 years ago, when i had surgery for acute items related with the pancreas, liver, bloodstream infection, massive bleeding etc. etc.
the great doctors repaired 12 esophageal varices.....have not had to taken even a tums in 4 years for any reflux.
though i take other medications like nadaol as preventive..
amazing job by the surgeons keeping me alive.
not sure if worth it, but maybe a endoscopy might find any bleeding which might cause severe reflux...im no doctor though....so not sure.
best of luck with the condition you have.
the great doctors repaired 12 esophageal varices.....have not had to taken even a tums in 4 years for any reflux.
though i take other medications like nadaol as preventive..
amazing job by the surgeons keeping me alive.
not sure if worth it, but maybe a endoscopy might find any bleeding which might cause severe reflux...im no doctor though....so not sure.
best of luck with the condition you have.
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:mj07:
I do have to apologize to you. I mixed you up with rusty when I thought you didn't have a job. I thought you were an unemployed racist bigot simpleton moron. You can cross off the unemployed part. At least for now.
