OT: Acid Reflux

I've been looking for a naturopathic way to cure this stuff for awhile and now I think I'm having success.

Last year, my naturopath put me on 2 multivitamins and 2 blue-green algae pills at every meal. I also took DGL to enhance my stomach's abilities to line itself. A few months later I felt great!

Oh yeah. She also thought that I had problems with glutens and so I stopped eating wheat, oats and barley. That may have been a big part of it.

I got sloppy last fall. I had scotch every day, mixed glutens into my diet and stopped taking vitamins and DGL altogether. By Christmas I was in hospital with esophageal spasms. God, the heartburn was killing me.

Now I'm back on track again and feeling better. I get heartburn from time to time when I eat the wrong things, but overall I feel much better.

Try giving up grease and grains. Go with rice and veggies. Take DGL and multivitamins. Have a glass of grapefruit juice with a meal and see if that helps. Often it's low stomach acid that causes reflux when your food literally rots in your belly and you start burping it up.

Get checked out for H.Pylori. Try to find out if you are celiac or wheat or dairy intolerant. Give your stomach a chance with smaller meals and don't drink anything to dilute your stomach acid at meals, unless its grapefruit or lemon juice. (Orange juice is BAD) Work with your gut.
 
When did the reflux start? Had you just started any new medicines when the reflux appeared?
A few weeks ago I was having bad stomach trouble, including symptoms of reflux. I dropped all the meds I was taking and they put me on famotidine and Protonix. I got better quickly. Then, when I went back on the other meds, I got sick again. (In this case it was a time-release pill and they think the time-release coating might have been a problem. Another medicine that I had trouble with was minocycline.)
 
I have a sorta version of acid reflux, and I'm only 17. When I started missing school because it would cause problems in the morning I went to the doctor. My mom wasn't so sure about the whole thing because I would be fine over the weekend and on days that I knew instantly that I would stay home. We figured that it was caused by stress from school.
I havent read the whole thread but If it hasen't been said: reduce stress. Figure out what stresses you out and avoid it. If you cann't avoid it then learn to be more light hearted about it.
 
Hm. I went through a phase- after my health craze that began at 19- where very sugarey "foods", such as milkshakes would burn my throat.

My esophagus area appears to be hurting right now, but I'm hoping it's actually a muscular ache, maybe related to whatever I did to my shoulder yesterday.

John
 
I've had acid reflux for years after I took a punch in the solar plexus

I have to be very careful about what I eat and when ( after 5 I eat very little) and keep my weight down AND ( I dont want to sound silly here folks but it worked for me) just coated with black pepper part of any meal after 11:30 am.
My grandfather swore up and down to me that he had cured his ulcer with black pepper and so I tried it.
I know it sounds simplistic and probably won't work with a problem of the
magnitude of yours.
but it sure stops up a car radiator
I believe acid reflux eventually caused some of my fathers lung problems after fighting it for many years
 
I'm putting all this advice into practice. Revamping my diet and cutting out all the questionables to see if I can figure out later if there are some specific trigger foods. I'll also ask the dr for nexium this time. I've tried all the others.

Thanks so much. You guys are a wealth of advice and I think it helps coming from someone youreally know has been there.

This too shall pass :)
 
mr. martino uses. worked well for me when i needed it for about a year. nu-lev in combination with it works well too. there is a generic for nulev. you don't say if your doc is a gastro-intestinal doc. with a problem this persistant, please see a good one if you haven't. you may need endoscopy, so someone can have a look down there. i had two, and they are quite tolerable. they found bacterial ulcers, and later thru a gall bladder function test, a wonky gall bladder too. the g-i doc is the one who thought to look and find these things. in combo, they caused many different symptoms -- reflux, severe indigestion, and savage nausea and vomiting. i was repeatedly told that when severe, these ailments can mimic a heart attack pretty good too. put up with this stuff using meds, only if you have to -- after a competent person has ruled out the usual suspects.
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Mamav,

I've been on Prevacid for awhile and it seems to help (tho' it sounds like you have a worse case than I do). Have you had the blood test for the H. Pylori bacteria yet to see if you have ulcers ? Mine came back negative, so it's just a stress-related thing for me...

Thinking good thoughts for you, David
 
Acid Reflux was mentioned in this thread too plus something that worked for another forum member...

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=304987

Originally Posted by Gollnick
Doctor? Me? No. I have a Masters Degree... in Science! I'm a physicist and engineer by background.

The acid reflux thing is just something I went through myself. My doctor wanted to put me on acid-blocking drugs for the rest of my life. When I hung my head low about the price, the Pharmacist recommended that I raise the head of my bed eight inches and cut out acidic foods and beverages (such as orange juice) four hours before bed. Problem solved.
 
mackasenbach said:
I've had acid reflux for years after I took a punch in the solar plexus

I have to be very careful about what I eat and when ( after 5 I eat very little) and keep my weight down AND ( I dont want to sound silly here folks but it worked for me) just coated with black pepper part of any meal after 11:30 am.
My grandfather swore up and down to me that he had cured his ulcer with black pepper and so I tried it.
I know it sounds simplistic and probably won't work with a problem of the
magnitude of yours.
but it sure stops up a car radiator
I believe acid reflux eventually caused some of my fathers lung problems after fighting it for many years
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One of the problems with acid reflux is when it happens while sleeping. You can aspirate the acid into the lungs and this causes essentially a chemical burn. One of the reasons to keeep yourself elevated at night when sleeping. Sounds like you may have a hiatal hernia from the trauma.
 
Since your reflux is so bad, have you been checked for a hiatal hernia? That's when the muscle at your stomache opening never completely closes. It can be fixed (although, with surgery). Also, not to scare ya', but heart problems can mimic the symptoms of acid reflux. :(
 
I have gastric esophageal reflux disease so bad that sometimes my esophagus would spasm from the burning and food would not go down. I tried all the regular stuff, including tagamet, otc and prescription. At the worst, about two years ago I could expect to leave the table to toss a bite of food at least half the time. I had a barium swallow xray done, yum, good stuff, and found that I also have a hiatal (?) hernia, where part of my stomach comes up thru the diaphragm where the esophagus goes thru. That made it worse. Anyway, after six months on Protonix, I can eat steak, peanuts, anything I want and I have maybe one incident a month, mostly if I go all day without eating, or if I try to eat when I am stressed out or rushed or do something else stupid.

I cannot say enough good stuff about Protonix, except to say that I recommended it to my mother who is 75 and has had the same problems for over 50 years and she loves it too.

Oh, do not even think about using antacids, they neutralize the acid in your stomach all right, and then your stomach says, "hey we're out of acid down here, put in a rush order for more acid".

Good luck, and don't mess with this stuff, get a good doctor and insist that he check it out and fix it, constant acid on the tissue in the esophagus can cause cancer, it's not made to stand up to that.
 
Well, it's back in for the endoscopy and get the esophagus stretched out to start with. Then while they are there hopefully they will check for the other stuff. Changed my meds to aciphex. It helped before. So I'm hoping to have a little relief for now. Procedure to be on the 22nd. Now to find someone to drive me to and from the hospital.....they won't let me drive home afterwards....imagine that. ...I'd probably drive better than without the anesthetic :D :eek: :rolleyes:
 
Try a nice cold Budweiser. An over-the-counter drug available any local tavern near you. Helps settle the tummy, me thinks. :p
 
Some of the organic, soy-based protein powder &/or a product called "Greens First" in the blender with yogurt works for some of us. Also, McCanns Steel Cut Oats are natural, & have really helped me & several others I know.
 
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