GERD!! Please Help , I Cant Take It Anymore

Hey people

Im feeling better so far. Not 100% but better. Lost 3 pounds first week on herbal magic and really good foods for a change. I bought a sunbeam hotsteam Vapourizer. I used it last night and I woke up at first kinda feeling crapy like my nose was stuff and breathing was crap again but then I actually felt better. Today has been my best day in like 30 days. So I got some liquid vic for it and im gonna try it tonight. So if anybody has trouble breathing when they sleep I would get one. I got it at canadian tire was 20$. The vic stuff was 10$. I have quit drinking pop now too. Just water and sugar free juice. Soon has I drink pop now, anybody I feel liek I can blurp 100 times.

aeshleyrose, stay positive. Why cant you work out? Tell me your story. Are you on any Meds? What kind a pain etc..? Take care and Be strong Miss Rose.  I wanna help you

Post Edited (Baldwin2011) : 7/26/2011 2:42:28 PM (GMT-6)

I wrote this about a month ago

  

Now  one day I feel okay once I get moving around and the next I feel brutal.  I started getting light headed now. still dont feel 100%. Sometimes I real kinda sick.  I cant take this anymore.  Im ready to lose it.

I just have been looking at other possiable things and maybe could it be Hernia?? Im going back to the doctors this week.  Im getting so tired of this.

 Baldwin Posted Today 6:00 PM

Couchtater  Posted Today 6:49 PM (GMT -6)     

 

Most hiatial hernias do not hurt unless severely large.

A large hiatial hernia hurts and feels like the food sticks behind the breast bone. I would almost blackout from the pain.
The lightheadness is from the vegus nerve being irritated by the gerd.

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Joy

k.bradys, Welcome. I didn't see your post. Was it independent or attached to another thread? New people can get lost sometimes if they introduce in the middle of an active thread.
I don't believe you can avoid another endoscopy with the barretts diagnosis and new burning. Please see your doctor your barretts might have spread.

Ps. You might want to remove your email from your post and put it in your profile so spammer done mess with you. Members can still email you under that.

Hey Steve, sorry man! I didn't see your reply.

I love to run, but the bouncing makes the LES open and acid splashes back into the esophagus. It's been said that you shouldn't eat for three hours before you do any type of jarring exercise (walking, running, stair climbing) but I find that makes me very dizzy as I think my blood sugar is pretty low then. I'm still trying! I can work to tone myself, but nothing makes weight come off like cardio, in my humble opinion. I'm still seeing if maybe I had something super bland, like cream of wheat or oatmeal with some protein powder, my tummy wouldn't get mad.

Also, I am on Nexium 40mg/day. I was given it when this first started (about 4 months ago) and it worked like a charm for the two weeks the doc prescribed. When it ended, the GERD started again so I self-medicated with Somac (pantoprazol) which also worked for me, but when I went back to the doc he gave me this 40mg/day Nexium for 6 months. It's been about 7 weeks now, I definitely don't have actual stay-up-all-night reflux, but I have what others have called 'silent heartburn' where I always feel like I'm about to have it. It's very strange. I'll make a doc's appt August 1 (as all health stations in Finland are closed the entire month of July - crazy Finns!).

How are you doing bud? Eager to hear anything that works for you.

Ashley

Darryl said...
Hey Baldwin,

I never had asthma - put since trying PPI's, I was also having difficulty breathing, couldn't swallow, had phlegm in my throat that seemed impossible to get out, and always try!

Doc said I was making it all up! So glad to hear I'm not the only one and that it's not all in my head. Yes, it stopped the acid, and that was great. It's just that there were too many other side effects that came along with it. Not to mention that they believe it could lead to severe osteoporosis! I know someone that's broken three bones in two years with casual common bumps!

Anyway, I think I'm going for the op in about a month. I also suffer from choking awake, not being able to breathe and not knowing what's going on when that happens. It makes one extremeley anxious, and even scared to go sleep at night. If I feel acid, I opt for vomiting it out before falling asleep. Not a way to live!

Doc says I have a Hiatal hernia and weak LES because of it. So its free flow for food in the system, up or down! So it's a mechanical problem, and the only way they are gonna fix it, permanantly, is surgery I guess. Cant' always treat the symptoms on long term basis.

So how is it going? You been to the ENT specialist, or gastroenterologist?

I don't wnat someone to opperate on me, but I've been battling so long now, I just want some relief!

Good luck bud.

Darryl

Hey  Darryl. How are you feeling today man. That pllegm I also had in my lungs and throat. That was brutal. Glad to hear somebody that sounds like thewhat I have done through.    Did you ever have sinus problems?   Its felt liek I had an infection in my lungs and throat, the  into my nose and now its into my head. My eyes feel weird now and I kinda feel dizzy sometimes.  I dont get hurt burn now but have been feeling like death for after a month now.  I cant go out and have fun anymore cause Im do scared of passing out or not being able to breathe etc.. Cant go on dates now.  Im booked to see a gastroenterologist on Oct 17th.  Seems like there on in a rush to help me.  I also alwasy feel like my mouth is nasty. dry but also gross I think from the acid and stuff.  But Im just learning to leave with it.  Im taking tekca something like that for GERD but now I dont get heartburn but I get all the systoms of sereve GERD. My breathing is better for now but you know it can turn any time. My nose is better too.  Im getting depressed. My friend rented out a bar tonight, they have a band and my one buddy is going to austriala for 2 plus years and I cant go cause of this. You cant explain to them about it cause they will call you a baby but GERD is a really bad thing man. I hate it. Im afraid too that they might say to me if they find something that they will have to do surgery too. But I will do it to stop this from ruin my life.

 

sorry for the speeling eras     TTYL  Stevey B

 

 

 

 

 

 

halloweenbaby said...
Hi there. I'm new here as well and posted my introduction and story just yesterday. I think the MOST important thing we all need to realize is that we are not unique. GERD didn't just jump up and become a reality in you or me or anyone else posting here and that was the first time anyone ever felt the way you describe.I get those same feelings and worries about "maybe I'm the only one" but I know better.

You're young and have your whole life ahead of you. I had the same symptoms you have when I was your age and there was not an awful lot that could be done about them that would give any real relief. Gaviscon and Pepto Bismol just don't cut it, my friend.

You can do all the good things everyone above suggested you do and they will help relieve your symptoms. What I wish someone had told me to do 10 years ago was to get to the real root of the problem and deal with the cause - not just with the symptoms. Kind of like your basement being flooded and you install a pump to remove the standing water instead of fixing the leak. Does that make sense? I hope so.

I've been running "the pump" for way too many years even under the supervision of some very good doctors. I'm not a complainer so I bucked up and treated the symptoms and now I'm looking at the surgery to stop the problem. I'm getting help to repair the leak.

You may not be to that point yet but my reflux/gerd was terrible in my 20's and if I had my life to live over again and could have Nissen Fundiplocation or one of its cousins I'd be inline to get it.

Try to relax even though it's hard. The panic attacks will take your sanity away if you let them. Don't let them!
I may be new here too but I know exactly what you're going through.

Carpe Diem

 

How are you feeling now after your Nissen Fundiplocation ?  Do you feel alot better?

 

Take Care steve

and I go see the gastro doctor Oct 17th. Even If i feel 100% and right back to normal Im still going. I have never felt so crappy and useless in my life cause of GED and 90% of the people I know have no clue what it is. Everybody thinks it heartburn but I dont get heartburn anymore.

Hi Steve,

Yeah - I think you need to get these things sorted!! If not now, then you will have to do it later sometime. That's what I've realised. It always comes back, so all we do is prolong the suffering and problems. I am now officially at peace with the idea of myself going for the operation. Even looking forward to the idea that my life will return to "normal". Spoken to so many people that are so happy with having done it. I want to be among that group!
It is wrong to think one HAS to stick to ALL the rules forever after. Don't dont this or that. Everyday worrying wont you put into your throat, stress about it constantly! Take pills forever merely to treat the symptoms, thus having to live with the problem always.

Nah! Me - I'm a gonna be moving forward. Boldly to the place where they put a knife in me. Hah, so exciting. NOT, I am s**t scared about the whole thing. Haven't been in a hospital since I was 5, a whole 30 years ago. So more than a little anxious about it, but try not to think about it till that day comes. Haven't set a dat yet, but it looks like the first week back in September after my Cousins wedding. (Another miserable event for a non eating drinking me!).

Recovery wont be call either, but hey. Looking forward to eating a pizza! Having a glass of wine. Eating a choc chip cookie. Toast with straberry jam. Not stressing all day about what I'm going to eat.

I want to enjoy the simple things in life. It should be my choice to make - so bring on the knife!

Darryl