GERD - PART IV

Sew: your Zantac 300mg, is it from your doctor? I bought mine over the counter and it is 150mg. I still take it before bed. Did you try Fast Track Diet?

Gail: I am glad it's over for you. You sound much better. Have a good rest.

Nat: Did you eat anything that trigger it? It could be your hormone too. Are you still taking HRT?

Chris: How do you take the Manuka honey? I bought mine from the health food store. It costs me $15.99 for a little jar. Are you taking digestive enzyme too?

Viv: I was fine and dandy one day and the next day, bad stomach pains and heartburn...that so far has lasted a week. Today was the first day I actually started to feel a little relief. As for the food, anything could have triggered it. I've been eating alot of "bad" foods lately. No, im not on HRT. I thought it might be hormones or part of PMS. I looked back at my diary and it's interesting that every time I have a bad heartburn episode, it occurs right around the time my menstruation.

Roah, the test was done through blood.  She pricked my finger and got three separate drops of blood onto some special paper.  Then it was sent off to a lab.  I have no idea the science behind it.

Alan, welcome.  I have not heard someone get an endoscopy done without sedation. 

Roah, ahh that's sweet of you.  I feel the same way.  You guys have been priceless.

You know, I don't know how to answer when people ask me how am I doing. 

There are stretches where I feel better than I have in the last three months.  But in the same day, I have energy crashes (usually after a meal or around late afternoon), where I feel extremely tired (which causes a lot of anxiety).  Also, since going off the ppi, i am getting pretty bad heartburn in between meals.  Actually, I have no idea if it's heartburn or not since I kind of never experienced it before.  If I could described it, it feels warm in the lower abdomen and the slightest stinging, kind of like how your skin feels when the sun is shining directly on you on a hot day.  Sorry for the long answer but it's good and bad at the same time. LOL.

Sew, that's the exact reason why I went off the ppi.  My new diet consists more of protein, fat and complex carb which is much harder to digest than white rice and breads.  So it just didn't make sense to me that the low stomach acid could be compatible with this kind of diet.

Roah, yeah I remember. When you first came on this board, you were complaining of heartburn caused by ppi and how you never had heartburn before the ppi.

So are you off the ppi's now? How long were you on it and how long have you been off of it? How long did it take for the heartburn to go away after discontinuing with the ppis?

Hi everyone,

Happy Mothers Day to all you Mom's!  ;)

I need some advice.  After I had the Endo and the Colon on Friday, I do not remember anything they may have told me as I was still on drugs!  the paper they gave me says I have severe stomach inflammation, polups here and there,

there were also polups inside my stomach I guess....no diagnosis on the paper, but gave me directions for dealing with gerd.........now you guys all know that I don't have the symptoms of gerd, but like I said I did not hear what they might have "said"?????........anyway, they gave me a rx for zantac 150.  I used zantac 2 months ago otc that never really helped me.  I need to talk to my real doctor tomorrow, but in the mean time, can you guys tell me if you have used a antacid otc that may help the stomach inflammation???? or should I call the pharmacy and ask?   I have gaviscon here, and some liquid similar to Mylanta.  I took the zantac yesterday and all it does is make me feel like strange in my gut, almost like a lump sitting there?????

Alan, how did you Endo go?   They gave me lanacaine before mine, I also was almost out, so don't remember a thing about it.  thank God.

Happy Mother's Day as well.

Gail, I found the best thing for the inflammation is liquid carafate just once or twice a day for about a month +/-. Mylanta and Peptobismol do the same thing, but I don't think that can be taken as long term. To me carafate is the gold standard for speeding up the healing of that inflammation. -- Have you tried one of the other h2 blockers, like Tagament. I think famotadine is the generic. There is at least one more. All of the ppi's didn't work for me. Maybe another h2 blocker would help. Talk to your pharmacist about the different ones.

Alan, welcome. You may need to try the low carb diet others are finding success with. There is a whole thread devoted to the Fast Track diet. Ae you doing other things, like raising the head of your bed up, not eating 4 hours before going to bed, things like that may help some. I hope you get some answers after your endo.

Roah, you are so sweet. I appreciate all the support you provide. It is nice to have some place to come and just talk about the daily trials and tribulations.

Viv, I am hoping that if I can add fat back to my diet I might be able to gain weight or just not lose. I really can't be on a weight loss diet at all.

Hope everyone is doing well. I did go ahead and reduce my Zantac last night and this morning, so I am now basically on 300 mg of Zantac a day. I have needed a little extra antacid, but it's definitely do-able. I even drank a little wine at lunch. Of course, it's a little early to tell if I will pay for that or not. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Post Edited (sewfun) : 5/12/2013 12:58:23 PM (GMT-6)

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!! Today was a great day for me. Got to spend it with my kids & family and ate Japanese food then Baskin Robbins for desert. Hope everyone else had a great time.
Gail: did they give you pictures of your endoscopy. Usually they give you paperwork upon discharge and has pictures of your stomach & esophugus. It also has the peliminarly results of their findings. Mine indicated there were polyps and that biopsies were being done. Does the severe inflammation mean you have gastritis?

Gail, doctors just don't understand, do they? We want to know what's going on. They think just because it's a routine case (for them at least), they don't take the time to explain things in detail. They don't appreciate the anxiety and worrying we have. I will say that in most cases, if explanation is lacking, the doctors do not think what they saw is a big deal so I don't know if there is some good news in there or not.

Man, today is the sixth day of getting off of Aciphex. I think rebound is happening. Lots of heartburn.

Greetings!

Gail, have you talked with your doc today? He most likely won't know any results, but should definitely be able to tell you what he saw and explain while you are lucid.

Viv, I am on day 3 of taking 150 mg Zantac am and pm. It was nip and tuck the first couple of days, but today I have not needed any additional antacids. I'm not on Fast Track, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to eat low carb anyway. It kind of has me wondering what the difference between Fast Track's low carb diet and any other low carb diet.

Chris, I hope your rebound has not gotten too bad. You hopefully will not have it like I did since you haven't been on the ppi's for too long. I'm still having rebound 4 weeks out while I reduce the Zantac.

Nat, glad you were able to have a good Mother's Day! I did in fact indulge in some wine with little trouble. It was worth popping a couple of Tums for.

Roah, your appt day is almost here.

Chris, I was on Prevacid and generic prevacid 30 mg 2x's a day starting in May 2011. I started weaning January 2013, and got completely off of it last month. I definitely think my diet can be contributing to some of the rebound. Hopefully I will be off the Zantac soon!

Hello all,
Sew: Since I cut down the carbs, I am a bit constipated. Now I have craving of sugar badly! I am doing good these days. I don't feel lump anymore in my throat. I try to take Zantac every other day and so far so good. I am on 150mg only at night. You are making good progress. I have no idea what the difference between Fast Tract and the other low carb diet.

Chris: are you still going to the naturopath doctor? Are the herbs helping? I hope you get over the rebound soon. I had it bad too at one time at the beginning.

Gail: Hope you get some answers from your doctor today.

Roah: are you doing OK?

Nat, Will: hope you are doing better.

OK, where is everyone?????

What has happened to EJ?........I talked to the Dr.'s office today and they called me in Pepcid, I just took it about an hour ago, so don't know if it will br any different than the zantac.??

all I know is zantac doesn't seem to help at all.

I wonder if any of these things are right for me now???

Had a bad morning today after I made smoothie, I added some powdered milk cream with the usual stuff and I had a horrible stomach ache after.  too rich  I think.

I am getting so tired of trying to eat and having a ache all the time!

maybe I should have taken the PPI's ?????