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Posted 9/25/2013 2:42 PM (GMT 0)

Hello all,

I'm a new member here and wanted to start off by saying that I have read a lot in this forum about what to expect and what I can do for acid reflux.

I have been on multiple PPI medications for almost 8 years always under the assumption that my body was producing too much acid and the PPI's were taking care of the problem for me. I tried to quit multiple times and experienced the rebound effect which made me think that my body was not fixed yet so I still had to be on the medication. Recently, the medication didn't seem to be working to well so instead of going back to the doctor to get put on a higher dose or change to a different one, I decided to do some research.

In my research I found out that my main problem was that originally, my body was not producing enough acid resulting in acid reflux, when I was put on the medication. I will never know since I was not properly diagnosed. Once I learned about the harmful effects of PPI's with not allowing your body to digest foods properly due to little to no acid production along with the rebound, I knew that I needed to do something. After reading many experiences from others who have experienced this, I was no longer afraid to stop taking the PPI's and dealing with the rebound.

I have now been off of PPI's for 10 days now. I cut off the PPI's cold turkey so I braced myself for the worst. The first night so far has been the worst. I don't think I have ever felt so much pain in my stomach but with all the recent research I did, I did not want to grab another pill to help out. I have to say that the first week was the hardest and now it is getting a little easier. I noticed right away that my energy levels increased, I'm assuming due to my body now properly digesting foods. I have also started taking prebiotics, probiotics, a multivitamin, DGL, and mastic gum. In my research I found out that a common culprit to low stomach acid is the H. Pylori bacteria. I have found that you can have this bacteria for many years without knowing it. I have an appointment tomorrow to hopefully get tested to see if I have it. I do have some symptoms but they are also the same symptoms for GERD related issues as well.

I'm assuming that the longer you are on PPI's, the more gastrin builds up in your body. I'm wondering how long it will take for my body to get to the normal amount of gastrin so it stops over producing acid. Right now almost every time I eat, I feel a burning sensation towards the top of my stomach but don't feel anything in my esophagus until I need to burp due to the gas buildup. I have changed my diet to consist mostly of fruits and vegetables. I get some level of heartburn with nearly every meal, no matter how large or small. I tend to eat 5-6 small meals throughout the day and leave 3-4 hours between my last meal and bedtime. I have seen that it can take anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months for the body to be done with the rebound. I'm hoping sooner than later for me. I don't want to take any more medications for this as I think I will feel much better once everything is back to normal. I will see what my doctor says tomorrow but I don't have any high hopes. I feel that a lot of doctors don't know enough about this and they tend to want to give us something to mask the symptoms instead of looking into the cause of the problem to fix it.

So far I have been taking it day by day and hoping for the best. If anyone else has made it to the end of the tunnel without any surgeries I would like to know how long you were on PPI's for and how long it took before the symptoms finally came to an end for the most part. I tend to eat a somewhat healthy diet. Mostly fresh vegetables, some canned, fresh fruits, mostly complex carbs unless it involves noodles, nothing but water to drink, and mostly chicken and fish. I do eat beef and pork but not as much as I used to. I have also started eating smaller portions of meat and filling that in with more vegetables.

Thanks,

Justin

Posted 9/25/2013 3:29 PM (GMT 0)
When I was researching on my own, I decided to see a Registered Dietician. I discussed with her all my health issues. She made one suggestion that made some sense. When some people have acid problems, it is their body's way of creating more acid, because their gut actually lacks enough acid. There are supplements one can try, if it's ok to stop the ppi for awhile. Obviously, that is between you and your doctor.

Another issue she brought up was with food intolerances. Some people can't process some foods like others. Examples would be gluten, dairy, fats, high fiber, etc. To determine that, an elimination diet would have to be followed.

I hope you find what works for you!
Posted 9/25/2013 4:00 PM (GMT 0)
It makes sense that the body would try to make more acid when it doesn't have enough to break down the foods. I think that medications mess things up and make our bodies see one thing while it is not true, which is the reason for all the side effects of medications.

I don't think I was properly diagnosed and have yet to have a doctor tell me I have GERD. The reason why I think this is because I was doing pre-deployment training in the military to go overseas and one day I started having non-stop heartburn. I went to the clinic on base and they started me on Aciphex and had me take it for 2 weeks and to do a followup. Once the 2 weeks were done the heartburn came back right away. They then gave me enough to last through my training and told me to stay on it throughout my deployment. I ended up staying on it until thinking that I needed it because of my symptoms. They didn't do any tests or anything other than ask me some questions and gave me the medication. If I would have known what I know now, the heartburn that I felt after those first 2 weeks, may have been a rebound to being on the medication.

Prior to going on the medication I rarely got heartburn and had no symptoms of GERD or LPR. I'm thinking some of the problems were due to the high carb diet I was on during my training as well as some stress involved.
Posted 9/26/2013 4:41 PM (GMT 0)
My wife and kids see a chiropractor on a regular basis so I decided to go in there and they did a thermal scan on me and it shows that there are problems with my digestive system. I figured it wouldn't hurt to have some chiropractic care done since I am already paying for a family plan and it won't cost any extra for me to start up as well. They also did some adjustments to help with a hiatal hernia in case I may have that as well.

I also went to see my doctor this morning and got set up for an endoscopy to see how things are going in my esophogous and stomach and check for bacteria. It will be nice to see how everything looks. I guess for now it's just a waiting game and keeping up with my new diet. Since normal medicine hasn't helped my problems I'm hoping these other things I'm doing will help. It would be nice to know what the source of the problem is though so I can at least have an idea of certain things I can do to help possibly get rid of the symptoms naturally.
Posted 9/26/2013 5:35 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Javery,

I too went off my protonix (almost a week now) and I seem to be doing better. Before the protonix I had been on aciphex, prilosec, nexium, etc. I have even been able to sleep with one pillow without having reflux in the middle of the night. I make sure that I eat before 6:30 pm to avoid the acid. I eat a lot of turkey...very little red meat. Vegetables...no soda, lemonade, fruit juices...mostly water. And believe it or not....hot coffee (2 cups per day). I haven't told my doctor yet about going off of the medicine but the way I look at it is...It's my body. But you can't help wonder when your sitting in front of the tv at night and this commercial comes on and says "if you've been taking %$#@* it could cause bleeding, vision problems, diabetes, etc. What would posess you to want to take that medicine in the first place. Keep us posted on how your doing off of your meds...I'm curious to see how we do!!
Posted 9/26/2013 8:48 PM (GMT 0)
I am on day 11 now and still get acid reflux but only when burping to release the gas buildup in my stomach. I was feeling a burning sensation at the top of my stomach the first week but that has stopped for the most part now. I am sleeping on a wedge right now. I find it somewhat uncomfortable and tried to sleep flat one night but woke up in pain so now I am going to raise the head of the bed up so I can sleep with my body level again.

So far I have found that eating fruit after a meal helps with the acid reflux. I'm still done some experiements though until I know what the cause may be so I know which diet I choose to be on. I'm kind of hoping that it is caused by bacteria because to me that will be easy to fix.

When I see commercials with the different drugs and side effects or recalls, it makes me wonder what the doctors are saying, or more commonly, not saying, to their patients and not fully understanding the impact these drugs have on them. For me personally, I'd rather live a longer life with a little discomfort than a shorter life with zero discomfort. When I told my doctor today that I stopped my medication, she didn't freak out on me or tell me to start taking it again or anything so that is good. If it is a bacterial infection I won't go back on PPI's and take anti-biotics though. I have found other ways of treating the bacteria that have been successful for a lot of people which I would rather try that is less harmful, if not more benificial, to the body.
Posted 9/30/2013 6:36 PM (GMT 0)
I'm going on week 3 now and have found if I stick to chicken or turkey, fruits, and vegetables it keeps my acid reflux down quite a bit. My daughter had her b-day this weekend and decided to eat a little cake and that didn't go over very well. It was the first time I had tried any processed sugar type food since I stopped my medication. Tums was able to help with the acid so that was good. When on the medication if I got any acid reflux, tums didn't do anything. I believe my body still has high gastrin levels due to the rebound and hopefully they will go down in the next few weeks. I have also found out that if I have very little fruit or not the right kind of fruit, then I tend to get more acid reflux. I find that if I eat bananas with strawberries, it's not so bad. I don't want to cut out bananas though because they are a good source of carbs since I've cut back on other sources of carbs quite a bit and I don't have much room to lose any weight.
Posted 10/1/2013 12:38 AM (GMT 0)
I applaud your efforts. I was never helped completely by PPI'S, but the docs didn't seem to have any other ideas. I got off meds using the Fast Tract diet. Sounds like you are already eating low carb. This diet enables you to eat more easily digested carbs, in addition to fats and protein and vegetables. I wish you well. They seem to be finding more and more long term risks associated with PPI'S. I'm so glad I am off them. I just take a couple of TUMS daily when needed.
Posted 10/1/2013 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Javery,

I'm glad your finding out which foods work for you! I'm still off the protonix...almost two weeks...and my energy also has come back. I made a mistake the other night and ate a handful of cornchips w/iced tea....and I too was up in the middle of the night reaching for my tums. But I went straight back to sleep with only one pillow! Keep up the good work!
Barbara
Posted 10/1/2013 10:23 PM (GMT 0)
I have found that with the increase in fruit and vegetable intake that I tend to crave the bread/pasta carbs more. When I do eat those things though I stick with the 100% whole grain/wheat items for the complex carbs rather than more processed foods. I have found if I follow it up with an acidic fruit it tends to help as it seems to send a message to the body to produce less acid due to the acid in the fruit.

I find it interesting that we are still learning a lot about the human body. It is our body and we have very little control outside of diet and excersize (and medications, but you always seem to have some sort of side effect) to how it operates. It would be nice if we could control our cells to perform their tasks when we know they are not doing the right thing. Sort of like taking them off of autopilot to get them back on course.
Posted 10/7/2013 4:50 PM (GMT 0)
I am now going into week 3 of being off of PPIs and my symptoms are still diminishing. I ate a flatbread pizza this weekend and had a little acid reflux about 1.5 hours after eating it. 2 tums and the acid went away and did not return. Other than that very little to no acid reflux. I do however still need to sleep at an incline or I wake up with some acid reflux. That part worries me because I may have a sliding hernia or my LES does not fully function correctly which in either case, could cause me to never be back to the way I was prior to the medication without surgery. I am being optomistic though in hopes that once I get closer to my gastrin levels returning to normal I won't have any problems with laying flat anymore. I have gotten used to eating 5-6 times a day. I will eat breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner, and sometimes a snack between then and bedtime depending on how far it is between dinner and bedtime. I usually try to have at least something to eat every 2-3 hours. I think that helps the most with feeling satisfied with the smaller lunch and dinner portions than I usually ate.

Other than the eating schedule, I am still taking all of the natural supplements. DGL, Mastic Gum, Pre-biotic, Pro-biotic, multi-vitamins, and an enzym during meals.
Posted 10/14/2013 1:03 PM (GMT 0)
It's now the start of week 4. It seems as though the weekends are the worse for me as it is harder to stay on my eating schedule. This last weekend wasn't too good. I went to a wedding and ate things I shouldn't have but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be so I guess that's a good thing. I have stopped taking the enzyme during meals and it hasn't affected anything so that means that my body is digesting the food just fine now so things are still getting better. I have also been testing things a little by eating a little more beef and some carbs outside of fruits and vegetables and they don't give me as much of a problem like they did in the beginning. I'm hoping that things continue to improve and hopefully within the next month or two I won't get as much heartburn or none.
Posted 10/21/2013 2:25 PM (GMT 0)
It's the start of week 5 now of being off the PPIs. Things seemd to have slowed down a bit compared to the last few weeks where things seemed like they were going quite quickly in my progression. I was getting a little tired of my meal choices so I ended up eating some things I shouldn't have this past week. In doing so, I paid very close attention as to how my body has reacted and I kept a close eye on the clock from the times I stopped eating until I started to feel some heartburn. I have noticed that in general, when I eat heavy protein or complex carb meals, I don't feel any heartburn coming on until about 1 1/2 to 2 hours after I eat, but the heartburn seems to be more intense than if I eat a lower protein/carb meal. But if I eat something immediatly after getting hearburn, it seems to subside a little.

I have also noticed that if I do not eat something to follow my new eating habits, and my stomach is empty, I tend to get heartburn. I have read somewhere that the body tends to expect food if you have certain eat habits so will then start to produce more acid during those times in anticipation of getting food. My symptoms seem to follow along those guidelines.

Although things seem to be slowing down a bit I am still taking all of the supplements thinking that they are helping at least somewhat. I did however try and sleep flat last night to test that out and was able to make it through the night and had to take 1 tums. I do not think that I am ready to do this though because I felt a bit of burning sensation at the top of the throat this morning that I haven't felt sleeping on a wedge. I have been trying to find if there are ways of strengthening the LES and found articles stating that if you strengthen the diaphram, it will in turn help with the LES so I think I may start to try that. The only exercises I have found though are breathing ones but I think I may start up with some cardio exercises and see how that does. Wind sprints seem to be a great way to build up cardio.

Another good thing I have noticed is that the gas buildup after eating has went down drastically. At the beginning of last week I was still getting a lot of gas buildup but now it seems to be much less. I hope that is a sign that my digestive track is getting back to normal by ridding more bad bacteria. I hope things continue to improve for me. If it ends up that my LES is not functioning correctly, I'd be interested in trying that endostim theropy if it ever takes off here in the states.
Posted 10/23/2013 6:27 PM (GMT 0)
I'm about halfway through week 5 off the PPIs and things are starting to seem like they are going in reverse. I've thought about how my diet has changed since the beginning and what I have come up with is that my raw vegetable and fruit consumption has gone down and my meat and whole grains has gone up. The reason for this is I started missing some of these things so I thought that if I'm not feeling as much heartburn, it couldn't hurt to eat more of these. At first it didn't affect me so much so I thought it was working good but after doing this for a few days, it's now starting to backfire.

Because of this I started searching for other alternatives. A diet consisting of a lot of fruits and vegetables isn't working very good for me as I am always feeling hungry for something and eating more meats and whole grains seems to keep me satisfied but it also brings on the heartburn. I have known about the paleo diet for a while but never really looked into it. I did som research and found that one of the big things with the paleo diet is that it (in a nutshell) converts your body to turn fats and natural sugars (from fruits) into energy instead of carbs from grains. I have noticed that when eating some meats that have some fat to them, I don't get nearly as bad heartburn compared to eating a whole grain granola bar.

I have decided that I will be taking another turn in my diet and try to go down the paleo path for 30+ days to see how that works for me. I stuck to a fairly high vegetable/fruit and low meat/grain diet for a little over 30 days so this shouldn't be hard to do. I rarely eat cheese anymore and I don't drink milk or any other dairy products and I have cut out all processed sweet foods so that won't be a problem.

Here is a big reason why I believe the paleo diet will work better for me. When I eat meat, I feel satisfied. I still like vegetables and fruits and everything I buy is always fresh, not canned or frozen. Paleo diets don't restrict you to eating certain portions but I wouldn't count on eating any large portions of anything as long as I get heartburn from it. I'm also getting tired of looking at the clock and eating at certain times of the day to try and stop the heartburn by snacking between meals. I'm hoping that by cutting out the grains in my diet (since that's pretty much all I have to do to go paleo), it will help with my problems. Basically the only grains I have been eating are whole grain bars. In the past month, I've only had pasta twice. I figure that I have about another month to go before my gastrin levels are almost back to normal too so hopefully this will help with that as well.

Edit: The reason why I started eating more whole grain items is because of all the information out there that for energy, you should eat complex carbs (whole grains). There's also information everywhere to cut back on fat. The paleo diet says the opposite so I figure that I'll give it a try. 8 years of being on PPIs and eating unhealthy (usually went through 2-3 family packs of oreos a month), I figure 30 days of higher fat, lower carb diet won't hurt anything.

Post Edited (javery) : 10/23/2013 12:32:14 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 10/28/2013 12:26 PM (GMT 0)
Week 6 has started now and I have started going back towards the good path. Cutting out grain based foods has definitely helped a lot. My heartburn has went down again and the only time I tend to feel it is more on an empty stomach. I also found that pistachios tend to help with my heartburn more than other foods I have snacked on. I'm not sure if other nuts would help as well or not but I do like pistachios so I think I'll stick with them for a little while and see how it goes. Eating more meat has helped with cravings and I really like eating more meat. I order my beef by the quarter cow and have found a couple close places that sell grass-fed organic beef in bulk so I will try out some of their meat and do that instead of ordering through my normal place. I hope things continue to go good for me. The only thing I'm worried about is thanksgiving because I have been making pumpkin pie from scratch and put sugar in it so hopefully I'll be able to handle that by the time it gets here. I don't want to give up on pumpkin pie, but all the other things I don't mind not eating anymore.
Posted 10/29/2013 8:58 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Javery,

Just wanted to let you know that pistachios have worked great with me also for snacking food.  I have been eating turkey burgers (no bread), turkey sausage, turkey legs, etc.  No cheese as of yet...I have been about 4 weeks off of nexium/protonix...and feeling stronger every day.  I had pizza (one slice) this past weekend..the first time in a few months...and no problem at all.  I kept waiting for that "burn"...I'm just real careful on things that I eat and I eat before 6pm.  I had a little bit of apple juice and it just about killed me. 

Barbara

Posted 10/30/2013 1:01 PM (GMT 0)
It's now been a week since I have not had any grain based foods and I think that is helping a bit. I watched the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead the other night and it was very interesting. I would suggest watching it as it makes some good points. It's a documentary on our diet but not how you would think it is. There's not much bashing on how we eat or on foods or anything like that. For those who haven't watched it, it's basically about a guy from Australia who wants to change his life and has had all these tests done and is on medication for a chronic condition and he is able to change his life around, get off the medication, and lose weight with just vegetables and fruits. Through him and a couple of other people he influences on his journey in the documentary, gives proof that his theory is correct. After watching it I believe that a lot of our problems stem from not getting the proper nutrients and by doing what he did, juicing, we can fill that gap and become more healthy.

Last night I went out and bought the stuff that he uses to make the mean green juice. If I were to eat it all that is included in that juice, it would probably take me about 3 days to finish it off. I don't have a juicer but used a food processor and just drink the pulp with everything else. Anyways, by doing it this way, I end up consuming all of that within a day. That's a lot of nutrients, and not to mention, some of that stuff I wouldn't even eat by itself so it is a good way to mix things up to get nutrients from things that you normally wouldn't eat on it's own. What the plan is now is to drink a glass for breakfast, eat solids for lunch, drink a glass for an afternoon snack, then possibly have some with supper. It doesn't taste bad, but I like vegetables so for someone who doesn't, it might not be the best tasting thing. I'm thinking with drinking the juice that I don't need to take the multi-vitamins or prebiotics anymore since it contains a lot of what's in the vegetables and fruits that I use.

I'm hoping that along with not eating any grains, drinking the juice with my new diet of just meat, vegetables and fruits will help more. I think I will end up buying a juicer though. My kids are still very young, haven't started school yet, so I'm thinking with a juicer I can make them fresh juice and get them started out healthy in hopes that they will want to keep with it as they get older so they don't have to go through any of the things I'm going through, or worse. So far when my oldest gets thirsty, she always asks for water, which is good.

Posted 10/30/2013 1:10 PM (GMT 0)
Barbara,

I had some pizza around the same time after I was off my medication as you did and it didn't seem to bother me much. Because of that I ended up increasing my grains intake and ended up going in reverse and noticed the heartburn increasing again so be careful. I still get hearburn when taking in any acidic items so I think my gastrin levels are still up there so I'm still producing more acid. It can take up to 26 weeks for them to go down. I had seen a study that I can't find, but wish I could again, that shows the average gastrin levels of the people in the study. It showed that after 4 weeks, their gastrin levels dropped by aboult half, then at 8 weeks it was down to almost normal, and then remainder of the 26 weeks, it gradually went back to normal. I'm hoping this is true as after 8 weeks of being off PPI's, there should be little to no heartburn if you stick to a healthy diet that doesn't have a lot of trigger foods.

I hope you continue to get better.
Posted 11/4/2013 1:43 PM (GMT 0)
It's week 7 now since I have taken my last PPI pill. Things don't seem to be getting any better but they don't seem to be getting any worse either. I still haven't eaten any grain based foods at all. Decided to buy a juicer and have been drinking two 16-20 oz glasses of juice each day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. I tend to only get any sort of heartburn a period after I have eaten. It feels as though it only occurs once my food is mostly digested so I think my body may still be producing too much acid from the rebound. I rarely have any gas buildup anymore regardless of what I eat. I'm hoping that the juicing will help with any healing process. I will say that since I have cut grains out of my diet completely, meal planning has been a little bit more work. In the past if there wasn't anything planned for a meal, we'd just make a hamburger helper or something. Now we have a meat picked out and sitting in the fridge and just cut up and prepare all the vegetables right before we start cooking. It does take a little longer but I think it is better. I tend to do most of the cooking now and about 80% of it is on the grill.

Another thing to note: I was feeling some LPR symptoms the last couple of weeks. Dry throat, sore sometimes, and drainage from the back of the throat. But since I have started juicing a little, those have seem to gone away. I think that is a good sign that juicing is doing some good.
Posted 11/7/2013 1:36 PM (GMT 0)
about halfway through week 7 and the juicing seems to be helping with things. I don't eat 5-6 times a day anymore. I'm down to 2 times a day with juicing twice a day. Juice for breakfast, eat lunch, juice afterwork in the afternoon, then eat supper. I have also changed the supplements I take. I still take DGL, probiotics, and prebiotics. I have dropped the probiotics from 2 to 1 an dthe prebiotics to just 1-2 a day. I still take 1-2 DGL before each meal but not when I'm juicing. After juicing I don't get any heartburn at all. Had eggplant lasagna the night before last and ended up having bad heartburn for over 24 hours. I have eaten tomatoes without any problems so I figured I could handle the sauce, but that was a no go. It had no cheese so that was not the issue. I guess I can eat tomatoes but not tomato sauce.

I have also added another supplement even though I dropped a couple others. I am no longer taking mastic gum. I have also stopped taking multi-vitamins since I'm getting those nutrients through juicing. I seen melatonin mentioned in another post and decided to do some research. The first thing I seen was that it is used as a sleep aid so I was thinking how this is supposed to help with acid reflux. So I googled "melatonin for gerd" and a lot of information popped up on how it has helped a lot of people with their gerd problems. From what I have read, melatonin is known to be produced by the pineal gland and controls our wake/sleep cycle. They have also found that the digestive tract containers higher levels of melatonin than the penial gland produces but I have not found any information on the purpose of it for sure. Some think that it helps keep the LES closed to help prevent reflux throughout the night. I started taking it last night but guess it can take 4-8 weeks to really see any improvement. So far just from the first night, I didn't wake up at all and I normally wake up every 2-3 hours.

The most common side effect is that it causes drowsiness, which is why they suggest to take it at bedtime, but that is a good side effect as far as I'm concerned. A lot better than the side effects of PPI's or H2-blockers that reduce the amount of acid in your stomach so you can't digest food properly.
Posted 11/11/2013 1:34 PM (GMT 0)
Starting off week 8 of breaking from the PPI's. I'm still juicing but now just do it once in the morning in place of breakfast then just eat lunch and dinner. I think things are still improving as I usually don't start to feel any heartburn until right before dinner most of the time. I think if I start to snack a little again in the afternoon a couple hours after lunch then I might not have this problem anymore. I was getting a little tired of the LPR symptoms though so I have started taking pepsid duel action right before bed. I think this has helped as my throat doesn't feel as dry in the mornings anymore. My only concern is the effect of reducing my stomach acid again and if it is going to raise my gastrin levels back up. My thought process here is that I'm taking a really small dose of and H2-blocker compared to the PPI's I used to take and the effects of that is wore off by the time I drink my juice in the morning. As a precaution, I have been putting some lemon into my juice for the extra acid. So far it is not causing any additional heartburn so I'm thinking it is working. The plan is to stay on the pepsid duel action for a few months and then cutting down to a half dose and then within 6-10 months be completely free and hopefully heartburn free. I am very optimistic about this and hopeful that it works.

On a side note, I did end up straying from my diet a bit this last weekend. I ended up eating half a peanut butter cookie and a pancake. My wife had made the cookies and I couldn't help but try some as I miss peanut butter. The cookie didn't seem to give me any problems. The wife and kids wanted pancakes for breakfast and I wasn't going to eat any, but I like those as well so I had to just have one. That was a bit of a mistake. It didn't really give me heartburn but I didn't feel too good afterwords. It may have been the syrup as well, but who knows. Now I'm back on track to just meat, vegetables, and fruits. I just need to make sure that I don't stray far enough that I end up not wanting to go back to my diet as I do enjoy all the foods I eat now, just missing a few of the others. I'm not tempted unless they are sitting right in front of me.
Posted 11/12/2013 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
I've added 1/3 of a lemon to my juice the past two mornings and have found that it helps with my gerd symptoms. It has also helped with the taste as well. The cucumbers are starting to not taste as good to me anymore like they did in the beginning. I'm wondering if I should start drinking lemon water with my meals as I have only been drinking just plain water. I think I might give this a try and let you know what happens. Between meals, my heartburn doesn't seem to be as strong as it was last week so that is a good sign. I do feel that I am eating too much per meal though so I need to try and cut back a little. I think the melatonin and dual action pepsid are helping me through the night. I haven't felt any acid in the middle of the night and barely start to feel it in the morning. The melatonin is supposed to take 4-8 weeks to take effect on the LES so we'll see how that goes. I have a 6 month supply. It's nice need to take just one a night and it was $10 for the bottle.
Posted 11/15/2013 5:24 PM (GMT 0)
The lemon water doesn't seem to be making any difference. The juicing is still working quite well though. One of these weekends I think I might try a 2 day juice fast and see how that goes. I'm thinking that when I do that, I shouldn't have any heartburn at all.
Posted 11/15/2013 8:54 PM (GMT 0)
I never have heartburn when I juice my issue be the regurgitation. I have a terrible time keeping food on my stomach especially if I skip the protonix which I have been doing. Both the juice and the other mixture are not 1 time fixers, if the lemon juice is not bothering the gerds or acid reflux try to stick with it until you feel better. And a 2 day juice fast will stop the heartburn permanently just like that the body has to do detox and repairing. You may also want to google "juice cleanse" and "healing crisis" those are two things you may need to know about before deciding to take a juice fast.
Posted 11/18/2013 2:15 PM (GMT 0)
Week 8 is done and week 9 has started. I ended with a bad week last week as this last weekend I ended up not eating very good. I am still feeling it today and even got some acid reflux after juicing for breakfast. Other than the weekend, last week went well. I was down to taking 1-2 TUMS in the afternoon a couple hours after dinner and then a dual action pepsid at bedtime. The biggest thing this last weekend was pumpkin pie. I ended up eating more than I should have. I think it was the sugars and crust that did the damage. I'll just have to remember how I felt afterwards to get myself not to do that again. At least not for awhile. It's going to be hard over thanksgiving and christmas but we'll see how it goes. On a good note, my LPR symptoms seem to be going away little by little. I guess that means there is still progress. I think I might try for a juice fast this next weekend and see how that goes.
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