gerd free, here's how

Hi everyone,
First of all I want to thank to both members and mods of this forum for their help and much needed support. I feel like I should share my success story and perhaps return the favour. So, I had suffered from acid reflux for 15 years and I'm gerd free for about 18 months. I waited this long because I wanted to make sure the results weren't temporary. I've been extremely lucky to have a great GI doctor who managed to heal me. From the very beginning he insisted on h2 blockers therapy instead of ppi's and I was literally starving for 3 months. I lost a lot of weight and even drinking water would cause problems. However, my doc kept maintaining that my stomach just needed time to adjust. Needless to say, he was right. My stomach did adjust and I started to eat again. He kept me on h2 blockers (twice a day and antacid an hour after meal) for two years and then instructed me to stop taking the morning dosage and only do the evening. To my surprise, I felt a bit uncomfortable for only a week or so, and then I was good again. After 6 months, he wanted me to stop taking h2 blockers altogether and just have antacids 3 times a day. That was a bit harder to do, so after a few days I had to get back to the previous evening only scheme. The basics are: take evening dosage for three months then stop taking any. If it makes gerd come back, do another three months. So, little by little, I got to be gerd and meds free. Now I just don't eat food known to cause gerd and that's it. I feel great. When I asked him how he knew it was the time to stop the therapy, he told me he noticed on examination I no longer had pain around my belly button, which is closely related to gerd, and it was just a matter of making my stomach learn it can function on its own. Hope this will help. If you have any questions I will be more than happy to answer. Good luck everyone and thanks again

Hi what kind of tablets s H2 blockers..

Oh, sorry, I didn't understand you and I guess I still don't, but I'll try. It was kinda weird. When on full therapy I experienced soar throat etc. pretty regularly. But once I started with half dosage I would be completely symptoms free for some time and then if symptoms went back I would switch back to full. Hope this time I got it right, if not try me again

I'm so sorry you went through this and having a wrong person treating you is very disappointing. I've been there and my current doctor has done his best to keep my spirit up. In three years I only had one endoscopy and it was done after my throat healed enough in order to minimize discomfort. After that, I had to show up twice a year for check up if everything was under control and immediately if not. Every single time he wanted to know every symptoms I had, how often I had them and he would do palpation of my abdomen. Have you discovered your triggers? I learned that eating roasted sunflower's seeds helps a lot, only not because of the seeds but swallowing, as saliva neutralizes acid I really wish you get some serious treatment at the hospital. If not, you could even come to Serbia (that's where I'm from) since it it's not that far from you and I could send you contact details of my GI specialist.

parameda said...
All righty! The doc has a private practice in Novi Sad and I live 60km away. Heck, you could stay with us if you decide to come. Hope you moved to Denmark on time. I have a few friends who also got scattered around the world due to crazy people messing out with all of us. If it wasn't rude I'd be asking you a lot of questions not regarded to gerd. Wish you all the best!

HI Parameda,

How are you doing now, just checking....my 13 year old daughter had LPR. :(


Thanks, Mita