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Posted 2/5/2006 12:37 AM (GMT 0)
Hi all,

   My GERD has definitely flaired up recently.  And it seems like after I eat, the food just sits there in my stomach forever.  Does this happen to you?

Posted 2/5/2006 2:27 AM (GMT 0)

ALL THE TIME!!  I know it must pass through or else I would have blown up by now, but I feel like it just sits there and then I do lots and lots of burping!!  Dr says its dyspepsia.  Well great, but their only solution to that is.........drum roll please........take more acid blockers!!! nono    I mean hello??  We need acid right?  Are you taking any digestive enzymes or anything??

Nancy

Posted 2/5/2006 3:09 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Nal,
No, no enzymes, but I just found my old bottle of peppermint oil capsules. I remember taking those a few years ago when this happened, so I think I might start those up again. I think they helped.......but they sure burned on their way out!! lol!
Posted 2/5/2006 3:57 AM (GMT 0)
I'm on Apple Cider Vinegar for 2 days now.
Can't really feel any difference in terms of feeling better or worse.
Will continue and see how it goes. Felt the slight burn sensation when i swallow the stuff.
Posted 2/5/2006 4:34 PM (GMT 0)
You can buy Apple Cider Vinegar capsules or tablets, instead of drinking the liquid.  They work VERY well for me.  I personally could not function with out them AND my Nexium.
Posted 2/6/2006 1:06 AM (GMT 0)
so you take vinegar and nexium...that seems like two ends of the problem...adding acid and taking it away. pllease explain....this is very interesting to me

last summer i drank vinegar waater for a montha nd felt pretty good but then one day it kicked the heartburn into high gear and i got off the vinegar and back on the nexium

would much rather take teh natural vinegar than the chemical nexium

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Posted 2/6/2006 1:21 AM (GMT 0)
I cannot explain it-- but I DO know that I feel BEST when I take Nexium in the morning when I first wake up- and then the apple cider vinegar capsules before meals.  I have been told that apple cider vinegar tablets provide the acid you need- in a natural form- and that because your body senses the acid, it does not produce a lot.  I do not know.  But I have experimented- and this is what works (FOR ME). Strange, I know.  I WISH I did not have to take Nexium- but I have tried coming off it- only to have to go back on.
Posted 2/6/2006 2:54 PM (GMT 0)
Why wouldn't your body recognize coke as an acid?.....or maybe tomatoes?
I remembered taking some cider vinegar and water once, trying to figure out if maybe I had TOO little acid........and boy did that hurt!
I wonder if our GERD has anything to do with the theory about how our bodies should be alkaline, but if we eat the wrong things, it makes it too acidic??

   I just realized that you take capsules.  I wonder if that lets the vinegar get beyond your stomach, before it gets out of the capsules?

Posted 2/6/2006 8:55 PM (GMT 0)
I wish I knew! Just the thought of drinking a Coke makes my stomach hurt! BUT- I will tell you this- I got back on my Nexium recently- and the past 2 days I actually have not used the ACV capsules- and I have had no heartburn or chestpain. Was thinking that I should maybe try just ACV capsules- without the Nexium- but now I am afraid - since I am feeling good! Guess I will keep up the Nexium for awhile-
Posted 2/8/2006 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
My food can seem to sit in my stomach forever too! It depends on what I eat (pasta and pizza will definitely do it). I've recently started taking papaya enzymes and I have to say I feel a lot better. I don't feel bloated at all. I don't know if it's just that or the fact that I'm watching my carbs, but I'm going to continue to take them.

~Niki
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