Hi I was wondering does anyone with this disease also get hives. Thanks...
Thank you for bringing this post back up. I hope others respond to get their experiences....
Thank you so much for this thread it has helped. I am dealing with the same thing. I cannot get into see my GI for several weeks and the anxiety of this has me on pins and needles which does not help...
Just curious has anyone developed stomach issues from taking blood pressure medication. I have been on lisinopril for probably two years and have developed some issues. I stopped taking the...
Hilly Girl I am still waiting for the Cream to come in from Amazon but i started taking the calcium on Monday night. I take it a.m. and p.m. and am noticing a difference. As i type this post i notice...
Thank you Hilly girl I went on Amazon and bought the cream and during lunch went and bought the liquid calcium. I appreciate the advise. Hopefully it helps do the trick. I will keep you posted on my...
Has anyone suffered from this after being on PPI's long term. I went back to the doctor and they think I am nuts but I see it posted all over the internet. My main symptom is muscle pain that is...
I was wondering has anyone had water effect their IBS. I started around 3 weeks ago trying to drink 64 ounces of water a day. Well since then my IBS is worse I am constantly going to the bathroom due...
Hello In another post I indicated I had quit ppi’s cold turkey and was doing ok with a Zantac every other day or so. Well today I take that back (day 17 cold turkey Prilosec) I feel horrid right now....
Angelcat The itching radiate all over but mostly in the upper back along the bra line....
Hey Paleoman That was a symptom i had and I quit Prilosec after taking it off and on for close to 10 years cold turkey. I have been off just over two weeks and have not had any real bad acid rebound...
Quick question where do you buy alkaline water?...
Today its been two weeks since my last pill. I am taking Zantec in between if I have flareups. The side effects are slowly going away and I am feeling better. Thanks again for everyone's responses....
Thank you so much for answering I have been so stressed out over this. The pain in my back was so intense that I thought there was something wrong with my kidney's. I had an upper Abdominal...
Hi James_a I wrote a post about this a couple of days ago but no body answered. Prilosec caused severe issues to the point that I had to get a ultrasound down of my upper abdominal (still waiting on...
Hello I have not posted in quite some time. I have been on and off PPI's for 10 years (over the counter) Prilosec and prevacid. In the past month I developed back pain and itching (also noticed over...
I forgot to tell you i had the colonoscopy at the end of august of this year...
Hi I am not new here but have not been on the site for a while. I have been having IBS issues for years but was too scared to get the colonoscopy done because of fear of what they would find. My...
Can the meds cause fatigue. I noticed since starting them i get very tired....
Excuse me I did not mean to offend...
I guess we are victims of the "Worry World" and please don't call it hypochondriac call it health anxiety disorder it sounds better :smhair: I suffer from major anxiety to the point where i can...
Kitt My God their is a name to it and you just described me to a tee. I meant to reply to you earlier but needed some time to absorb what you said. Last night when my husband and i got home from work...
Thank you all for your kind words.... I know this is not a grief thread but to tell you the truth everything went to pot after Chris' passing. Six months after his death i developed the swallowing...
Thanks for all your reply's. I am feeling a little bit better and know you are probably right ANXIETY is not good. AlisaMichelle7 you are completely right when you say not to think about it....
I am not sure if its stress or not...I have put myself on over the counter prevacid for the past four days and have not really noticed much improvement. I seem to be fine when i first start to eat...
I need some reassurance until i can get to the doctor next month.... In 2005 i was under major stress (my son at 15 passed away) and i started having problems swallowing. I put off get the scope done...
Oh gosh talk about anxiety....yikes I first posted here around 5 years ago several months after my sons passing. My main symptom was that i was having swallowing problems. I kept putting off getting...
Joang...were you dx yet...
How long have you had this problem?...
Has anyone felt that there GERD got worse from taking PPI's?...
friendlygal You sound alot like me. I have been dealing with this crap what seems like forever and it comes and goes. I was scoped 10-2006 and they found nothing wrong. Miracously all my symptoms...
Hi LakerChick I saw your post earlier and wanted to write in sooner but was not able. I am so glad its nothing serious with your mom. i dealt with the same crap a couple of years and the endo showed...
Hi dstig I am sorry you are not well. I know the anxiety and worry can make the symptoms worse. Just cause you have barretts does not mean you are going to get the C word. My sis was dx with barretts...
My issues started in 2005 about four months after my son was killed in a traffic accident. It started with swallowing problems that went away after taking prescript ion omezparole (sp). about a year...
you only had it a month and you got Barrett's that quick...I thought Barretts forms after years of GERD issues. Now I am going to start worrying. I had a clean scope in Oct 2006 and have had some...
Hi dstig You are so young how long have you had GERD....
Yes And I can tell you this that stressing and thinking about it makes it worse....
Forgot it was the new year I meant my issues started up again in Sept. 06...
Hi Acidman You sound exactly like me. I was in your position September last year. I also suffer from extreme health anxiety . In 2003 i enter the world of stomach issues that would come and go. In...
Thank you Razzle for that information. I am going back to the doctor next week because the anxiety over this is worse than anything. something interesting is that I have bad allergies eyes watering...
I had heard on alot of other sites that it is usually noitceable and the doctor can usually tell. When they do the endo and the esophagus is irritated can the docotr usually see this...
Outlaw Just curious how could they not see it. I thought they could usually see it during the scope. What are your symptoms do you have GERD....
Oh my gosh hernia that is me. I will be eating and then like you said after the middle of the meal or towards the end the swallowing issues start to act up. I was going to compose this in a seperate...
Hernia Your post has my name written all over it. I had the same problem but not as you. The only difference is that after the endo they could find absolutely nothing wrong with me, I had the endo...
I am thinking that maybe I did not chew enough. This happeneed one before with vitamins when I took too many at once without enough water...
On Monday I was eating beef stew. I had a bad episode where on one of my swallows it was painful. Since than I have been fine but am still worried. Hass this happened to anyone???? I had an endo a...
Hi I am taking perscript ion ibrepropum (sp) for an injury I received. Yesterday morning I had a bagle for breakfast with cream cheese. I did not eat lunch because I was still full. At around 2:00 I...
In July I started taking laxatives becasue of constipation problems. I have been taking them on a regular basis and have become dependent on them. Has anyone ever had laxatives cause their heartburn....
Thanks guys for replying I thought I was alone.... I am now starting to get heartburn and its freaking me out. I am under alot of stress though...
Hi I finally had an endo last October after over 3 years of off and on problems. What got me to go was the fact that I was having swallowing issues. Well the GI did the endo and found absolutely...