I'm crying my eyes out... I'm going to have this for the rest of my life.
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ScarletWitch · 31-35, F
@CopperCicada please. Please. I'm crying so much.
CopperCicada · M
@ScarletWitch This is from my experience, your mileage may vary…
1. Get healed. That will require taking some meds for a while. PPI’s (proton pump inhibitors) like Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium. Your esophagus will heal. (If you have soft bones don’t use PPI’s. Use an H2 blocker like Pepcid. Don’t do Zantac, it was recalled.) Six weeks of so you’ll be healed up.
2. Don’t eat before bed. This is a hard one for me.
3. Raise the head of the bed.
4. Figure out what foods trigger lots of acid for you. For me it’s potato chips and coffee.
5. Exercise, eat whatever, to get your guts moving. Being all bloated just pushes everything up.
I’d 2-5 work out, then you can probably drop 1 and go to antacids like tums as needed.
Get used to your body and what it’s “tell” is for the GERD getting bar. For me it’s the bottom of my breastbone, the very tippy bit, getting tender. Then I know I’m getting bad.
1. Get healed. That will require taking some meds for a while. PPI’s (proton pump inhibitors) like Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium. Your esophagus will heal. (If you have soft bones don’t use PPI’s. Use an H2 blocker like Pepcid. Don’t do Zantac, it was recalled.) Six weeks of so you’ll be healed up.
2. Don’t eat before bed. This is a hard one for me.
3. Raise the head of the bed.
4. Figure out what foods trigger lots of acid for you. For me it’s potato chips and coffee.
5. Exercise, eat whatever, to get your guts moving. Being all bloated just pushes everything up.
I’d 2-5 work out, then you can probably drop 1 and go to antacids like tums as needed.
Get used to your body and what it’s “tell” is for the GERD getting bar. For me it’s the bottom of my breastbone, the very tippy bit, getting tender. Then I know I’m getting bad.
ScarletWitch · 31-35, F
@CopperCicada that's where it hurts the most. The breastbone. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.