F*ckin Heartburn, who gets it?

[sweed]

I have it right now and it sucks.. I get it a few times a week. Why do I love hot and spicey food so much? I already know im gonna get some good replys

 

[BileStew]

Tums

 

[curling]

There is a medication dude that works because I get that crap bad too. It is something ______ otc(over the counter) I am sure you have seen the commercial. The stuff is expensive but it works. Give it a shot.

 

[Smurfy]

i've never had it. when i was having gall bladder attacks in 1998, i thought it was heartburn.

 

[sweed]

i've never had it. when i was having gall bladder attacks in 1998, i thought it was heartburn.

Thats making me feel very comfortable

 

[strongsmartsexy]

I use prevacid daily. No heartburn here.

 

[Deterass]

I use prevacid daily. No heartburn here.

Same here.

 

[sweed]

Ya i should look into some of that stuff

 

[Werd]

Take care of it, or baaaaaaad things will happen.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

I never had heartburn up until I hit my mid-30s. That was right about the time the kinds of food I was eating changed. Foods I used to love and crave I no longer cared for and other foods became better choices for me.

 

[Roid Pimp]

I can eat anything and never have a problem...

Lucky for me I guess

 

[Zebo]

Aciphex.....good stuff.

 

[flex123]

I have crazy heartburn many days a week myself...

That gall bladder comment scared me, cause awhile ago when I had mono the doctor did a ultrascan and saidf I had sludge in my gall bladder and if it got worse i'd need it removed.

 

[Smurfy]

flex - even if you needed your gall bladder removed, its not a big deal. i was home the next morning with little recovery time needed.

 

[Bonkme2]

I use prevacid daily. No heartburn here.

Daily treatment type of thing? OTC?
I tend to get heartburn when I don't eat moreso then when I do.

 

[daveyboy]

Only ever had heartburn the following day after taking cialis.

 

[fistfullofsteel]

Yep, I let it go and it got worse and now I pay the price. There is a lot of foods and drinks that I can't have anymore and the chest pains are really bothersome.

 

[Werd]

Yep, I let it go and it got worse and now I pay the price. There is a lot of foods and drinks that I can't have anymore and the chest pains are really bothersome.

Acid backing up out of the stomach and ending up in places it shouldn't will cause permanent damage. This damage doesn't happen overnight, but would you really want to find out just how long it does take?

It can lead to many complications including:

- rot your teeth.
- destroy vocal chords, voice box and throat in general by causing growths both cancerous and benign and narrowing and inflamation making it difficult and painful to swallow food, sometimes not allowing you to even swallow your own saliva.
- affect your lungs ie asthma among other complications.
- damage the esophagus, among other things, cause a condition known as Barrett's syndrome which is a precursor to esophageal cancer for which there is no known cure.

Long term drug therapy and in the most severe cases, surgery, will help alleviate the symptoms of GERD. Occasional heartburn may be unpleasent, but it certainly isn't going to kill you. But if you have chronic symptoms and ignore them you most certainly will not only suffer but have decreased quality of life and yea, end up dead.

 

[2Btoned]

I get them usually when I take Fatburners...