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seaking420
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What exactly do you feel with heartburn?
i guess a burning sensation in your chest? its actually got nothing to do with the heart. "heartburn" refers to the location of the discomfort. the esophagus lining behind where the heart is gets irritated by stomach acid that flows back up past the sphincter of the esophagus that's supposed to keep the acid out. but the sphincter can get loosened and then it doesnt work so well. there is also a sphincter at the top too right where your neck meets your clavicle and when acid gets up there, it irritates the throat lining very badly - thats where I have my problem but nexium improves the symptoms (but does not totally resolve them)seaking420 said:
Smurfy said:
Hmmm, I was diagnosed with something like this, but it may have been misdiagnosed. I had a persistant cough that the ENT said it was from that. I forget what meds I took for it. Didn't help anyway. Good stuff.
Can you ever "fix" the problem you have? I don't mean lumberg, I'm referring to the throat issue.
yeah i was misdiagnosed with chronic sinusitis and i had the persistent cough at night while laying down too. and throat stuff. and mucus in there all the time (yuck) but i didnt want to believe it was reflux cuz im like "well ive never had heartburn in my whole life" but you dont necessarily need to have heartburn to have reflux. anywho after weeks upon weeks on antibiotics and a gazillion prescription antihistamines and decongestants - my allergist said, just give the nexium a try and within 10 days i guarantee you'll notice a difference. and i did.gonelifting said:
Cliff notes version at the end for those of you who find me excessively verbose 
I had heartburn everday for close to a year, it would start about an hour after eating lunch and wouldn't be gone until I woke up the next morning. I tried EVERYTHING, nothing helped until I found my trigger/allergy foods and eliminated them completely and utterly.
If you suffer from frequent heartburn it's your body's way of telling you something YOU are shoving down your gullet is NO GOOD for you, period. It is possible to be intolerant of a food without having a full blown, testable allergic reaction. If you regularly take antacids or proton pump inhibitors all you're doing is compounding the problem and setting yourself up for other problems later in life.
Doctors are full of shit on this one. The problem is NOT excess stomach acid, the problem is the food is not moving THROUGH the digestive tract as it should and it's sitting in our stomach longer than our stomach was designed to hold it for. Eating food that doesn't agree with us damages the microvilli in our gut, which dramatically slows the peristaltic action that moves the food through the digestive tract.
If you get heartburn you should keep a very detailed food diary that includes when heartburn symptoms happen. You should log this for at least two weeks, preferably a month. For that month you should try to eat as SIMPLY as possible (a super clean diet), because that's the only way to spot the pattern.
The thing that causes you heartburn is something you eat often, either as a food group or an ingredient, and probably enjoy.
There are two other things that can cause heartburn, but you should eliminate the food intolerance issue first because continued exposure to a food your body cannot tolerate can cause all sorts of other health problems down the road (starting with things like polyps and colorectal cancer). Repeated exposure to foods you cannot digest is also one of the main causes of frequent headaches, migraines and IBS and if you suffer from some combination of heartburn, IBS and headaches I guarantee you that you are absolutely consuming a food you shouldn't and taking antacids, aspirin and Imodium is only covering up the symptoms, not curing the actual cause.
CLIFF NOTES:
1. Antacids cover up the symptoms, they are not a cure.
2. Heartburn is your body telling you that you ate something bad.
3. Track your symptoms/diet to find the real cause of heartburn.
I had heartburn everday for close to a year, it would start about an hour after eating lunch and wouldn't be gone until I woke up the next morning. I tried EVERYTHING, nothing helped until I found my trigger/allergy foods and eliminated them completely and utterly.
If you suffer from frequent heartburn it's your body's way of telling you something YOU are shoving down your gullet is NO GOOD for you, period. It is possible to be intolerant of a food without having a full blown, testable allergic reaction. If you regularly take antacids or proton pump inhibitors all you're doing is compounding the problem and setting yourself up for other problems later in life.
Doctors are full of shit on this one. The problem is NOT excess stomach acid, the problem is the food is not moving THROUGH the digestive tract as it should and it's sitting in our stomach longer than our stomach was designed to hold it for. Eating food that doesn't agree with us damages the microvilli in our gut, which dramatically slows the peristaltic action that moves the food through the digestive tract.
If you get heartburn you should keep a very detailed food diary that includes when heartburn symptoms happen. You should log this for at least two weeks, preferably a month. For that month you should try to eat as SIMPLY as possible (a super clean diet), because that's the only way to spot the pattern.
The thing that causes you heartburn is something you eat often, either as a food group or an ingredient, and probably enjoy.
There are two other things that can cause heartburn, but you should eliminate the food intolerance issue first because continued exposure to a food your body cannot tolerate can cause all sorts of other health problems down the road (starting with things like polyps and colorectal cancer). Repeated exposure to foods you cannot digest is also one of the main causes of frequent headaches, migraines and IBS and if you suffer from some combination of heartburn, IBS and headaches I guarantee you that you are absolutely consuming a food you shouldn't and taking antacids, aspirin and Imodium is only covering up the symptoms, not curing the actual cause.
CLIFF NOTES:
1. Antacids cover up the symptoms, they are not a cure.
2. Heartburn is your body telling you that you ate something bad.
3. Track your symptoms/diet to find the real cause of heartburn.
seaking420
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I get this discomfort at times(almost daily) right near my heart/sternum area not sure if its heartbrun or not. I might go get it checked out. I also get this nasty stuff that builds up over a couple of days in my tonsils and I pick it out, this stuff smells and looks like partially digested food, probably linked together.
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MM - I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. I have long been suffering w/reflux and all the complications thereof since I was old enough to remember. Yup, I grew up literally thinking that Rolaids were candy.
I've been poked, prodded, tested out the wazoo, have taken every pill/potion even had surgery in a desperate attempt to gain relief.
And yup, you guessed it. The drugs I took were in such high doses that when they finally alleviated my reflux sypmtoms they caused other sides so severe that they were worse than the initial symptoms. I won't even go there about how the surgery has PERMANENTLY screwed me up.
My symptoms are now so advanced and severe that I do recognize it will lead to my demise sooner than later.
I was at my sickest at the height of my competitive bbing career. Very small, super clean meals - very low bf - very active - no drinking or smoking or any drugs. The docs all shook their heads and merely called me an enigma. On the outside I was the picture of unbelievable health yet I had the insides of a 65 y/o alcoholic, sedentary, obese male smoker.
I have suffered with SEVERE diahrea since the surgery a few years back which has gotten so bad that it nearly killed me. I am ALWAYS in pain. Food gets stuck on the way down. Matter of fact, it is not pretty because I can't always predict when it will get "ugly".
If there were a food or foods that I could eliminate or something supplement/medicine I could take to make it go away or if there was some sort of lifestyle change that I could make, I would do it gladly.
I've been poked, prodded, tested out the wazoo, have taken every pill/potion even had surgery in a desperate attempt to gain relief.
And yup, you guessed it. The drugs I took were in such high doses that when they finally alleviated my reflux sypmtoms they caused other sides so severe that they were worse than the initial symptoms. I won't even go there about how the surgery has PERMANENTLY screwed me up.
My symptoms are now so advanced and severe that I do recognize it will lead to my demise sooner than later.
I was at my sickest at the height of my competitive bbing career. Very small, super clean meals - very low bf - very active - no drinking or smoking or any drugs. The docs all shook their heads and merely called me an enigma. On the outside I was the picture of unbelievable health yet I had the insides of a 65 y/o alcoholic, sedentary, obese male smoker.
I have suffered with SEVERE diahrea since the surgery a few years back which has gotten so bad that it nearly killed me. I am ALWAYS in pain. Food gets stuck on the way down. Matter of fact, it is not pretty because I can't always predict when it will get "ugly".
If there were a food or foods that I could eliminate or something supplement/medicine I could take to make it go away or if there was some sort of lifestyle change that I could make, I would do it gladly.
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