obliguhl wrote:Very nice to recieve so many helpful replies...
Never could have hoped for scientific articles being posted wow! Thank you!
I don't drink milk most days of the weak, basically no alcohol..sometimes coffee.
Testing food..well..i've got the symptoms all the time even if i do not eat anything at all. But eating helps to reduce pain. Someone said that this might be due to damaged stomach lining and that food kinda protects it from stomach acid. But also produces more acid...
I recently started to eat some ginger, but not regularly. Perhaps i should. Vitamin D ...hmm...need to read about it.
Have you had upper GI yet? I was having some nasty heartburn a couple years ago and got dx with a hiatal hernia, which is well known for causing reflux. The most obvious symptom of this is severe, stabbing pain around the bottom of the esophagus/heart area, but this is not always present (it was for me, not pleasant, feels like what I imagine angina would feel like). If this is the case, eating would not necessarily trigger the reflux.
Anyway, my doc recommended improving my posture and this has helped dramatically; I have a tendency to slouch bent forward and this can make the hernia more prominent, thereby increasing the frequency and severity of the reflux.
I still get reflux on occasion, but mostly it's when eating cooked tomatoes, chugging too much OJ, or ingesting other sources high in acid. I have noticed that raw vegetables and whole fresh fruits do not bother me at all, however...
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