I hope everyone has had a good weekend, Mar's i hope you are feeling a little better, it start to get you down when you can't do the things you want to, so you keep your chin up girl, and get well.
I have been watching the news and it seems things are getting moving now with the Katrina disaster lets hope and pray that those poor people get sorted out soon my heart just bleeds for them.
Wayne i looked at the site you put up for Mars that was very interesting as i have had a real bad stomach all week, have been going to the toilet about 6 times a day (dont want to sound crude) but it seems that the food is coming out without it being digested, and have felt really sick all week, but the Artheritus has been bad as well is this due to the MC or is it the Acid reflux at the moment im just baffeled but am fed up with all the meds and pain killers have left the lot alone today but now i can hardley type because the carpol tunnel is hurting too much.
Wayne would really appreciate your opinion.
Bye for now hope everyone has a good week
God bless
Love B obbie
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annie oakley
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Hi Bobbie....I am not Wayne but I have some of the same issues. Except lately all my food comes out digested. And when it doesn't, at least for me it means I have eaten something that just doen't agree with my system. My hiatal hernia and reflux is better when I lay off the fried foods but I also drink green tea after all my evening meals and it seems to settle all that down. Plus I take Prilosec otc. It can be so frustrating when you don't know exactly what causes things that happen. I am going to visit a bone doctor thursday to try and get some relief from this arthritis and knee pain. I am allergic to any arthritis meds with Sulpher in them. I sure hope you feel better soon and maybe Wayne has some good suggestions for you. Love Oma
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Hi Bobbie,
I'm very sorry that you have been sick all week. Your symptoms sound like either some sort of virus, (is some sort of flu bug going around?), or a regular MC reaction.
I don't believe that acid reflux would normally cause poor digestion, though it's possible that some medications used to treat acid reflux, might interfere with normal digestion.
Which medications have you been taking?
Love,
Wayne
I'm very sorry that you have been sick all week. Your symptoms sound like either some sort of virus, (is some sort of flu bug going around?), or a regular MC reaction.
I don't believe that acid reflux would normally cause poor digestion, though it's possible that some medications used to treat acid reflux, might interfere with normal digestion.
Which medications have you been taking?
Love,
Wayne
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HI Bobbie,
Sorry to hear you have not been feeling well. I can understand the inability to function to your full extent while feeling so bad.
Oma has give some good advice about the acid reflux. I take Nexium for my GERD and it helps. I tried another medication but I had quite a bit of breakthrough acid. I tried changing my medication to see if it made a difference in the bathroom trips. Didn't notice a difference one way or another but it wasn't controlling the problems.
In addition to reducing or eliminating fried, greasy foods I have also found the following to help.
Avoid foods with an acidic makeup (tomatoes, orange juice and fresh oranges, etc.) Most soda's are included in this along with some fruit juice. Apple juice, pineapple and others were/are terrible for me.
Avoid eating a few hours before bedtime and if you do, make it a light meal or snack. Extending the timeframe between when you eat and lying down is advised. Gastric juices will flow upward when they are working overtime to digest your food and therefore travel up into the esophagus and into the throat.
Elevate the head of your bed - preferably on bricks or something similar. Some encourage using more than one pillow but through research and experience have found that if you have a hiatus hernia along with the GERD, the result of using two pillows squishes the hernia up into the esophagus (which is what this type of hernia is) therefore causing you more discomfort.
I have also found that dairy and caffine will increase the acid reflux as will spicey foods.
Hope some or all of this will help Bobbie. I know that is one condition that is extremely miserable. Hope you get some relief soon.
Hugs to you. Take care.
Sorry to hear you have not been feeling well. I can understand the inability to function to your full extent while feeling so bad.
Oma has give some good advice about the acid reflux. I take Nexium for my GERD and it helps. I tried another medication but I had quite a bit of breakthrough acid. I tried changing my medication to see if it made a difference in the bathroom trips. Didn't notice a difference one way or another but it wasn't controlling the problems.
In addition to reducing or eliminating fried, greasy foods I have also found the following to help.
Avoid foods with an acidic makeup (tomatoes, orange juice and fresh oranges, etc.) Most soda's are included in this along with some fruit juice. Apple juice, pineapple and others were/are terrible for me.
Avoid eating a few hours before bedtime and if you do, make it a light meal or snack. Extending the timeframe between when you eat and lying down is advised. Gastric juices will flow upward when they are working overtime to digest your food and therefore travel up into the esophagus and into the throat.
Elevate the head of your bed - preferably on bricks or something similar. Some encourage using more than one pillow but through research and experience have found that if you have a hiatus hernia along with the GERD, the result of using two pillows squishes the hernia up into the esophagus (which is what this type of hernia is) therefore causing you more discomfort.
I have also found that dairy and caffine will increase the acid reflux as will spicey foods.
Hope some or all of this will help Bobbie. I know that is one condition that is extremely miserable. Hope you get some relief soon.
Hugs to you. Take care.
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
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MaggieRedwings
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Morning Bobbie,
Here's hoping your are feeling much better and I know what you mean about food not digesting. I concentrate on chewing my food so it will come out looking like I ate it and not swallowed it whole, but it still just seems to reconstruct itself after all that chewing.
Take care and rest when you need to.
Love, Maggie
Here's hoping your are feeling much better and I know what you mean about food not digesting. I concentrate on chewing my food so it will come out looking like I ate it and not swallowed it whole, but it still just seems to reconstruct itself after all that chewing.
Take care and rest when you need to.
Love, Maggie
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Thanks for all your reply's
Hello everyone,
Thanks for all your reply's i am really pissed off today, went to the supermarket with my daughter in law and my grandaughter just as we got to the check out i had to run
my grandaughter wanted to run with me thinking i was playing so i had to get her to stay with her mum and i threw my purse at my daughter in law, the women on the checkout was looking at me as though i was mad and i was in the loo so long they must have thought id flushed myself down the loo 
i just wanted to get out of there and get home.
Oma i have got a hiatus hernia, i dont know how i got it because i dont really eat anything fried or greasy i dont eat spicy food im really a plain eater i have'nt eaten a proper meal now for 4 day's because it just makes me feel so sick, so im living on light snacks and mints i have even got to the stage where i am taking mints to bed with me, i have got to go to see a physiotherapist assor on the 16th Sept about the Arthritus and if he tell me to exercise i am likely to
right over the head because i am on my feet 7 hours a day in work and i end up walking like the village cripple. Sorry about the moaning folks, when there are a lot more people worse off but it just baffles me what to do next to try and feel better.
Wayne i was taking Zolton for the reflux that is what the hospital put me on and he told me to stop smoking which is easier said than done i have got to go back and see him on thursday will let you know what he has to say, but i dont know about the US but the doctors here blame everythink on smoking but im afraid if i was'nt smoking at the moment i think i would have to be committed
Well folks i will say bye for now,
hope you are all well.
Good night God bless,
Love Bobbie
Thanks for all your reply's i am really pissed off today, went to the supermarket with my daughter in law and my grandaughter just as we got to the check out i had to run
my grandaughter wanted to run with me thinking i was playing so i had to get her to stay with her mum and i threw my purse at my daughter in law, the women on the checkout was looking at me as though i was mad and i was in the loo so long they must have thought id flushed myself down the loo i just wanted to get out of there and get home.Oma i have got a hiatus hernia, i dont know how i got it because i dont really eat anything fried or greasy i dont eat spicy food im really a plain eater i have'nt eaten a proper meal now for 4 day's because it just makes me feel so sick, so im living on light snacks and mints i have even got to the stage where i am taking mints to bed with me, i have got to go to see a physiotherapist assor on the 16th Sept about the Arthritus and if he tell me to exercise i am likely to
right over the head because i am on my feet 7 hours a day in work and i end up walking like the village cripple. Sorry about the moaning folks, when there are a lot more people worse off but it just baffles me what to do next to try and feel better.Wayne i was taking Zolton for the reflux that is what the hospital put me on and he told me to stop smoking which is easier said than done i have got to go back and see him on thursday will let you know what he has to say, but i dont know about the US but the doctors here blame everythink on smoking but im afraid if i was'nt smoking at the moment i think i would have to be committed
Well folks i will say bye for now,
hope you are all well.
Good night God bless,
Love Bobbie
Bobbie,
Sorry to tell you this but I also get extreme heart burn and GERD from mints. Especially peppermint. Hopefully that is not your case.
I sure hope you begin to feel better and SOON!
Hugs to ya!
Sorry to tell you this but I also get extreme heart burn and GERD from mints. Especially peppermint. Hopefully that is not your case.
I sure hope you begin to feel better and SOON!
Hugs to ya!
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
Hi Bobbie,
I can't find any information on Zolton, so I don't know what it's side effects might be.
The doctors here in the States are also always campaigning against smoking. When I broke an arm, a couple of years ago, the doctor who set it, advised me that I shouldn't smoke any of the cigars that I had in my pocket, as smoking them would slow down the healing process. I'm sure he had good intentions, but that was a ridiculous reason, because smoking them certainly didn't slow down the healing process by any noticeable amount.
The reason why your doctor advises you to stop smoking, is because cigarette smoking relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter muscle, allowing stomach acid into the esophagus. It's difficult to say how much effect smoking will have, since the effect is probably more significant with some people than with others.
Also, saliva normally contains bicarbonate, a compound that neutralizes stomach acid. Smokers produce up to 50 percent less saliva that nonsmokers. Because of those two facts, it's not surprising that studies have found that it takes longer for esophageal acid to clear in smokers, and that GERD symptoms are more common among cigarette smokers.
Interestingly, chronic smokers' bouts of GERD discomfort do not appear to correlate with the specific times when they light up. Therefore, abstaining from cigarettes only during the periods when GERD symptoms occur, is unlikely to improve a patient's condition.
That said, to be honest, in view of the stress that would be caused by trying to stop smoking, I would be surprised if trying to break the smoking habit would provide any practical benefits for many months. It might help the GERD, but would proably make the D from MC a worse problem, at least for a while.
Mars is quite correct. I don't know if your doctor ever mentioned this to to you or not, but peppermint and spearmint can also relax the lower esophageal sphincter, which in turn can cause heartburn/reflux. Here is a website which has a handy guide concerning the things to avoid, for those who have GERD:
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/guides/gerd/gerddiag.htm
Love,
Wayne
I can't find any information on Zolton, so I don't know what it's side effects might be.
The doctors here in the States are also always campaigning against smoking. When I broke an arm, a couple of years ago, the doctor who set it, advised me that I shouldn't smoke any of the cigars that I had in my pocket, as smoking them would slow down the healing process. I'm sure he had good intentions, but that was a ridiculous reason, because smoking them certainly didn't slow down the healing process by any noticeable amount.
The reason why your doctor advises you to stop smoking, is because cigarette smoking relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter muscle, allowing stomach acid into the esophagus. It's difficult to say how much effect smoking will have, since the effect is probably more significant with some people than with others.
Also, saliva normally contains bicarbonate, a compound that neutralizes stomach acid. Smokers produce up to 50 percent less saliva that nonsmokers. Because of those two facts, it's not surprising that studies have found that it takes longer for esophageal acid to clear in smokers, and that GERD symptoms are more common among cigarette smokers.
Interestingly, chronic smokers' bouts of GERD discomfort do not appear to correlate with the specific times when they light up. Therefore, abstaining from cigarettes only during the periods when GERD symptoms occur, is unlikely to improve a patient's condition.
That said, to be honest, in view of the stress that would be caused by trying to stop smoking, I would be surprised if trying to break the smoking habit would provide any practical benefits for many months. It might help the GERD, but would proably make the D from MC a worse problem, at least for a while.
Mars is quite correct. I don't know if your doctor ever mentioned this to to you or not, but peppermint and spearmint can also relax the lower esophageal sphincter, which in turn can cause heartburn/reflux. Here is a website which has a handy guide concerning the things to avoid, for those who have GERD:
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/guides/gerd/gerddiag.htm
Love,
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.