HI all.
The PPI I got off of 7 months ago (after a slow taper) left me with acid reflux daily and occasional LPR. The acid reflux is getting a little better, but in the last week, I've noticed the LPR is flaring up (mucous/post nasal drip, slight sore throat). In the past it also gave me globus.
I'm wondering if it's from one of these reasons and would love your opinion:
1. After eating a very low carb (almost keto) diet during the awful PPI rebound phase, this week I've started adding back healthy carbs (ie sweet potatoes, white potato, winter squash, a little melon) to put back on weight, as I'm very under nourished and eating low carb keeps me in weight loss mode no matter how much fat I eat. (PS -- I don't eat grains, legumes, dairy or any junk food -- nothing processed, no caffeine, no alcohol etc). Could it be the healthy carbs I added back?
2. Maybe because my vitamin D is too low (42.3)?
3. Because my magnesium is too low (RBC 4.4)?
Do you have any idea on why the LPR is acting up? I won't go back on a PPI (or H2 blocker), ever, no matter what (my body doesn't tolerate them), so am hoping to get some ideas here.
Thank you!
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We can only guess, but it's almost surely due to the carbs you added into your diet (because of the timing). It may be too soon to begin adding them back in, or you may have added too many too soon, or some of them may not agree with your digestive system. Or it could be a combination of all three.
42 ng/ml should be an adequate vitamin D level, but I've seen 60-70 ng/ml recommended as an optimal level for most health issues.
It's almost impossible to assign an optimal magnesium level because of the limitations of most testing methods.
You can't get fat by eating fat. If you must limit your carb intake, the next best option for gaining weight is to eat more protein (but you have to eat some fat with it to maintain a reasonable nutritional balance).
Tex
42 ng/ml should be an adequate vitamin D level, but I've seen 60-70 ng/ml recommended as an optimal level for most health issues.
It's almost impossible to assign an optimal magnesium level because of the limitations of most testing methods.
You can't get fat by eating fat. If you must limit your carb intake, the next best option for gaining weight is to eat more protein (but you have to eat some fat with it to maintain a reasonable nutritional balance).
Tex
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.
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OMG! I didn't know ther was such a thing. I have all the symptoms like a mysterious sore throat and the occasional apnea thing. Sometimes earache too. I have even been given antibiotics despite being diagnosed with "gastritis" following an edoscopy. I found the gastroscope made things worse for a few months too.