it's lunacy, I tell ya...
So I've been having the dreaded pregnancy reflux for the last couple of weeks. I remember working in the ER as an intern, and these people would come in going "Oh my GOD! I'm having a heart attack! I can't stand the PAIN!!!!!" (five exclamation points worth of screaming. Seriously.) And you would do all this workup and think they're going to crash and burn on you right there, and then 5 hours later they're like -- "Oh yeah, feeling a lot better -- guess it was just a bad case of reflux"
And I'm thinking -- "what the hell man? What a total wuss you are!"
Now I know how those people felt. And my husband knows how I felt back then, because I'm walking around the house going "I can't stand the PAIN!" (only one exclamation point though-- I may be a wuss, but not a histrionic wuss. Very often.)
So I took some milk of magnesia to stem the tide of esophageal erosion. And this is what I find interesting. The stuff is peppermint flavored. Peppermint. I know very few things anymore about the ins and outs of the GI system (no pun intended), but I do know that one of the major things you are supposed to avoid if you have reflux is ... peppermint. So what gives? And by the way, it still tastes horrible.
And I'm thinking -- "what the hell man? What a total wuss you are!"
Now I know how those people felt. And my husband knows how I felt back then, because I'm walking around the house going "I can't stand the PAIN!" (only one exclamation point though-- I may be a wuss, but not a histrionic wuss. Very often.)
So I took some milk of magnesia to stem the tide of esophageal erosion. And this is what I find interesting. The stuff is peppermint flavored. Peppermint. I know very few things anymore about the ins and outs of the GI system (no pun intended), but I do know that one of the major things you are supposed to avoid if you have reflux is ... peppermint. So what gives? And by the way, it still tastes horrible.