Due to my GERD and my new diet, I'm continuing to lose quite a bit of weight. I'm now under 190 lbs, which I haven't been under that in a LONG time... Maybe since high school (almost 7 years ago)? I'm still pretty bummed that I eat a lot of the foods that I like anymore. I'm not sure if I'll be able to ever eat any of this stuff ever again with ( Read more... )

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After doing some more research on living with GERD, and fighting back, I found some news that made me die. Chewing gum is GERD trigger. If any of you know me at all, im HUGE OCD gum chewer. I almost HAVE to have a piece of gum in my mouth all the time. I've been overly figgity today trying to keep my mind off chewing gum. For me (I'm sure it's in ( Read more... )

I don't feel so much like death anymore, but my GERD is still getting the best of me. I've felt pretty crappy this week thus far. I have another doctor's appt on friday. We'll how I'm feeling by then. Typically I'm always feeling good when I get to the doctor's office (I guess it just needst to be threatened ( Read more... )

So yesterday about 4:30 I got the dreaded call from the doctor's office with the results of all my labs ( Read more... )

I did some research online to see what the barium swallow all entailed. I think because of that I made it to think that it was going to be a whole lot worse than I thought it was going to be. I wasn't fond of the "fizzy water" they gave me to expand my stomach. It instantly made me want to throw up because there was so much carbination in my ( Read more... )

Well I was out of work yesterday due to my stomach and some doc appts. It was going a little bit better friday after noon now that I took it a little easy. At the doc's office he doubled my dose of omprazole, and give me a more powerful stomach pill once im done with that. They also took blood from me to do some tests on. Monday morning I'm doin' a ( Read more... )

I have no fucking idea whats wrong with me anymore. I've been taking my pill daily and i was starting to feel better, but yesterday (well actually monday night), I'm having stomach/GI pains again. Monday night we went out and did some shopping after work because we needed kitty things. Anyway so Brandi wouldn't have t cook anything, I thought we ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

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So naturally I was feeling better yesterday when I went to the doctor, but I'm sure the fact I had NOTHING in my system, as I didn't eat anything until supper when I got had something to do with it.

Since I wasn't having daily symptoms, nor obvious ulcer/major GI problems, or a lifestyle leads to these problems (smoking, alcohol, caffiene, spicy ( Read more... )