Posted on 02/25/2017 8:28:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
I don’t have to often but I use baking soda. Works immediately and better than the drugs.
I just drink jack daniels..
glad I don’t live in Canada
Spoonful of baking soda in water.....burrrrp! Ahhhh! Healed.
Baking soda works for only 45 seconds for me.
Apple cider vinegar worked for a few days but then quit working and I ended up in the hospital for 24 hours.
Baking soda.
Heartburn relief..wait fot the burp/
Someone taught me the baking soda cure over thirty years ago, and I've used it ever since. Works in seconds, and your body likes it.
I am going through this with my 95 year old Mother. It was caught early by her doctor, and her function is almost back to normal. Ibuprofen can do the same thing, too.
I’ve tried all those. None of them worked, so I just went to 40mg famotadine at bedtime. It’s cheap, safe, and it works. When proton pump inhibitors came out 25 or 30 years ago, they were prescribed with a “do not use longer than 6 weeks” warning. But most doctors ignored that, because they did work for a lot of people. I’m a nurse, and I always balk any time my doctor wants to prescribe a new medicine. Sometimes, I don’t have a lot of options, but I prefer to use older medications, because a lot of times, the incidence of adverse effects don’t show up in the research for several years, and by then, it’s too late for a lot of people.
Acetaminophen used to be a prescription, then went otc. It was considered safe. Rheumatologists were advising their patients to take huge amounts, because it didn’t cause stomach bleeding and ulcers like aspirin and other anti-inflammatory meds did. Then, their patients started developing liver failure, which is why now, you’re not supposed to take more than 3000 mg/day. It was 4,000, just a few years ago, but they had to decrease it again.
I call it “yucky water” when I drink it in front of my daughter. It does taste horrible ...
You’re right — it does work immediately.
I’m told that it’s not good to take baking soda water when you have high blood pressure, as I do. So I try not to drink it too often ...
Actually, baking soda can raise your blood pressure, so be care if you have high blood pressure. :-)
Yes, famotidine works almost as well for me as the PPIs, but are a tad inconsistent.
Sorry. Didn’t see your post first. :-)
That happens sometimes with me, but not very often.
40 mg is the prescription dose. Sometimes taken 20mg twice a day, but I think it works better if taken at night. (Insurance usually pays for 40 tablets, but not 20mg.)
Yeah, they’re cheap. I got a whole bunch from India for pennies a dose. They do work. I can certainly take two, twice a day.
FR is so slow for me and with incomplete screens I can barely post. Other sites fine.
People with burning, and belching, and possible ulcer like symptoms should demand their doctor test them for H. Pylori (helicobacter pylori) bacteria, which causes many of these symptoms and 95% of ulcers. Too many neglect the tests and instead put their patient on a lifelong prescription of antacids. Antibiotics can cure, and a dietary supplement of mastic gum has been touted as successful in killing H.pylori.
The article here mentions antacids link to c-diff because lowering the acidicy of the stomach disallows the natural stomach acidicy to kill c-diff and enter the stomach and pass to the intestines. Then when the patient is also on antibiotics, the normal intestinal flora can be depreciated, thus allowing c-diff to flourish.
I know someone who used the mastic gum after being H. Pylori positive, and then no longer showed symptoms. Then had to wean self off antacids. That was 14 years ago and now can drink a vat of coffee, tomato sauce, OJ, wine, and beer. No more purple pills.
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