For those who cannot attend a meeting in the N. E. when they live to far away or have health issues that prevent them from attending.
Your voice should be heard, not just those folks in the N. E.
As I am the victim of several of these health issues I know there are more of you out there that are NOT being heard.
And NO one is telling you that, that PPI you are taking for GERD will cause you to develop Osteoporosis due to the fact they make your bones porous.
Nor will the doctors tell you those OP drugs have FDA warnings on them, they all have GI side effects. Foreto is black box labeled for bone cancer.
If you want the warnings I will post them.
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Many thanks for posting.
There are 52 drugs with initials PPI
GERD means Gastro Intestinal Reflux Disease
I gave up looking for OP
This actually a subject I have some knowledge of as there are people in my family with serious GI disorders. Yes, the drugs are harsh but sometimes there are few alternatives other than removing the colon entirely.
There is a clinic in Los Angeles that is famous for the treatment of this. Actually, the 3 main places I have heard that are tops for this issue are the IBD clinic at Cedars in Los Angeles, the Mayo Clinic (Minn. I think), and there is one specialist who is famous for it down in San Diego at Scripts Clinic.
Sympathy here for those who have to deal with this.
This is gross and disgusting (and may or may not be true): I read about labs or doctors who pay people with perfectly healthy digestive systems to donate their... well... feces. That, in turn, is somehow transferred to people with GERD (and possibly other intestinal issues), and the problem is cured. Sounds nasty, and I may have been punked, but there it is FWIW.