Heart Burn, who gets it?

[Bouncer]

B i have acid reflux - which i let go for a long time unchecked when i was younger -

it ate a hole - causing berets disease which can turn into stomach cancer -- i go every 2 years to have it looked at to be sure things are fine -

i take prevacid - without it i couldnt eat anything without heartburn -

dont let it go for to long unchecked specially if its a everyday occurance

do you ever come off the prevacid house? what is your dosage? your only supposed to stay on that for a few weeks no?

[Bouncer]

I have been reading alot about it. Famotidine (Pepcid) is prescribed by docs in higher doses to help heal the esophagus from damage due to Acid Reflux. The prescribed dose seems to be around 40mg per day. (20mg in the morning, 20mg at night) I bought some Extra Strength Pepcid AC. It has 20mg of Famotidine per tab. I am going to try it at 40mg a day for 2 weeks and see how I feel. If I am still having the issue I will go see the doc. From what I understand though, 40mg of famotidine a day should lower stomach acid enough to let the esophagus heal. If not I will have to get on a proton pump inhibitor (prevacid, Aciphex) and totally shut down the stomach acid as opposed to just lowering it like Famotidine does.

[house1]

do you ever come off the prevacid house? what is your dosage? your only supposed to stay on that for a few weeks no?

never come off - will be on for life - i am at 30 mgs ed suppose to take 60 mgs but 30 does the trick -

bouncer i cant eat anything without getting heartburn - runs in my family - my sister and one of my brothers have it - my grandfather had it aswell

[house1]

bouncer - check this out aswell - brother takes it - works perfect

http://www.prilosecotc.com/

[coffee-guy]

I will never give up coffee bro - just ain't gonna happen unless I'm dead...

[Bouncer]

bouncer - check this out aswell - brother takes it - works perfect

http://www.prilosecotc.com/

ya, that is a proton pump inhibitor, same thing as the prevacid just a different company and slightly different chemical structure. they both turn off the pumps in your stomach that makes acid. i may give that a try after 2 weeks of the femotidine at 40mgs per day if it dosent work.

my uncle and dad both have to take meds for this also so it definitely seems to be a genetic type thing.

[Bouncer]

I had ulcers back around the time I was coming out of my contest season (lots of shit in my life at the time piled on the stress of prep) - that combined with the drastic changes in my diet after coming off my prep led to the reflux...

My doctor put me on a 4 week schedule of the aciphex to "heal" my problem so that it wouldn't come back (this was about 9 weeks ago) - the only problem is that if it isn't AAS I'm not very religious with shit like that so I kept missing doses for days at a time - I've been back "on" it for about a week solid now and I'm fine - as long as I can stay on it like I'm supposed to for 3 more weeks my doc says it "should" be gone for good considering I don't eat/drink things that continue to affect it....

hey fog, how did you know you had ulcers? what does it feel like?

[coffee-guy]

hey fog, how did you know you had ulcers? what does it feel like?

Usually a dull ache in the pit of my stomach (although sometimes there were sharp pains) - I would occasionally spit up small amounts of blood and food only seemed to make it worse - then my chest would burn from the acid reflux etc and it was almost unbearable to swallow my own spit etc and NOTHING would help - not drinking water - not tums - no anything...

Fortunately (and unfortunately) I knew what the problem was because I used to get ulcers all the time when I was working 100+ hour work weeks operating under a ton of work/personal stress factors - my dad also lives with stress induced ulcers so I knew it was time to head to the doctor as soon as I started feeling the symptoms....

[Bouncer]

Usually a dull ache in the pit of my stomach (although sometimes there were sharp pains) - I would occasionally spit up small amounts of blood and food only seemed to make it worse - then my chest would burn from the acid reflux etc and it was almost unbearable to swallow my own spit etc and NOTHING would help - not drinking water - not tums - no anything...

Fortunately (and unfortunately) I knew what the problem was because I used to get ulcers all the time when I was working 100+ hour work weeks operating under a ton of work/personal stress factors - my dad also lives with stress induced ulcers so I knew it was time to head to the doctor as soon as I started feeling the symptoms....

ok, i was just wondering if maybe i have an ulcer. dosent sound like i do though.

[coffee-guy]

Been to the doctor yet bro?