What is GERD Heartburn
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is defined as chronic symptoms or mucosal damage produced by the abnormal reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus. This is commonly due...
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Gerd and Ex-lax
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Hello everyone. My name is Kily. I have had Gerd for over 20 years and an eating disorder for even longer. Ex-lax causes my Gerd to arise. It burns and hurts so bad, one would think I would just stop. I can't. I'm obsessed with losing weight or maintaing weight, that the ex-lax outweighs the burning and pain. It feels like I have a hole in my stomache. Anybody know if I could do serious harm to my stomach. I take generic prilosec and generic pecid AC along with tums. Sometimes that doesn't help. Just wanted to know if anyone else does what I do.
kily Posted on 08/10/09, 06:08 am |
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no, please talk to your doctor about a safe way to lose weight. ex-lax is not the way to do it. I understand though cause I'd like to lose weight myself. 
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I STARTED AT 127 POUNDS AND WENT TO THE DOCTOR FOR THE GERD TEST. TURNED OUT I HAD BARRETTS ESOPHAGUS AND HAD TO RAISE MY BED BY 6 INCHES AND CHANGE MY DOCTOR. WITHIN MONTHS I WAS DOWN TO 101 WITHOUT EVEN TRYING. IT'S A VERY HARD FOOD CHANGE BUT IT NOT ONLY CAUSES WEIGHT LOSS BUT IT HELPS WITH GERD AND BARRETTS AND I EVEN STOPPED MY NEXIUM, PRILOSEC, ETC.
NO TOMATOES OR ANY TYPE OF CITRUS, NO CHOCOLATE, NO CAFFEINE, NO SUGAR, NO FAT EXCEPT FOR OLIVE OIL, FISH OIL. NO WHITE BREAD OR WHITE ANYTHING. LOTS OF FRUIT EXCEPT FOR THE CITRUS TYPES, LOTS OF FISH, ESPECIALLY SALMON AND TUNA. NO PEPPERMINT OR SPEARMINT AND LOTS OF VEGGIES. NO SODAS EITHER. I AM STILL BAD ABOUT DRINKING DIET PEPSI WITHOUT CAFFEINE BUT I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER WHEN I DON'T DRINK IT. IF YOU NEED A MORE DETAILED (SO CALLED DIET) FEEL FREE TO WRITE ME AND WE CAN TALK. GOOD LUCK AND KNOW THAT IT CAN BE FIXED. IT'S JUST HARD UNTIL YOU GET USE TO IT AND MAKES IT HARD TO EAT OUT! SOFT HUGS
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