About 8-10 weeks ago I started getting heart burn during my daily bike ride. After a couple of weeks, it got bad, and antacids didn't seem very effective.
Went to the Doc. EKG, stress test, cardiac cath, angioplasty and two stents later...my heart burn is gone!
The moral to the story is, if antacids don't make your heartburn go away and stay away, it isn't heart burn, and you should call 911.
Oh, I'm only 43 and exercize every day. Don't think it can't happen.
“Went to the Doc. EKG, stress test, cardiac cath, angioplasty and two stents later...my heart burn is gone!
The moral to the story is, if antacids don’t make your heartburn go away and stay away, it isn’t heart burn, and you should call 911.”
A lot patients in your situation fail with the antacids and that is why the doctors use the anti GERD pills to eliminate that GERD is causing the problem.
You are young to have this condition. However, with the new stents and cardio procedures, you can live a good life.
A doctor friend of ours had similiar problems. He is a biker and power walker and weighs the same as he did in college when he was a runner. The anti GERD pills didn’t work, and he went to the ER and got admitted with atrial flutter.
He had the cardio ablation therapy (link below) and a stent. He is doing great and looks like he is 30 something instead of 60 something.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=cardio%20ablation%20therapy
$inator Hilliarly will kill this great medical system we have in America if she is elected in 2008.