Posted on 03/13/2024 3:55:36 PM PDT by pollywog
Please pray for my health. I am having several different issues, and I'm not sure if they are related. Acid reflux, sinus infection/headaches.
Pray that I will be wise in knowing just how to treat this and when/if I should seek medical help.
It is keeping me from getting rest at night.
Sometimes doctors can lead us astray.
I did see a gastroenterologist last year. I think it is time I make another appointment. I would like to have a endoscopy.
I take a time release Omeprazole every day. It makes life worth living.
prayer
I started taking omeoprazole last night....
you have my prayers and my love
Just sent a prayer and will send more.
The sinus congestion/headaches are more likely to be related to each other than to the acid reflux. Do you have any allergies? It’s that time of year, at least in Florida.
I’ve already read good advice from other Freepers, so I’ll just add a wedge pillow or a way to not lie all the way down (reclining chair?) plus Gaviscon or Walmart’s equivalent extra strength antacid (works better than Tums for me), should help with the acid reflux.
Prayers up for strength, healing and comfort.
I sent up a prayer just now and will remember you in my regular prayers. I hope and pray you get feeling much better very soon. 🙏
When DH eats yogurt I have to leave the room. Kefir - liquid yogurt - sounds even worse.
I do like sauerkraut.
My wife got it for herself and didn’t like it. I not only sleep with it, but I put it on my neck when I sit at the computer.
hadn’t thought of sinus infection needing antibiotics...hmmmmm
Bananas give me raging reflux.
I cannot believe the wealth of information and advice I am getting here on this thread right now.
MM I have been dealing with gum infection and right now am treating it with medication in mouth molds. Never thought it could cause sinus...Another thing for me to check. Thank you!
Thankyou. I need both right now... God bless you!
prayers up.
On Wednesday, the journal Neurology published an attention-grabbing study, reporting a possible link between taking heartburn medications like Prilosec and developing dementia. It generated scary-sounding headlines and reanimated a conversation about the safety of the medications — and, simultaneously, questions about how the general public should understand conflicting results from medical studies.I have been fine without it.The latest publication looked at data gathered from people enrolled in an ongoing study that began in 1987 and looked at the long-term health of 5,700 study participants who didn’t have dementia when they first enrolled in the study.
Notably, the study wasn’t originally designed to study dementia risk from these drugs. But in combing through the collected data, the researchers found that participants who took proton pump inhibitors — medications like omeprazole (brand name Prilosec), often abbreviated as PPIs — for more than four and a half years were about 33 percent more likely to develop dementia later on than people not on the medications.
https://www.vox.com/health/2023/8/10/23827408/dementia-heartburn-proton-pump-inhibitors-ppi-prilosec
This article seems to downplay it, but when you think about it, why take the risk?
FATHER GOD,
Thank you for being our healer, GREAT PHYSICIAN.
May HOLY SPIRIT fill dear pollywog, cleanse her, and make her whole. Restart her digestive system the way it is supposed to work.
Help her to eat wholesome foods and take supplements that will not set off acid reflux.
We give you all praise, glory, and honor.
In JESUS’ Name we pray. By His stripes we are healed. AMEN>
Sometimes doctors can lead us astray.
Prayers up Polly. My father once told me when I was a young man, “doctors bury their mistakes”. Don’t take their word as gospel.
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