@lowtide posted:
"Then there are whole industries devoted to managing GERD and reflux, both homeopathic and Western medicine.
More than anyone wanted to hear from me this morning, I’m sure. ?"
Haha @lowtide
And then @seaturtle26 saying
"I have been on a low FODMAP diet for many years now. Nothing else was working for me! I found it on my own - the GI doc I had just wanted to keep running colonoscopies and endoscopies for me only to be diagnosed with IBS and then not really given any solutions at all."
Yep. You two nailed big pieces of the puzzle that is seeking medical help today!
I was busy writing, editing, and adding more and more to my original post before you where frankly that was my very long way of getting to points you both were writing in a couple of sentences and a lot less time!
Slow poke me typing with android data 1 bar signal and on my mobile while actively praying my enormous post wouldn't go poof into cyber space without even showing up here at all!
Sometimes Spirit encourages my trying to help others and other times decides we all learn hard lessons best! Oh the stressful challenges of modern life! ???
I suddenly recalled these posts and just wanted to let everyone know I think I got past whatever was going on. I finally went in and got my regular reading, but...there was an issue. After a day or so, everything settled back down. I'm now waiting for my doctor to call me and let me know if he thinks I ought to get that one area removed. Anyway thanks to all for their input.
Forgive the lengthy story I am compelled to tell. May it help someone the way it helped me.
Part 1:
This information has also helped many people in my family who were hospitalized and nothing seemed to work. I am not a doctor. Please take this information as a story. I am highly sensitive. With that said, I, and many people in my family have had G. I. Symptoms. Antibiotics, though necessary at times wreck havoc on us. When I was in my 40’s I had an acute episode of horrific pressure and pain in my chest that felt like I was having a heart attack. I drove to the hospital and was diagnosed with Gird. It was brought on after taking antibiotics. None of the medicines worked that they gave me. I was in severe pain for weeks. I had all kinds of tests. But, I was way to young to be having any of that. So...I was walking down the street of my small little beach town and I noticed a basement door that was open with a small sign on the door. It read Health Supplies. I have never noticed this business in our town before. I climbed down the stairs and looked around at a curiously limited vitamin store. I then heard a woman say, may I help you. I told her my symptoms and she already had the bottle of pills next to her that she handed me. She said this will help. I give it to the surfers who have ulcers and they say it works. I asked what was in it, and she said, it’s just vitamin b, zink, and something that I can’t remember. I think it was mastic gum. They were two little orange pills a day and they worked like magic. It took all of 2 days and I felt better. She said to take the pills for a month. It cured me. No Gird for me.
Part 2: Meanwhile, my young nephew was also having severe vomiting that had landed him in the hospital for days. He was in and out of the hospital every two months. Doctors had ran test after test. He was in college and his life was completely disrupted for 3 years. No one could figure out what was wrong with him. One doctor diagnosed him with pancreatitis and told us he was an alcoholic at age 20. They said he was lying when he told them he rarely drank. After all the tests and all the theories there was no solution. So, my sister and I went back to the lady in the Basement. It was only a month later, but the store was completely empty and there was no sign of any business. There was no sign that it ever existed. We were desperate so we asked The neighboring store owners if they knew of this Business and where it might have moved to, anything. No one knew what we were talking about. Cutting to the end, I found something similar to the little orange pills that worked for me. You see, my nephew was on antibiotics for a year and a half. He had broken his collarbone playing football. After that, all of his problems began. He was getting so depressed. There was a product, put out by Now, called Ulcetrol that was similar. It worked! One month later all his symptoms were gone. He took it for two months. He is now 27. Never been back to the hospital. Ulcetrol’s ingredients are as follows: calcium 70 mg, zinc 8mg, pepsin g (zinc-l-carnosine complex) 37.5 mg, mastic gum 100mg, slippery elm bark 100mg.
Ulcetrol no longer exists. Now has since changed the formula slightly. It is now called Gastro Comfort: zinc 5mg, pepsin gi 37.5mg, mastic gum 50mg, aloe Vera 50mg, slippery elm bark 100mg.
I have found that this new formula does not work as well. So, I usually double the dose. I also take a good vitamin b complex. I sincerely hope that this information helps anyone experiencing antibiotic irritation of the stomach lining. I hand out bottles of this stuff and always have 6 on hand.