Peata
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sunmountain said:post 99001 Hi Peata,
Yes, I think I'm also now recognizing that what I thought was blood sugar problems might have been stomach acid issues. Good to know that moving dinner earlier and elevating head helped you so much.
I did eat dinner earlier yesterday at 7 and didn't sleep till midnight, though I did lay down elevated on a bunch of pillows until I slept, and I slept with about 2 pillows. So perhaps a proper elevation with the acid pillow that will arrive tomorrow will help.
Thanks for sharing your Pepcid experience; it's very helpful. What's confusing in my case is that I had such a positive response to it starting the day after the endoscopy for a couple of days. It was just as Haidut described. But then since two days the reflux started, and Pepcid isn't working for reflux so far. I am still going to continue Pepcid for now, given it is still helping sleep minus the coughing.
Also I drank a lot fresh OJ yesterday, albeit with baking soda. I'm sure that aggravated things. I'm going off the OJ for now and will try clover honey for the carbs.
I'll try the Carafate today and for a few days. Damn the aluminum. I wish there was a way to chelate it or something. I do intensely dislike the thought of having to drink aluminum.
Good to know you can get back on the coffee. How did you know when your stomach healed?
Glad the dramamine is working for you. I have been taking glycine with tea or coffee, but I read a post I think by Haidut that glycine and taurine raise stomach acid. But I don't know if it's a lot or just a little, so that the benefits outweigh the costs. So I'm a bit unsure about the glycine right now.
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I have to watch about how close or far from bed I eat. Sometimes I'm genuinely hungry and have a snack. For example, I had a small amount of leftover casserole along with some cheese and ginger ale around 9:30 last night, and fell alseep just after 11:30. I slept all night very well. So two hours seems like a reasonable cut off for food before sleep in my situation.
I knew I could have coffee again when it started to appeal and didn't hurt my stomach anymore. The thing is, I'm not sure my stomach will retain its healing due to the assaults of daily life, as it is sort of a daily thing that I have to take care of it. My GI system has always been a weak spot in my body my whole life. If I'm going to consume something that I know will be bad for it, I have to weigh whether it's worth the risk (and sometimes it is, coffee for example almost never bothers if I'm stomach is in good shape) and also take things to keep my stomach buffered, such as the glycine and/or dramamine. Just making sure to have food in my belly first is a big part of taking care of it, both to buffer the stomach and to prevent blood sugar issues and running out of energy like flooring a gas pedal while car is in park, which can result in headaches among other things.
I take glycine with muscle meat for the amino acid balance, and glycine if I'm going to have aspirin, as it seems to buffer it. The raised stomach acid if it caused it, has not seemed to be a problem. I've heard too little stomach acid is bad too. So I dunno, like all this health stuff it can get confusing.
from haidut on the iron chelation thread: "there are a LOT of studies on using thiamine for lead and/or aluminum chelation (lowering both metals Ray would recommend I think) and in fact it is approved as such chelator in some European countries."
I just started taking 500 mg. B1 today but it was for a different reason, and then I came across that info from haidut. I started B1 because of other reasons, such as reducing lactate and ammonia. I believe this is one reason B1 helped me with mental clarity and focus back when I was experimenting with high doses of it (no specific amount but in hundreds of mg daily) back in Fall 2013. As long as I took it with adequate food/sugar, I felt better with it. It's also supposed to help detox estrogen. And I think thiamin (B1) can be depleted rather easy. I do take a B multi some days, but decided to up the B1 either way.
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