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TheNozz said:

I’m going to try going back to baking soda water for curbing acidity.

other updates, after about a week of stopping the PPI, the palpitations have been reduced by about 95%. But I had more frequent AFIB at night. This could be because stomach acid/gas getting too high again. I had half a tsp of baking soda water last night and didn’t have AFIB for the first night in awhile. I hope that’s a good sign.

weight down to 226, ten pounds since 6/2

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Baking soda is bad for GERD, gargling baking soda, even washing your nose with it helps with LPR, as it deactivate stomach enzyme that are eating up your throat,.but again reducing stomach acid should be only if everything else failed.

Try gaviscon, it’s got pretty much the same success rate as ppi for gerd, especialy if you're not retarded, it is slightly harder to use, but has no significant side effect, even long term.

You have to use it after meals,.and not take anything, liquid or solid,.after taking it. Let the gravity do its job, and try to get some of its assistance at night, sleeping with a slight slope. And use 1 or even 2 gavison before going to bed.

Pretty cool stuff to understand how it works :

TheNozz said:

I’m going to try going back to baking soda water for curbing acidity.

other updates, after about a week of stopping the PPI, the palpitations have been reduced by about 95%. But I had more frequent AFIB at night. This could be because stomach acid/gas getting too high again. I had half a tsp of baking soda water last night and didn’t have AFIB for the first night in awhile. I hope that’s a good sign.

weight down to 226, ten pounds since 6/2

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This might sound weird, but if you're accustomed to drinking fluids while you eat, try not drinking anything until 15 minutes after you eat something so your stomach acids won't be diluted and will do their job better. I found this helped me a lot with heartburn, although i still have occassional flare ups. Cutting out most bread and especially enriched flour made a massive difference too, I take a PPI sometimes but it's like ~1 a month now on average and only if i've still got heartburn near bedtime.

I was getting GERD earlier this year and finally realized I have to stop eating like a 20 yesr old. Really committed to eating an early dinner, no sweets in the evening and it cleared itself right up. Stopped relying on Omezaprole as well. I slip up all the time and sure enough, if I eat too late I'm reaching for the Tums at 1 a.m. Gotts be living that Early Bird Special life.

woke up feeling like shit monday, terrible body aches, tue/wed felt better, but weak. thurs woke up at 5am, torso covered in sweat. which persisted till about 9am. no fever, stuffy head, and sore throat. go to doctor, its covid. she screwed up, nurse took at swab and said dr would come in after with the results. she came in early and examined me. then left to get the results. after seeing the positive, she was talking to me from the doorway. my head is all stuffy so i am getting like every other word. asks asks if i want paxlovid. i miss the name, ask what, she says something like it is sorta like tamiflu for covid. say ok, even through don't know what it is.



$72 per pill is a new record for me, specifically something i am not going to take.

anyway, woke up around 4am, shirt soaked, but feel ok. doing well today other than have very little energy.

Goatface said:

woke up feeling like shit monday, terrible body aches, tue/wed felt better, but weak. thurs woke up at 5am, torso covered in sweat. which persisted till about 9am. no fever, stuffy head, and sore throat. go to doctor, its covid. she screwed up, nurse took at swab and said dr would come in after with the results. she came in early and examined me. then left to get the results. after seeing the positive, she was talking to me from the doorway. my head is all stuffy so i am getting like every other word. asks asks if i want paxlovid. i miss the name, ask what, she says something like it is sorta like tamiflu for covid. say ok, even through don't know what it is.

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$72 per pill is a new record for me, specifically something i am not going to take.

anyway, woke up around 4am, shirt soaked, but feel ok. doing well today other than have very little energy.

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The covid sweats are real. My telltale signs both times I got covid were mild fever followed by night sweats for like 5 days.

Paxlovid was real rough for me. Cured me real quick but then I got the covid bounce back which was essentially another bout of covid the next week. I won't take the stuff again. It almost feels like they don't give you enough doses.