acid reflux??

Hi everyone hope everyone is doing good!! Right now I am having problem with reflux for the last week everytime I lay down everything comes up I am taking my med for gerds but not helping tonight it seem to really gotting bad I can't keep anything down I am pretty sure it is not the flu and I am not stuck just reflux really acting up I plan to call my dr tommorrow morning any ideas of what I should do in the mean time Thanks a head of time
Cathie

Hi Cathie,

I had a bout with reflux, getting worse and worse after a fill.  I was a little too tight.  Of course that is my "unprofessional" opinion.  Best idea to call your Dr. and be sure to tell them your symptons!  Good luck.

Georgie

Thanks what I don't understand is I haven't had a fill since May and I am having the problems now!!

I did go to the dr this morning he did an unfill told me I was very swollen from vomiting and I was dehydrated so noow drink alot fluid and I am on liquids for a few days than puree thean soft than if only tolearte solids than solids I go back in a month unless I have any more problems He told me not to wait so long the next time otherwise I could have real problems
Cathie

Glad you went to the Doc.  Hope you start to feel better.  When my Dr. took out 3 CCs, i instantly felt better.  Went back in 6 weeks...(2 lbs heavier ) but he put back in about 1.5 ccs to start and I go back in 6 more weeks to see how much more to put back in.  I know I should have gone right away, but since I had an appt about 4 weeks away, I just waited.  It really was awful.  I know if it ever happens again, I'm going RIGHT away.  The docs are right, it can cause some bad problems.  Good luck!

Cathie,

I hadn't had a fill for 13 months when I started having reflux in December. No eating problems, no other symptoms, just reflux that meds didn't help. Since my surgeon is on a leave of absence, I'm relying on my gastro-enterologist to figure out what to do. I had an EGD this morning and will have an upper GI study done on Thursday. In the meantime, my gastro doc said to raise the head of my bed by 8" and don't eat 3 hours before bedtime.

Jean

Jean,
 I was sleeping up in a couch because as soon as I put my head down even a litttle bit I was having real problems I stop eating at 6pm didn't go to be till 11-12pm unfornatuly it didn't help so hoping with the unfill this will work Good Luck with your test I hope they fin out what is wrong.
It is such an awful feeling!!
CAthie

I went through this acid reflux hell for months before I went to the doctor.  It was unbearable that I didn't want to eat.  All tests proved nothing wrong so we unfilled to let things rest for a month and then refilled a bit less than what was taken out at time of issue. 

Now I simply have to take meds all the time or I will be suffereing.  I was told some people still have this issue even after surgery and I am just one of them.  If I take my meds I am good but not all of them work for me.  The ONLY thing that has been working for the past 10 months is prevacid 24 hour OTC.  The protonix RX quit working for me. 

Also I do keep me my band on the loser side because of the reflux acting up. 

Did you change reflux meds? Is he planning on doing an upper GI to make sure your esoophagus looks ok?

Hopefully the unfill and the rest will give you some time to get things feeling better.  Hopefully you won't be one of us, like me, that lives with this all the time. 

When you do have bouts of this,  it's best to stay away from anything acidic to aggrivate it more. 

Take Care,
Nikki

Nikki,
right now we are seeing if this works I do take nexium have tried other med but the nexium works best for me. They also thought losing weight would help me with my reflux but it didn't the dr were hoping I could get off the medicine for it but that didn't work They told me I will have reflux the rest of my life What kind of diet do you follow when yours act up really bad??
Cathie

I try to cut back on anything spicy or acidic - tomatoes, acidic fruits, tea/coffee, I even go to straigh****er and milk when it's too bad. And go more bland with my foods for a day or so and definitely while it is acting up.

Mine subsided for a while shortly after surgery but then came back with a vengeance.  I too will have this the rest of my life.

Funny how different meds work for different people.  I tried them all to and the Prevacid was the only thing that has been working for me after the Protonix stopped. Sometimes if it's really bad one day and I can't get it to calm down, I will also take a few generic ranitidine pills.