Starting a few months ago, most days at some mealtime, as I start to eat, my esophagus will constrict like it’s trying to kill my food before it reaches my stomach. The food is already gone, but it’s like God has reached into my neck and gripped just that one tube. Thank God I can breathe, because otherwise I’d be genuinely worried and probably panicked. I connect this somehow to the fact that for years, about every 4 months I would get violent hiccups as I started to eat a meal.
Then it goes away after about 5-10 seconds. I can’t notice a pattern, but the fact that wheat is in so many things makes me wonder if that could be the cause. It’s almost impossible to tell.
Cardinal! Do you have acid reflux? See your doctor and ask to be tested for Schatzki Ring. My husband has this and it can be treated! If you don’t treat it, you’ll eventually have trouble swallowing food all together.
Wow. I do eat more antacids than anyone I know. I consider them essential have-arounds. I sometimes keep them at home, work, AND the glove box.
Now I have to go to freakin doctor. Drat. Yeah, sometimes I have to come barely awake and swallow spit 4-5 times to go back asleep. Man, this board knows everything.
That’s why I get evangelical about this place, despite all the Godless American-Hating Hippie Freaks.
apparently, my settings on facebook have been messed up for months and nobody could actually see my status updates.
People could see my farmville crap, apparently, but nothing I actually said. It was just some kind of glitch. I fixed it by blocking some people and then unblocking them. Then I posted a status asking people to respond if they could see it and voila!
Now I feel like an idiot for being annoyed with my friends for nothing. I didn’t do anything about it (like act like a bitch and not tell them why I was mad) but I still feel like a moron.
I now have two comments on my status (the one that says “If you can see this at all, please comment.”) which is two more than I had before. Which means hopefully soon I can be a normal person who really never thinks about getting comments on status updates.
eta: I’m up to three! Someone “liked” it! wow, I’m popular!
Ack! I hate it when stuff like that happens, then I’m left wondering which is better, that I’m feeling that stupid or how I was feeling before I figured out what was going wrong. :smack: Glad to hear you’re… visible?
I’m no expert, but I beleive you can refuse to accept the new terms. There should be something in the documetnation somewehre about how to do this. It will require you to not make any new purchases with the card, though.
True, but that means they’ll close my account. I’ve had it for years, and the length of credit is important to me and my FICO score.
Believe me, I won’t be making any purchases on the account. On the one hand, I can see why they did it and why they want to get rid of me (I will soon make them no money at all, only cost them money by maintaining an unused account). I just thought since we’d been so goood together for so long…
A few years back, a mini-rants thread clued me in that what I thought were gastric troubles were in fact migraines. Started treating them as such, and they eventually stopped happening.
Fucking hell. I finished my course of antibiotics for my ear infection on Tuesday and I think it’s actually getting worse again now. I woke up in pain and it’s kind of throbbing a little right now. And that’s after I took a couple extra-strength Tylenols with my morning tea.
sweaters and yarn with only 3% cashmere in them should not be allowed to have the word “cashmere” in their names. Especially when they other 97% of the fiber is acrylic.
when people post questions, and say “X TV show made me think of this!”, it’s not necessary to post “X is just a TV show, and is not real”. They know it’s just a TV show. Sometimes, these unrealistic TV shows make you wonder how subjects you’re not familiar with work in the real world. They are not asking if the TV show is realistic, they are saying "I know this isn’t realistic, so how does it really work?"
Not as mini, but mini enough at the moment that I’m not doing a new thread for it:
Uterus, or ovaries or whatever - just do your damn job! One of you lazy bitches is slacking off, and I WILL find out who.
I’m sick. I cannot afford to be sick. I can’t afford to not be at work right now. I have things to do this weekend. I was really hoping that this was just a minor case of the sniffles so I got up and went to work this morning. I feel crappy. My sinuses are a bit congested, but beyond that all I can say is I feel like crap. A little feverish. Very tired. A little achy, maybe. Work is dead slow so I decide to go home. I take my temperature, which is 100.5. Fuck.
I see there have been a couple of other responses, but in my case it is esophageal spasms caused by food allergies. Now that I’ve learned what foods trigger it I’ve adjusted my eating habits. I still eat the foods but I start off with smaller amounts until my esophagus settles down.
I bought Omeprazole thanks to the warnings in this thread. Why can’t I take it more than 14 days in a row? What happens when I’m not taking it? I’m beginning to suspect I’m not the real target market for this OTC stuff, and that when I’m off it, my reflux will start again. Man, I don’t want to get prodded and questioned by doctors.
I have this little tiny zit in my ear, the kind that HURTS, but because of where it is, I can’t pop it (it seems like it’s about to come to a head). Dammit!
