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| Sat, 02-18-2006 - 12:44pm |
dgirl, how are you doing?? Feeling any better?? What's going on in your world?? Keep us posted on how you are doing.
Have a super weekend!






Thanks for thinking of me. Still reading here. I visited the cardiologist last week and had a stress test done. Waiting on those results, but since I didn't notice anything odd during the test, I suspect my heart's fine, right? So the bout of chest pain I had (I'm sure it was distinctly different from the heartburn pain) is really baffling.
As far as the heartburn and other symptoms are concerned, I am not winning the war, yet. I'm going to start adding the Carafate today. That's supposed to coat my stomach and is in addition to the Prevacid. I'm documenting what I eat, but no longer being so restrictive b/c 1) the doctor told me to eat what I want and 2) it doesn't seem there's any correlation at all and 3) I'm hardly one of those happy to lose weight. I'm terrified of losing any more. I'd just like to figure out what's causing it so I can make it all stop. However, if it's due to stress, I'm in a world of trouble. Don't know how to fix that one. :-(
How long should I "wait for the med to kick in" to tell if these drugs are working or not? I mean, the docs have switched my meds on average every 1 to 2 weeks. How long have you waited for a new drug to work before giving up on it. I'm confused but following their directions in the interim.
I'm really curious to know how ariesgirl26 is doing b/c of her chest pain accompanied by other symptoms.
~K
~K
Little bit of an update.
Here we go again...
Just when I think things are getting better, (ability to eat more, bowel movements increasing, heartburn pain lessened) I've felt horrible (heartburn increasing in intensity) all weekend. I thought things were better but don't know if the Carafate is simply masking the burn that's still occuring or what.
My stress test at the cardiologist's came out fine. Don't know what it is that could be causing this. Thought I had an appointment for tomorrow but checked and it's on Friday instead. :-(
So there's gas, bloating (comes & goes,) 2 episodes of chest pain, less frequent bowel movements and the feeling that I have to have one for several days until it happens, burning in the chest constant but in varying intensities, belching, no correlation to diet it seems, resistant to treatment (Prevacid, Carafate, Protonix, AcipHex, 2 days of Reglan, Prilosec) & general all over ill feeling which began November 28 of last year.
~K (wanting a diagnosis, the ill feeling to stop, and no more medical bills, please)
Edited 3/6/2006 7:22 am ET by sapphireperidot
~K