Sorry You Also Have GERD From Eva

Sorry you also have GERD.   Personally, I think it works better in the morning because that is closer to the time I will be eating and when I want it to work, not while I am asleep.  With all my meds, I have learned one thing the Pharmacist taught me --- take a drink of water just before taking any pills then follow it up with a full glass of water to be sure it gets washed all the way out of the esophagus. My friend who I used to work with and lives down in Wales got so deathly sick and ended up with a surgery.  He takes tons of meds and they found that dozens of capsules had settled at the end of his esophagus and he had a huge mass of them that had not done what they were supposed to be doing. Too bad he hadn't gotten my instructions. After my talk with my pharmacist, I read all of the directions that came with my Plavix and that was exactly what it said; water before the pill and plenty of water after.  I know a couple times after taking my Lipitor for high cholesterol before going to sleep, I can tell I didn't wash it down good. I can still feel in throat so I have to get back up and drink a couple more glasses of water.  I do not want to irritate the inside of my esophagus; my neighbor had done that and it was a night mare. She had to go in every six months and have her esoph.  stretched so she could swallow. She also got cancer in hers and that was just awful.  She finally died which was a blessing, but we here in the Courtyard watched her suffer for two or more years with it.  Take good care of yourself.  Love,  Eva  

Are you folks going to the funeral tomorrow? 


Myrna: Yes, we are going to the funeral. 

I also drink lots of water with my meds. However, I have to take my GERD med at night or I would not be able to lie down at all. The acid is so much worse at night. There were a few nights prior to my going to a specialist that I thought I was having a heart attack. I do have scarring. However, the new med is working and I am sleeping. The old med I had to take twice a day and this one, a really new one on the market, has really helped so that I could go to bed and not have to sit upright in a chair all night. I cannot eat anything for three hours before I go to bed. The hiatal hernia keeps the esophagus from closing but because of my blood clot history they do not want to do surgery.