Bananas!
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20 years ago I was diagnosed with Gerd and Barrett's. My first symptom was trouble swallowing solid food, pain even with water, pressure, burping. Time went on, trouble breathing and feeling light-headed.
10 years ago I started to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. I am trying to get myself sorted out. Trying to figure out what is a symptom of anxiety and what may be related to reflux.
This is what is confusing me. I have the symptoms of reflux when I eat certain foods however they are not typical and I do not know what foods to eat anymore. I wanted to increase my magnesium levels thinking it may help my anxiety. I started eating more bananas for this reason. I noticed shortly after eating a banana I get all the GERD symptoms, pain, pressure, burping, chest tightness, the list... And yet I can eat freaking nachos chips loaded with hot salsa and be perfectly fine. I am starting to think that I was miss diagnosed or something else is going on. This makes no sense to me. Any ideas.... Thanks.
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Big_baby MarvinMartian
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MarvinMartian Big_baby
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Yes at times. Usually out of breath. Sometimes it feels like a clenched fist in the center of my chest. The clenched fist feeling happens when I have not eaten for a long time. Being unable to breathe or feeling short of breath happens with gas buildup, bloating and burping. Not sure if what I eat causes this or if my anxiety does but the feeling is the same regardless. Originally when first diagnosed with GERD I had no pain but could not swallow and would choke. I lost 30 lb because I was on a liquid only diet. About a year after GERD diagnosis I would get the heart attack like pain and nothing seemed to help except time and uping my PPI's. Mostly I only get that pain on rare occasions anymore if I do something stupid like taking pain meds on an empty stomach. My symptoms that concern me the most is feeling out of breath. Eating a banana will bloat me up and make me burp 3 times a minute. Sometimes the pressure just keeps building up and I cant burp but it feels like I need to. Eventually, I will make a huge burp and I feel fine and can breathe again. We are talking one single banana on an empty stomach. Seriously I have no idea what to eat anymore because the stuff that would cause me trouble in the past does not bother me at all yet other things I thought would be safe do.
debra27175 MarvinMartian
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kate65092 MarvinMartian
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20,years is a long time to be suffering, have you been on ppi all the time?
MarvinMartian kate65092
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I was on PPI's for the first eight years until I developed joint problems in my mid 30's. After that I started to take them on and off as needed. Usually a month on or off at a time. I had to have my gallbladder removed five years ago and found that I no longer needed PPI's at all. So I was free from PPI's for 5 years. What changed though is that my joint pain was easy to agitate at work. I ended up taking a high dosage of prescribed naproxen that seemed to have messed me up a lot. The stomach issues returned along with stupid amounts of anxiety. Just trying to balance my symptoms out. I don't like being on PPI's all the time and the fact that I can eat tomatoes and onions but not bananas is not making sense from my past experiences,
kate65092 MarvinMartian
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nancyphn MarvinMartian
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