Re: Heart burn
Unfortunately it's something most of us start to suffer from as we age. Just a few years ago, I could have gone to bed and slept straight after a curry and some beers or even a few rounds of toast but these days I sometimes get heartburn/indigestion even if I haven't eaten for a few hours.Re: Heart burn
My advice would be to find the root cause rather than embarking on long term treatment of symptoms with pills and potions. Heartburn could simply be the result of your digestive system failing to push food through quickly enough. Food and digestive acid is lingering in your stomach when it should have all passed through to the intestines. Could be a blockage somewhere, hernia, inflamed intestines etc etc.Re: Heart burn
Be careful with omeprazole. They hand it out like sweeties and people end up hooked on it for years because it's so difficult to come off it for some. I took it but stopped and the reflux gets worse when you try to quit. I was on ranitidine but now I am not taking anything. Omeprazole is very effective for short term treatment. They have done various studies on long term use of this and other GERD treatments. I'm not sure it causes cancer, but I do think it messes up your body to take these for the rest of your life. I felt so much better after stopping omeprazole. A BFF really struggled to get off them because she would have excrutiating pain on withdrawal. Now she is fine without them.Re: Heart burn
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The reason we get more heartburn as we age is because the sphincter muscle at the bottom of the oesophagus gets weaker allowing stomach acid to escape up your gullet.Re: Heart burn
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