Indigestion

OK, I should have known - the tube goes down!

Interesting about sleeping on the left. I've slept on the right for years because I read/heard somewhere that it was better for the heart. I think I'll roll over now!

Just going to check the differences between colonoscopy, gastroscopy and endoscopy!

I had a gastroscopy just over a year ago. It was uncomfortable rather than painful.
I did have a lovely nurse holding me still and reassuring me throughout which really helped a lot.

jingle I have only just seen your remark to me or I would have replied sooner. I was NOT referring to a 'random French doctor ' but to my Medicin Traitent which is my GP here in France. He is an extremely GOOD doctor and not only a local doctor but he trains interns and teaches at the local hospital - a man who is probably far more experienced than any GP you have ever been to!!! He spends time with people and actually listens to what they have to say.
I would not just write anything on here or pass on a tip and opinion like that if I considered it to be either random or likely to be false. I have found this does in fact WORK for me.

Thanks for all your advice I guess its just more than tests until they find the answer

And not go into autopilot.

Inside, Galen! Round sittingroom (anti-clockwise), along the hall, into study/diningroom, round table (clockwise) back along hall, round sittingroom (anti-clockwise) etc etc until hall clock says I have done 15 minutes. Alternating directions is to keep my cornering balanced, also it means I've to stay alert and go into autopilot.

Anyone passing along the pavement might see me pass the windows, but they are unlikely to hang about to see me going round and round and call out the van with the men in white coats.

Elegran inside or outside the house? (Vision of Elegrans neighbors peering out from behind net curtains at elderly lady circumperambulating a house for half an hour while firmly gripping a pair of tall sticks!)

Nannybob. Both jingle and myself (and others) suffer from LPG (silent reflux)
You don't get the burning, but what you do have ( in my case) is a permanent sore/painful throat, earache, sometimes your teeth hurt, and now it's affecting my breathing.
You are continually clearing your throat. NO medication works for me. I've been on savage diets, nothing changed. I've had the cameras done.
Now I'm going to the Royle London hospital on 11 April where they will put a camera down for 24hrs to see what is happening. It's called a 24 hr ph Monertering system. I'm not holding my breath though, because as Jingle and I know, they are all in the dark on this one.
One odd thing that keeps coming up is: lots of people developed this after a bad viryl infection, which is when mine came on.

nannybob The 'that's nice' didn't ^really mean anything was nice. It just mocking myself for, possibly, too much information.

Silent reflux is where you get aerosol acid, or even just fumes (!) coming up into your throat and mouth. It makes you cough and giv es you a nasty sour taste in your mouth pretty well all the time. The real name for it is laryngeal pharyngeal reflux. (LPR)

Love the Alpine poles round the house Elegran.

I made a difference to night-time reflux. Tried extra pillows - I just slid down off them, or got a crick in my neck. The bed is too heavy for me to lift up the head to put something under the legs.

Eventually I got fed up of keeping Ranitidine and Remagel beside the bed - I decided to eat my largest meal in the middle of the day, and very little thereafter. No bedtime drink.

After eating, I walk for 15 minutes to help the food get digested and move on. If I don't go out I just walk around the house (gripping Alpine poles - not because I need them. but to make sure I keep walking and don't get distracted into doing anything else.)

I found one unexpected bonus - I have lost 4lb in as many weeks. I think it is because I am not all that hungry at lunchtime, so I eat less than I would have done at an evening meal, plus half-an-hour a day of walking must be doing some good.

I think a lot of the treatments for gastric problems are trial and error. Lansoprazole is a ppi which dampens the acid production, lessen the acid in your stomach and you struggle to digest your food. Less acid in the stomach also meant, in my case, I was more prone to tummy bugs.
Apple is long known to aid digestion, some suggest grating the apple.
Lying on your left side is correct, the way the stomach is positioned makes it more comfortable.
If you have had endoscopies and they show NAD I would go with a colonoscopy, problems in the bowel sometimes present as stomach symptoms.

What is nice? Jinglebellsfrocks . Also what is silent reflux?

nannybob I think mine is because everything is sagging down structurally on me. (there's nice) but you are not old enough for that.

They prescribe it because, so far, it's a he best answer they have. 'They' are working on it. As I said it works very well for the he acid indigestion I was having. Nothing works for silent reflux. Doctors know this. Except of course for Nissen which seems to have a 70 - 90 per cent success rate.. (Thank you doctor Google)

I do not understand why doctors keep giving me indigestion remedies when they are clearly not working. I need to get to the bottom of it because there is obviously an underlying problem and its I am at my wits end.

GP's hand omeprazole out because it's an easier option than monitoring someones diet over a period of time.

I wonder who it's best to believe, your own GP, guided by NICE, or some remote French doctor. Sorry Welshwife but I think it's actually irresponsible to put that kind of thing on a forum such as this.

Thanks for the tip welshwife will give the apples a go. Anything is worth a try as its agony when it starts

I have suffered with acid reflux for some years - endoscopy showed nothing wrong. The GP said to continue with Gaviscon and watch my diet to see what triggered it. I know if I have rich meal and get reflux I will have it for a few days whatever I eat or drink. Orange or grapefruit juice is always a no no. A couple if months ago I read that raw apples were good for reflux - deciding there was nothing to lose I started eating one a bit after a meal and one in the evening - 2 or 3 most days. I noticed a huge improvement.
When I told the French GP he said that when you chew the apple it becomes very light and floats on the surface of the stomach sealing it in a similar way to Gaviscon. He said to take Gaviscon and eat the apples was a far better solution than the Omniprazle as all those drugs do eventually do something to your intestines - he went into graphic details which I can only remember the gist of.
Also if you sleep on your left the stomach is in a better position than when you are on your right - I had discovered that for myself and once again the GP explained why that was.

No jinglebellsfrocks they are not the most pleasant procedure but hey ho I suppose we have to grin and bear it.

I don't want to have an endoscopy. I really don't. #wuss

Might ask doctor for that then jinglebellsfrocks

I was getting a lot of acid indigestion. The doctor put me on 10 mgs Omeprazole which stopped it. I now get silent reflux. LPR. I rarely get acid indigestion now though.