Christmas is cancelled yet again!

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:08 pm

I get that sometimes, normally if i go to the cafe for a big fryup then crack on with work.

Good ol gaviscon

Doesnt work every time though

cranbrook2 · Post by **cranbrook2** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:10 pm

I have heard of it and i do think we have it. I was using a tablet called pariet and that didn,t work so i am trying another pill now called Nexium .
This has been going on for a year now so i am going to see a specialist in the first week of January . It took 10 months to get a appointment.

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:15 pm

10 months, that must be on a par with our NHS

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:22 pm

It's not pleasant having to live with it whilst you wait for an appointment. I had it when I was in my twenties and ended up taking tablets for stomach ulcers because they thought that was the cause, I used to drink lots of milk and eat yoghourt to soothe the burning.

cranbrook2 · Post by **cranbrook2** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:28 pm

I was rushed to the hospital a few months ago because of the pain and they thought i was having a heart attack.
The pain can be very scary and intense . I have been drinking lots of milk today to keep it settled down as much as possible . I have had 3 ulcers already.

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:42 pm

Hi John, mrs.woody has a hiatus hernia and used to drink gallons of gaviscon for acid, then around a year ago she was prescribed nexium, she now reckons it's the best. She is supposed to take one per day but sometimes goes 2 or 3 day's without needing one. Hope you get a remedy for yours because i can remember how much discomfort it caused mrs.woody

village idiot · Post by **village idiot** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:50 pm

when mrs vi was pregnant with our eldest she would drink ambrosia custard straight from the carton, about a litre a day

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:51 pm

I must have been pregnant once or twice then, cos' i love that as well.

cranbrook2 · Post by **cranbrook2** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:01 pm

I sure hope this mess goes away soon because it is really interfering with my beer drinking

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:07 pm

I bet you're keeping the dairy farmers though!

The Weegie · Post by **The Weegie** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:43 pm

I remember I was hill walking in the lake district. Came off the hill after having been walking for several hours. Started to feel a sharp pain in the middle of my chest. It was like a crushing pain. I ended up collapsing onto the road. My wife was shouting oh my god I will need to get an ambulance. I was like no no Just leave it it will go away. After about 5 minutes it eased. Jumped in the car drove as fast as I could to my local A&E. Strapped me to loads of heart monitor stuff. After several hours they diagnosed. Heartburn

I was prescribed medication which does control the pain. It was a terrible pain that thankfully I have never had again

The Weegie · Post by **The Weegie** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:46 pm

Oh by the way I am sitting here having just been told by my G.P that I have tonsilitis

I feel like shi..

There goes my christmas dinner.

The plus side is I now have a good excuse to avoid the in laws over christmas

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:01 pm

The Weegie wrote:I remember I was hill walking in the lake district. Came off the hill after having been walking for several hours. Started to feel a sharp pain in the middle of my chest. It was like a crushing pain. I ended up collapsing onto the road. My wife was shouting oh my god I will need to get an ambulance. I was like no no Just leave it it will go away. After about 5 minutes it eased. Jumped in the car drove as fast as I could to my local A&E. Strapped me to loads of heart monitor stuff. After several hours they diagnosed. Heartburn I was prescribed medication which does control the pain. It was a terrible pain that thankfully I have never had again

They say that people with that kind of pain who reckon it is a heart attack almost always have heartburn, and the people who think they just have heartburn are the ones who are having the heart attacks! (Mrs H is a nursey and I must absorb all this stuff via osmosis

)

Better safe then sorry, mind

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:03 pm

cranbrook2 wrote:I sure hope this mess goes away soon because it is really interfering with my beer drinking

That is seriously bad news

you guys got some nice beers up there

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:05 pm

Have you tried gargling with warm salt water or warm water and dissolvable paracetamol. I've had tonsilitis hundreds of times from childhood, the GP wouldn't remove my tonsils though. I gargle if I get it, it helps a little. We get an in law free Crimbo every year, just the four of us!