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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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I bet you're keeping the dairy farmers though!

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

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

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

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

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!