Re: Stomach and throat from hell

Those Candida cleanse products sound helpful, but atm I'm using Candidase to see if that will help.

As far as "GERD", I'm aware that alcohol can create a lot of stomach acid, but that goes away once you stop drinking. I've stopped drinking, so if that was the case and it was acid, it would've gone away by now. I can't really buy into the theory that buy drinking a lot I temporarily elevated my acid levels which somehow caused a permanent acid condition. I think if this were the case, we'd see all the bar-goers having reflux, lol.

I've really researched the hell out of reflux and found that heartburn exists but that it's not a disease. It took awhile to find but there are sources out there that mention how GlaxoSmithKline recruited a bunch of gastroenterologists and created the condition brand of "GERD".

I can't really say that I believe people can have weak sphincters. We have a lot of sphincters in our body, another one is the anal sphincter. That doesn't just get lose randomly or stay open. This whole "GERD"/"acid reflux disease" is an extremely new concept. There are really no records of it existing before big pharma started marketing stronger antacids, that's why I am skeptical.

Yes, I have tried Prilosec to no affect. My symptoms also occur regardless of what I eat, when I eat, or how I eat. They are pretty much 24/7. I've had an endoscopy too and they found no irritation, just a small 3-4 cm sliding hiatal hernia, which they said was not causing my problems. Those are said to be incidentally found during an endoscopy.

They also said that if I was having irritation all day with no "episodes"/"attacks", I would have to be refluxing 24/7 and there definitely would've been signs of this in the endoscopy. So the doctors are pretty much confused as well at this point.

I can't really believe the theory that I drank too much alcohol so now I'm going to suffer from a life-long disease, more permanent than cancer, and will have to take medicine my whole life or have surgery. It just isn't realistic and I feel it was crafted by big pharma. I've read a lot of people with real stomach problems that sound like acid reflux that actually regurgitate food, and even they say they've managed to cure it naturally.

Anyway, thank you for the advice but I think I've pretty much ruled out "GERD" :)