What are you doing at this moment?

[RandyS]

I used to get that. I finally had to start omeprazole (standard 20mg/day dose). Then after a while, I'd start waking up to a sudden rush of bile in my throat again accompanied by horrible pains. I had to start taking 40mg/day!!!

Three Tums would only ever give me a few minutes of relief if I didn't have my omeprazole.

I've finally been able to wean myself down to 20mg/day again, but I hope to be able to cut it out someday.

"Healing purple pill" my ass.

Yep. My doctor put me on Omperazole too, although mine are green and blue. Been off the purple ones for a couple of years now. I don't want to bad mouth it, because it DOES help, but if I didn't have tums to fall back on I'd be up shit creek without a paddle.

 

[Sibyl]

Yep. My doctor put me on Omperazole too, although mine are green and blue. Been off the purple ones for a couple of years now. I don't want to bad mouth it, because it DOES help, but if I didn't have tums to fall back on I'd be up shit creek without a paddle.

Ugh. I'm sorry.

I've never taken Nexium, but I've taken Omeprazole for nearly 10 years or so. My reflux became so bad I had to start taking 40mg daily or, like you, I'd need to have my Tums handy at all times on 20mg.

I've just gone back down to 20mg after a few years and thankfully I'm not having any issues yet.

 

[Delta Vega]

Do you use Tums? That often helps me more than the doctor prescribed medicine I have.

I haven't tried them, no
I have Omeprazole on prescription
They work 80% of the time
I find that Rennie's are a good substitute

 

[Delta Vega]

I used to get that. I finally had to start omeprazole (standard 20mg/day dose). Then after a while, I'd start waking up to a sudden rush of bile in my throat again accompanied by horrible pains. I had to start taking 40mg/day!!!

Three Tums would only ever give me a few minutes of relief if I didn't have my omeprazole.

I've finally been able to wean myself down to 20mg/day again, but I hope to be able to cut it out someday.

"Healing purple pill" my ass.

I'm on a similar dosage of Omeprazole, some nights they simply don't work
I find that dairy products late at night like eggs or toasted chees are what makes my reflux worse, so I try and avoid.

 

[RandyS]

^Now that's interesting. When I use food to treat my stomach acid I've found that plain vanilla ice cream works best. I've been eating it (no longer think of it as a desert, just medicine now) that way for about 22 years. My mom thought it was the milk in it, but on my next attack after telling her about it I tried a glass of milk, but it didn't work.

 

[Sibyl]

...It's my party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to...

 

[Delta Vega]

I'm trying to come down after a fizzing row

 

[Velocity]

Listening to my son talk about his job...and being very happy that I'm retired.

 

[Sibyl]

Passing time and planning what I'll be doing in a bit in my basement so that I can be good and tired so I can sleep most of the day while someone else is working.

 

[Delta Vega]

Getting ready to go and see my psychologist, Dr Doom

 

[Sibyl]

Thinking about how I'd like to put my Etsy shop together.

 

[Sibyl]

Working on my basement, planning more shirts and caps and I just found my mom's old button maker! So now I'll need to add some buttons to my Etsy shop, as well.

I'll also have appliqués that people can iron on themselves and maybe even templates that people can use over and over. I think I'll cut them with my router from acrylic.

And this little one-off chainmail rainbow cross that could be made into a pendant. "Lord" knows I don't need it!

 

[think]

eating peanuts and getting ready ... to drink that only lonely cup of caffeine tea I have mostly in the morning now.

 

[Butters]

I’m watching Death in Paradise, with a glass of wine. I let the kids stay up to watch a documentary while the wife is choir practice. It seems to have paid off and the kids went to bed with relatively little rigmarole.

 

[Velocity]

I'm trying to rewrap an Ace bandage around my knee. I either get it too tight or it starts sliding down my leg in about 20 minutes.

 

[Mrs. Silvercrest]

cooking Thanksgiving dinner!!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

About to brave Black Friday traffic with my sister at the wheel.

 

[Sibyl]

About to brave Black Friday traffic with my sister at the wheel.

Good luck!

I hope you can get every deal you're after.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Good luck!

I hope you can get every deal you're after.

I don't even know about any deals. I've just been drafted to go along. Think good thoughts.

 

[Sibyl]

I don't even know about any deals. I've just been drafted to go along. Think good thoughts.

Ah, conscription!

Positive thoughts coming your way.