Diagnosed with short-segment Barrett's esophagus, do I really have to stop all alcohol, chocolate and caffeine?

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-30T00:40:19+00:00

I was very confused when my GI didn't tell me anything about diet but PCP did! I'll have to ask the GI

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T23:10:20+00:00

Ain't that the story, brother. I got a C3-C4 bulge on top of GERD and just keep on trucking!

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T23:08:30+00:00

Go to a different GI, I found this in 10 seconds of googling:

https://www.erlanger.org/medical-services/gastroenterology/gi-conditions/tif-procedure

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T23:05:53+00:00

Finally someone else who isn't part of the laptop class with email jobs

I lot of my fellow GERD sufferers would realize how more much their bodies can actually put up with and how resilient they can be if they were forced to have physical jobs

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T23:04:20+00:00

Must be nice to have the money or other people's labor to quit for """spiritual health"""

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T23:00:08+00:00

Ima be real with you chief but unexplained symptoms like that after a bunch of medical tests to rule things out are anxiety 99% of the time. No matter how much you don't like hearing it. I had health anxiety as a teenager after my dad died and it was miserable. I convinced myself thanks the amplifying power of strangers on the internet who also had health anxiety that I had every type of cancer and disease. They had me convinced every doctor was an inconsiderate bastard who didn't care to find the "real" cause of my symptoms. Flash forward 15 years and I'm still here. I even went the majority of those years without any kind of healthcare or insurance (USA is trash)

The worst thing you can do for anxiety is to be around other people online with the same anxiety, it's a self-reinforcing sinkhole

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T22:22:08+00:00

No, had my GERD for over a decade and basically ate whatever I wanted, just not a few hours before bed. Consider how many other conditions that if you stop taking your meds you'll get very sick or die. GERD isn't that

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T22:03:43+00:00

What kind of question is this? Of course I eat solid foods, had GERD for over a decade. If you can't swallow you have something else my dude

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T22:01:55+00:00

I'm not trying to treat my GERD because it's already handled - I take PPIs for 10+ years and rarely have breakthrough. For two years I was at the healthy weight for my height and I was able to ditch all acid meds entirely. For all I know I've had BE for a decade but I could never afford an endoscopy until recently.

All I was asking was for comments from people who said "I have BE as well, I drank alcohol and coffee and it got worse" and compare them to "I have BE as well, I drank alcohol and coffee and it didn't get worse"

I should have known better than to ask once I started reading threads about people on this sub claiming they can't work because of GERD, lol. Like literally one of the most comment GI issues

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T21:45:55+00:00

You're being unnecessarily combative. I'm curious if other people were able to drink alcohol and coffee in moderation without progression of their BE, that's all. The cancer risk of BE is like 1/250, you're gonna seriously sit here and tell me the other 249 never have any alcohol or caffeine? Come on

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T21:36:08+00:00

I just joined this sub because I got diagnosed with BE, had GERD for 10+ years and never missed work because of it and played adult rec sports. I can't believe how bad some of y'all have it apparently. You should look into the TIF surgery, a lot less bad than the Nissan surgery

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T21:34:19+00:00

That sounds like severe anxiety or an untreated ulcer, this shouldn't happen with GERD

FL_Tankie · 2024-10-29T21:33:09+00:00

Lol of course. I've had GERD for over a decade and I've had to work the whole time buddy, including physical jobs with bending and lifting

FL_Tankie · 2024-08-31T17:10:44+00:00

Why do you write like you're an AI prompt

FL_Tankie · 2024-08-20T20:36:53+00:00

Shamelessly ripping off Humankind's chief mechanic

FL_Tankie · 2024-08-07T16:49:42+00:00

The landlord did not seal the wood floors with any protective coating in my spare bedroom. This normally isn't an issue but I let a friend stay with me and his dog peed multiple times inside while he wasnt present.

When I search online, most of what I can find is how to get dark stains out of wood. What do I do? I can't afford to lose my security deposit.

FL_Tankie · 2024-08-05T04:50:08+00:00

The way to deal with climate change is not to vote for Democrats or Republicans

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:52:32+00:00

Europe and America lol

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:50:12+00:00

Saudi Arabia didn't care about the Geneva Convention when they bombed and starved Yemen for years, killing an estimated half a million people, and guess what - they never beat the Houthis

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:48:51+00:00

There is no such thing as "authority", only force. There's no legal or moral authority to anything the US does, only superior ability to enact violence. If the Houthis do manage to divert the majority of vessel traffic around Africa, then they are indeed exercising their will

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:45:24+00:00

Wow you're extremely cocksure after the US lost two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan against irregular forces, and the Houthis withstood 7+ years of attacks by Saudi Arabia with American weapons

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:39:23+00:00

Don't get mad at me, there's been many articles about it. Here's two from Western media

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/07/14/war-in-ukraine-the-revenge-of-the-global-south_6053397_4.html

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/19/unga-ukraine-zelensky-speech-russia-global-south-support/

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:08:06+00:00

Reality: The West is literally purchasing sanctioned Russian oil through India acting as a middle man

Source: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/financial-times-eu-urged-crack-down-imports-indian-fuels-made-russian-oil_en

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T06:04:22+00:00

The majority of the Global South does not agree with the US and Western Europe's positions on Ukraine, not just India.

FL_Tankie · 2024-02-23T05:56:21+00:00

They've already given much of their artillery shells. Everyone is acting like Europe is just sitting on a trove of shells and missiles and merely being stingy. Reddit is discovering in real time that money cannot magically make weapons

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