Huh, cool.
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realitista@lemmus.org 10 hours agoAlkaline water does have a place for LPR sufferers like me because it deactivates the pepsin that has vaporized and deposited itself in my esophagus and throat which when activated by acidic foods will begin to digest my soft tissues.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Hey fellow LPR person! Ever looked into baclofen? It’s an oddball, but it helped me and a friend with our LPR.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
No but I will take a look, thanks! Always pursuing any lead on this particular issue ;-).
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
The biggest initial issue for many is that it’s pretty sedating, but that lessens with time. I slept like the dead for the first three weeks as baclofen is one of the few drugs that increases the frequency and duration of deep sleep. Now I can take 100 milligrams in a day and not feel a thing. I have literally no side effects.
One downside is sudden cessation is hell. If I miss an entire day, my anxiety graduallygoes through the roof the following day until I start taking it again. Two days results in gradually increasing hallucinations. All of this reverses within an hour of taking a dose. You must taper off this stuff, but doing it isn’t hard. Just don’t go cold turkey.
It’s also a medication that people tend not to grow resistant to. It hasn’t lost any effectiveness for me despite having taken 60-80mg/day for almost two decades.
I used to have constant burning throat pain and the taste of stomach contents. Not anymore! It reduces the frequency of transient lower esophageal sphincter (LES) relaxation and increases its resting tone. Here’s a relevant paper for anyone interested:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9981648/
Bonus: 20 mg for non-users will halt hiccups but will likely also sedate them pretty hard. 10-20 mg will prevent MDMA hyperthermia.
zout@fedia.io 7 hours ago
TIL, thank you. It indeed makes perfect sense that it would help for this.
Infamousblt@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
This is true for most fad health things. They come from a place of “this is good for one hyper specific medical outcome” and then extrapolate to “this is good for literally all medical outcomes”
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Remember the gluten free phase where people with no gluten alergy whatsoever decided they wanted to eat breads stripped of most of their protien(gluten) because they thought it was healthier.
graymess@hexbear.net 8 hours ago
That’s still unbelievably common where I live. Some restaurants will have zero vegan options, but you can be sure they’ll offer half a dozen clearly marked gluten free items. Come on, you can’t spare the overhead for a block of tofu, but you can keep gluten free breads and pastas?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I’m curious if it’s just additional labeling or new options? Are they just labeling things they already served as gluten free that didn’t have wheat, or are they making new options specifically designed to avoid gluten?
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
And thank God for that fad, now I can actually find food for my celiac wife everywhere.