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Hi All,

Just thought I would update you on this one.

Having spent the last few days in hospital I have finally got a diagnosis for my pain. It took an ultrasound, CT scan and then finally an endoscopy ( mouth end) to find it.

I have a hiatus hernia. I'll let you do the googling but it is still causing me to feel rough. I feel full and sick most of the time. After all the fasting periods in hospital I have lost 1.2 since this started just over two weeks ago and starting to look drained at only 63kg.

I used to have a great appetite which has gone. I ate a jacket potato for dinner last night the size of a tennis ball and it felt like I was going to explode afterwards

I have been placed on some lanzoprole tablets that are some kind of anti acid. Looks like I have to change my diet a bit and cut of the things that make it worse and see how I get on. I have a follow up appointment in 3 months.

Adrian

Indy51 said:

As frustrating as it's been, it must be a huge relief to have finally received a diagnosis?

One of the best things I found helpful for reflux was removing wheat and other grains from my diet. Hope you can sort out a diet that helps you.

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Yes it is a relief and now I can take the steps to reduce the symptoms.

I have a restricted diet at the moment as I am a coeliac , which means I don't eat wheat , oats and other gluten containing products. The advice given from the doctor in hospital was to cut out the high acid foods.

When I research hiatus hernia diets it mentions to avoid quite a lot of things to avoid such as dairy, caffeine and more.

Whilst I was in and out of hospital just the smallest amount of any food made me double up but now I'm home and taking the meds and watching what I eat I seem to have beat the pain.

I'm keeping a log of the foods I eat and hope to keep on top of it . The biggest thing is finding something to drink. I used to drink water , tea / coffee and sugar free orange squash but all these seen to be on the avoid list apart from the water.
There was mention to avoid mints and spices so I guess that rules out fruit/green teas :s



Adrian

Thanks again for the comments and yes a lot fb experimenting to do.

Good advice about raising the bed, I was told none of this when I left hospital. Not so keen to hear that it may trouble me for life. It's going to be difficult to get the nhs to operate as being admitted those 4 times in just over a week wasn't enough although as you say, give the meds time to kick in.

I guess that this isn't something that will just go away if i just take the meds?

Thanks again all.
Adrian