Pepto Bismol is my friend

[soleft]

Seriously, it is a miracle drug for me.

I have a hiatal hernia - a wonderful condition where your stomach actually pops through the hole in your diaphram where your esophegus goes thru. Every month or so I have an attack. Never sure what brings it on, could be my posture, something I hate, wearing something too tight around my middrift.

As soon as I feel an attack coming on, if I can get to a bottle of Pepto within the first 30 seconds, the attack stops immediately.

If I can't get Pepto into me during that window, I'm in for at least a half an hour of the most excrutiating pain I've ever felt in my life. On par with childbirth.

So I keep Pepto with me at all times - like nitro glicerin.

Anybody else have a drug that they have to keep with them at all times.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Tums...I eat them like candy.

Severe Gerd here and heck, they're good for calcium. Have you ever thought about surgery soleft? That really sounds painful.

Hugs,Laura

[soleft]

3. Supposedly weight loss would help

Haven't given up on that route yet. What's gerd?

[Loonman]

2. Tums and Prilosec

Always have some on hand.