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[honeybun]

Does anyone else have indigestion that lasts off an on for days on end ?

It feels like someone is sitting on my chest and nothing is shifting it at the moment. Of course the more anxious I get about it the worse it gets.
Lansoprazole nor Gaviscon are even touching it this time.
Burping helps for a little while and then back it comes and it's making me miserable.

Help.

Honeybun
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[thorntrees]

I sometimes wonder how much is indigestion and how much is the churned up feeling that anxiety creates, they feel similar to me when I get days like you describe. Eating or not eating doesn't seem to make much difference or taking gaviscon or similar. On the other hand I have no particular reason to be anxious, not that I need a reason these days it just happens!!
Not much help I know, just thinking aloud really.
Hope you feel better soon.

Thorntrees

[CLKD]

Have you lifted something heavy Honeybun or do you lift on a regular basis?  Could it be the intercostal muscles are complaining.

[honeybun]

Not sure CLKD, I don't think it's muscular cause if I can burp it lifts a bit.

Had it before but it's getting me down a bit.


Honeybun
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[CLKD]

Is your gut hungry ? sometimes excess acid can lay around when it is hungry  - DH can hear mine gurgling away …….

Can your DH give you a back rub to ease anything trapped?  Mine does, very gently round and round from the middle of my back upwards and outwards, if it is trapped we can hear/feel it moving ……. I can't burp though

[honeybun]

I will get him to try later.

I'm eating normally so just don't know.


Honeybun
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[CLKD]

Do you swallow any indigestion 'relief' prior to eating?  When I had IBS diagnosed I was given Colpermin and I think Motilllium to swallow within the hour of eating my main meal.  Didn't half make Life at his Mother's difficult  because they ate when they thought they would ……. I eventually began taking my own grub so that I could take the medication as required and then eat ……  .  There were rumblings of discontent and it wasn't my gut! so I told his family to treat me like they would a diabetic, i.e. I had to eat regularly or else!

Are you eating often enough to ease any wind floating around in the upper gut?  Maybe a bread stick/several or round of dry toast mid-afternoon would ease symptoms?

[honeybun]

I've got colpermin somewhere, thanks for the reminder.


Honeybun
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[CLKD]

Within the hour of eating your main meals - I even had to set my alarm clock in those early days so that I could swallow the capsule before brekkies 

I have background indigestion …….. probably from sitting in the car for a couple of hours 

[littleminnie]

What's the difference between heartburn and indigestion?

[CLKD]

Oh a HUGE difference ……….. for me, indigestion is behind the breast bone; a deep ache usually slightly before or after eating.  Heartburn is that: acid reflux where the gut makes a lot of 'liquid' which can rise back into the mouth …… and it burns on the way back 

If I take my meds too late at night and then go to bed it starts 

[honeybun]

Described to a T CLKD.

Really big difference for me too.
After my meal it feels much better but it's still lurking in the background. Still it reassures me that it can go away. Going to fill a hot water bottle later as that is always soothing.


Honeybun
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[CLKD]

I get it 'background' sometimes  ……..

Walking round can help, it gets the gut working downwards  as can having a long soak in the bath rubbing the belly gently …….. DH often calls up 'Jacuzzi working then' ! 

[lindyloo]

Hi honeybun,  I am just the same as you!  Bouts of  indigestion for days!
Makes me miserible, sometimes I know what causes it (nuts) sometimes it's a mystery
All sorts pains under my arm into back at mo,  goes for a while when I burp!
Had scans 3 times for gall stones.... Nothing
Chin up Honeybun,  it will go.....in its own good time,  eat little an often I find helps

Love to you all lindyloo

[Sarai]

I have to say I am lucky indigestion wise but when I get a bit of heartburn I eat a handful of almonds, makes no sense but it works nearly every time.
Al so I gave up all caffeine and then even decaff tea and that has made another big difference to my digestion, I felt I was getting stomach aches after a cup of tea. So I just drink boiled water now, either hot or cold, or coconut water too.
I just wonder with you saying a burp helps it sounds like trapped wind are you swallowing a lot of air during meals or more anxious than normal, though obviously anxiety is built in for us right now.