Vets! Please Help! I'm hitting the same wall as last time

[anewdawn]

Last summer I started a really good induction, and about a week into it my stomach and chest started hurting really badly - diagnosis was pre-ulcer and acid reflux.

I ended up on the BRAT diet that babies go on - bananas, rice, applesauce and toast - all straight carbs.

Day 6 I started feeling the esophogas spasms 3 hours after lunch so I knew it was acid, but took my prevacid and ignored it further.

Day 7, I just about blacked out from stomach pain. Granted, I didn't eat very much today - breakfast was 1.5 cups of left over homemade cream of chicken soup, the company brought in rice bowl for lunch, so I ate celery, peapods and grape tomatoes with homemade salmon dill dip that I made from canned salmon, dried dill chives and cream cheese - I wasn't hungry for the salami I had tucked away for emergencies - and I just got progressively sicker as the afternoon went on.

I ate a couple of pieces of steamed broccoli, a couple bites of steamed cabbage, some mushrooms and chicken in a low carb chinese stir fry - but
couldn't eat more than a couple of bites.

I know this program works and I probably have to give up the crunch on the celery - but how do I get through this without serious stomach trouble?

[not2late]

Why would your doctor put you on the BRAT diet for acid reflux? The BRAT diet is for diarrhea type problems.

Anyhow, I think you should consult your doctor, especially if you are already on a medication and it's not working well for you.

[anewdawn]

I'm guessing because it's not hard to digest

I remember when he put the computer chip in my esophogas, he was recommending South Beach to me, but oooh - bad reaction to the mere mention of Atkins - it's my thyroid doc who is cool with it. She's actually read the book and the gastro doc wouldn't bother to read it. His loss - and his patients' loss. (Of course, he does a lot of gastric bypass surgeries too, so I guess Atkins is contraindicated for his bottom line??

An update - I called the thyroid doc - she is pulling me off two medicines designed to help me with the PCOS problems - and she told me to take more enzymes with my meals to help calm down the tummy -she doesn't want me bailing either!

[Porcelain]

Make sure you don't have any caffiene drinks or soda. I too had trouble with acid reflux but it got better after I got off that.