Heart burn

joeg · April 18, 2017

First day on food like scrambled eggs, refried Beans, cottage cheese and my heart burn is out of control. Can you take time ? Our what else works?

joeg · April 18, 2017

Can you take tums not time

PatientEleventyBillion · April 18, 2017

PPI. Like Zantac/Prevacid/Prilosec/some other stuff people have mentioned.

Some of those foods are also reflux triggers in general. Because you are early on and the focus is healing, probably ask your doctor/surgeon what a safe PPI to take would be. Because your food choice is already limited for the time being, one can't yet be expected to avoid all foods that trigger reflux but it's something to keep in mind once you're at the "I can eat anything" stage.

Edited April 18, 2017 by PatientEleventyBillion

Alegnadelgado · April 18, 2017

Tums works just fine

rainyann · April 18, 2017

6 hours ago, joeg said:

First day on food like scrambled eggs,refried Beans, cottage cheese and my heart burn is out of control. Can you take time ? Our what else works?

I am lucky to not have had any heartburn or reflux... I took Prilosec for 30 days then nothing but was told to let the surgeon know if my stomach started to bother me. This is day 4 off the Prilosec and everything is good so far. I am still on soft foods cottage cheese and scrambled eggs, I have not tried refried Beans, To me it seems that they would be "heavy" in my stomach but I realize that many eat them in this stage. Good luck