Problems with Acid Reflux Medications
As with all kinds of prescription medications that you plan on using, you need to do your due diligence and be 100% certain that a medicine is the correct solution for you. When I first experienced acid reflux disease, I didn’t follow my own advice – I went straight to the doctor and was hammered with pills and medications that ultimately did me more harm than good, and what’s more, they didn’t really solve my problems.
I wanted to tell you my story of dealing with Acid Reflux here in hopes that you don’t make the same bad decisions. I should preface this by saying that I am not a doctor, and that I do recognize the benefits of pills and prescription medication for many purposes, just not for this particular problem (you’ll see why). I’m also legally responsible for telling you that what I say is my own opinion (however strong) and cannot be taken as medical advice.
Anyways, my story started when I first went to the doctor to try some of the many options for acid reflux disease that are available. Yeah, I tried a large number of different pills to different effects, and none of them cured more than 60% of my reflux attacks.
As your body adjusts to different levels of the medications, you will experience tired spells, headaches, soreness and all of the other symptoms you’ll notice with regular medication. Luckily for me, I did not experience any of the other stuff that goes along with many of these medications, which, at least to me, seem kind of scary.
Now, not only did they not truly work, but consider that I went back to my doctor dozens of times during the three or four month cycle of trying new pills to get new dosing tweaks and recommendations. Even with my great medical insurance, it became costly in money, and in time. Add to that the cost of the medicines themselves (some of which were $60 or more per bottle – with insurance), and this was a terribly expensive experiment for me.
Let’s talk inconvenience – Most medications are required to be taken between one hour and an hour and a half before you eat a meal. Keep in mind, that’s every meal, every snack. If you’re like me, you eat between 3 and 5 “meals” per day, and you don’t always know for sure when you’re going to be hungry. You might not even have the time to wait for the medication to kick in (like when you need to grab breakfast on the way out the door on your way to work). If you eat a meal without first taking a pill, then you might be in for even more trouble – acid reflux might occur at a stronger level than normal.
All in all, I learned my lesson. I dropped the pill regimen and learned a little bit about the natural “home cures” that you can use to help solve the problem, and many of them worked a lot better than the pills ever did, without much of the inconvenience. As skeptical as I was, I learned that many of these old wives’ tales were actually pretty useful. If you want to try these, I would highly recommend getting this acid reflux solutions guide, which worked very well for me.
