Is it acid reflux, heartburn, or what? Have you had the scope down your throat, does it hurt?
A few years ago I went on a strict diet and lost weight safely. A few months in to the diet after eating alot of fresh pineapple, I started developing a really uncomfortable pain at the top of my stomach, right where the rib cage separates in front. It is kind of a throbbing pain that only happens, now, if I eat fresh pineapple more than 1 day. I eat chocolate, spicy foods, and other citrus and acidic foods regularly and have no symptoms, just with the fresh pineapple. I even have eaten it with cottage cheese to lessen the discomfort because I love it so much. I don’t think it is heartburn because I don’t get any discomfort in my esophogus or any bad taste, etc. Dr. gave me 1 month of Nexium a few yrs ago but it didn’t do much and antacids don’t touch it. I didn’t have any tests done, but I miss my pineapple, and need to diet again and want to do it safely without hurting my digestive tract. Any ideas?
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I’ve been on acid reflux medicine for several years. It was associated with an ulcer. I used Nexium for a couple of years, now I use Prilosec because it’s a lot cheaper and works well for me. That’s me. Now about you-
Go see a doctor. A gastroenterologist is the best source of information. When I had the ulcer, he did the camera-down-my-throat thing. It didn’t hurt because I was somewhere else. The anesthesia is amazing- like a switch. One second I was asking him about how I could breathe and the next second, it was about a half-hour over with. I wasn’t woozy, I wasn’t "drunk," it was just like I was here, and someone snipped something out of my memory. He said I’d have a sore throat, but I didn’t. (I think shoving the camera down your throat can leave your throat tender, but I didn’t have any trouble.)
Pineapple has both sugar and other stuff. My ulcer is aggravated by too much sugars, both natural and refined. Oh, I eat anything I want, but just less than before. Everyone’s different, but you may want to see about eating smaller portions and skipping the Pineapple Diet stuff. Again, this is something you should talk about with a doctor.
Take care,
Rich
An endoscopy (scope down the throat) doesn’t hurt because they give you some medication that makes your mouth taste like bananas and makes you so spacey that you have no clue what’s going on around you. You don’t feel a thing.
Try drinking fresh pineapple juice to see if you get the same feeling. If so, then it must just be something your stomach can’t handle. An ulcer in that location usually causes extreme bloating also.
I does not hurt, they will give you something to numb it but you won’t be able to swallow afterwards very good until it wears off. You may just have to give up the pineapple:-( if nothing else bothers it. I had bad acid reflux & the Nexium cured it.
i have severe reflux, so do you feel a sort of burning feeling or a feeling foods coming a bit up your throat? because thats what reflux is, at least to me, i suppose it could be different for others tho. Although i have felt a pain where you described it. A scope does not hurt, im a teen so they put me under anesthesia, but my parents were partially awake for theirs so im not sure what the would do, but my parents said it just felt a little weird not painful. Could it be the end of your esophagus thats throbbing? Sorry probably not much help, i say talk to a doctor maybe they have a better answer then some teen. lol
Sarah
Most likely the diet you went on, if you are doing the typical American diet, was low in fat. The problem is not fat, but sugar. You need to stay completely away from SOY products that are not fermented, and ALL CANOLA oils. These are really bad oils and the body will suffer if you eat them. Eat olive oil, walnut oil, coconut oil, palm oil, etc.
Acid reflux and so called "heart burn" comes from food that is not being digested, not stomach acid! Doctors are nuts giving you antacids and Prilosec as well as Nexium. These drugs stop the digestive process and cause all kinds of other problems with the body. Drug companies should be put out of business for selling this garbage. Instead, they sold over 40 billion dollars worth of this last year. Then imagine all the drugs they sold to people because of the side effects of this garbage and the diseases it promotes. I am not surprised that none of it helped you.
What happens is simple and they know this. As we age beyond 25 years old or so, our bodies start producing less stomach acid. The cooked foods, food additives, and the aging process cause us to use up the stomach acid we produce at a much faster rate as well. The food that is not being digested rots and ferments. If you take the antacids, you make the problem worse. You feel better because the LACTIC acid (the real acid problem) that is being formed from the rotting, undigested, fermenting food is neutralized, but so is the stomach acid. Now as the food from your stomach enters the jejunum (the upper part of the intestine), the rotting, fermenting food is alkaline and you will not absorb the calcium, magnesium, and zinc in your food because this requires an acidic environment to do so. To further complicate things, as the rotting food moves down through the intestines, the alkaline mixture does not trigger the alkalai to be produced from the intestinal walls so you can absorb other vitamins and minerals.
If you take Betaine HCL (supplemental stomach acid) in a pure form, you will see that your so called acid indigestion will be gone in about 3 minutes because your food will be digesting. Additionally, the stomach acid kills nano bacteria that cause diabetes type II and heart disease. Research clearly shows that about 80% of all diabetes type II comes from this nano bacteria.
The pain you are having from the pineapple could be from an emotional response as well as physical. Chinese medicine has some very interesting techniques that work incredibly well and are very simple. It may sound weird and far out, but you may just need to use a BRT vial placed on your solar plexus for about 20 seconds two times per day for 21 days. At the same time, hold a little pineapple in the same hand with the vial and tell yourself that it’s O.K. to eat pineapple that it had nothing to do with the pain you felt while dieting.
Your brain is very powerful and the way energy flows through your body can greatly affect you physically. The brain remembers any emotional traumas and can cause the physical issues like you are having. Doing this technique will redirect the energy flow through the meridians and realign them.
I cannot tell you to stop taking the antacids, but if it were me I would stay as far away from that garbage as I could. You will notice that it only works for a short while.
Additionally, you need to purchase some pink sea salt and eat at least 1 tsp. of this per day. Put it on food, etc. Stay away from the bleached, nutritionless white table salt you buy in the stores. The pink sea salt will cause you to produce more stomach acid naturally.
If you do the above, even the weird stuff I mentioned (it’s not so weird to chinese doctors), you will most likely never have this problem again and be able to eat the pineapple. If you take the Betaine HCL (3 capsules) + an activator (2 capsules) and a digestive enzyme (1 capsule) after each meal for the rest of your life, you will be amazed at how well you digest your food and a HUGE bonus is that you will add about 30 years to your life! The alternative is to eat nothing but raw food like we were designed to do. The Betaine HCL is the best alternative and your body will love you for it.
Additionally, you have successfully wiped out your intestinal flora as well with the drugs. I strongly recommend you go to: http://www.natren.com/ and order the 3 in 1 probiotic. This is a great product and comes to you in dry ice to preserve the freshness and potency, unlike all the garbage ones you buy in stores.
The Betaine HCL, activator, digestive enzyme, and pink sea salt, and BRT vial can be purchased on line from: http://www.healthline.cc (not .com). This is the best source I’ve been able to find anywhere.
Good luck to you —