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Date: 2007-01-13 10:04 pm (UTC)
Apparently I have developed Barrett's Esophagus.

Drag. :(

my mother piped up and said, "Oh I've had acid reflux since I was pregnant with you. I just take (X drug) for it and I'm fine." Something I hadn't known before. So whatever this is, it's probably hereditary.

Could be ... it's certainly common. A lot of people in my orbits have ongoing acid issues. There were over 22 million prescriptions for lansoprazole as Prevacid in the US in 2005 (that's more than for fluoxetine/Prozac), another 7+ million for omeprazole, another 12+ million for ranitidine. And that's not even counting the regular OTC acid-reducer and antacid gulpers.
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