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the_siobhanSaw the specialist this morning. Don't know what the hell I was thinking, booking an appointment on a Saturday morning. Getting out of bed this morning was brutal.
While I was there I ended up dropping $200 on four blood tests. Apparently celiac disease (or whatever it's called) can be detected by looking for antibodies in the blood, but OHIP doesn't cover it.
All the Americans on my f-list can point and laugh at me now.
Apparently I have developed Barrett's Esophagus. Annoying because I'll have to get scoped regularily to keep an eye on it, but otherwise not a big deal. I look upon it as a fair trade for all those pap smears I don't have to get any more.
An interesting tidbit of info came up over the holidays, when I was explaining the whole stomach pain/acid reflux thing to my sister 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.
I am currently on day 6 of no grains whatsoever. I haven't had a single peep from my stomach. Another useful piece of data.
While I was there I ended up dropping $200 on four blood tests. Apparently celiac disease (or whatever it's called) can be detected by looking for antibodies in the blood, but OHIP doesn't cover it.
All the Americans on my f-list can point and laugh at me now.
Apparently I have developed Barrett's Esophagus. Annoying because I'll have to get scoped regularily to keep an eye on it, but otherwise not a big deal. I look upon it as a fair trade for all those pap smears I don't have to get any more.
An interesting tidbit of info came up over the holidays, when I was explaining the whole stomach pain/acid reflux thing to my sister 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.
I am currently on day 6 of no grains whatsoever. I haven't had a single peep from my stomach. Another useful piece of data.
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Date: 2007-01-13 10:04 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2007-01-14 02:25 am (UTC)But also not the worst news. If I can fix the digestion problem it's unlikely to get any worse.
Prevacid is what my doctor put me on. Nasty stuff. Gives me headaches.