I don't have heartburn.Originally Posted by limitles
Danny boy, if you care to search your own site I said almost the exact thing in my Les Pain thread.
Money would be no object to make this go away and I was thinking esophagus problems.
I think I said 500 hundred but we're in a socialist country
So what's stopping you from getting you arteries looked at?
When symptoms of angina are so closely related to heartburn what in the world
would prevent you from checking out the heart possibilities.
You said you have high blood pressure.... guess what causes that,
arteries narrowed by cholesterol
My symptoms are in the same family as heartburn, but there is no heartburn itself.
I am going back to the ENT doctor (actually another ENT doctor in the same office, as the first doctor is leaving early today), and I will get another opinion of what is going on..
My thought at this point is that I am possibly traveling down the unfortunate road of over-medicating, getting side effects, and then trying to medicate the side effects. Vicious cycle, and often cures cause more harm than the malady. I don't want that. I'm always skeptical of medicines, treatments, procedures, and surgeries. When it comes down to it, we are all just a dollar figure to doctors, pharmaceutical makers, and hospitals, and our own individual suffering is inconsequential. They see us for brief periods, and then we suffer by ourselves, out of their view.
One must be an advocate for their own health. You need to straddle the line between hypochondria/overtreatment and stubbornness/doubt.
Last week, my thinking was, "This is awful, I'll try anything to cure it."
A week later, my new thinking is, "I'm very concerned regarding what all of this treatment is doing to me. Maybe I'm better off trying to fight this naturally -- with diet changes, weight loss, exercise, and keeping my bed at a slope, and see if that solves things."
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