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Thanks Molly, you know he put me on the fossomax last time and I remember thinking that I didn't want to take a drug that was definitely going to tear my GI tract up worse than it already is...I took it for 3 weeks and quit after I started getting attacks of dysphagia, I had gotten my GI healed pretty well and had no dysphagis for about 7 months and I could tell after just 3 weeeks it was torn up again asnd dysphagia is horrible...you go to swallow a bite and it gets hung up in your throught because of esphogial spasms...and my attacks have lasted as long as 4 hours. I also thought about alternatives when after having to pay over $650 for my meds and after taking them for only 2 days, my pain levels have doubled! So, thank you, thank you...I'm going to have to change my whole routine until I find something that works and I'm going to need help with that, so thank you Molly....



i'll post in bits when i have time today......

so first thought.......

if the fossomax was causing stomach / gerd problems then molly's advice is even more pertinent. i know i won't ever be able to take the meds like fossomax, and from the stuff that molly mentioned (and i've read the same things), maybe its a blessing. so i work hard at the calcium/magnesium/vit D thing, though it turns out my blood D is low (33, the low end of "normal") so i'm upping the D. but my osteopenia has been holding steady (at least not getting worse) since 2002, but i'd like to increase my bone density if i can.

my husband has bad GERD (a genetic thing for him) and food would get stuck in his esophogus because of scar tissue down there. every few years, he'd have a procedure where they'd go down there and snip out the scar tissue. over the years, the years in between get further and further apart and the amount of constricture / scar tissue becomes less and less. meaning that the prilosec really works for him. he used to use mylanta before bedtime as well, but doens't even need it now.

sue