Gaviscon is a fairly small dose of anti acids. It's main effect is to make a sort of paste on the top of the stomach liquids, preventing it for moving up. It's half a teaspoon worth of sodium bicarbonate which won't cause that much trouble, especialy if you just take it before bed.
Define “long-term”. Was having a similar issue to
pharmakos
- cough, throat feeling a bit rough. I’ve really abused my body with alcohol and food over the past year in an attempt to cope with a new job that pushes 80 hour weeks and a constant high bar for performance.
Izo
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sleevedraw
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Gurgeh
Our health care system is 99% public and 1% private. We scan on symptoms and screening programs, obviously. If you want to get in the magnet other than that it's private scanners or mr tourism. Works fine as a whole imho.I’m sure it was discussed while I was away but I suck at searching. Are these full body MRIs a scam? From my research it seems like they can tend to over diagnose with them and try to address stuff that wouldn’t have ever been a problem. Apparently lots of people die of old age and have tumors, cancer etc in their body - doesn’t mean they should have addressed these things type of deal. I’ve only seen one anecdotal story of benefit from someone I know whose wife found she had a brain tumor, a bad one, from one of these scans. Other than that it seems like these things just open a can of worms and they doctors using screening schedules based on age/life style etc are a better choice.
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Much more likely to cause you anxiety and/or undergo a biopsy you don’t need for your incidentaloma than do anything beneficial but nobody can say it would NEVER be beneficial. You would basically never be able to prove this works in a study because even if it did work the study would have to be so mind-boggling large to actually show a mathematical benefit IMOI’m sure it was discussed while I was away but I suck at searching. Are these full body MRIs a scam? From my research it seems like they can tend to over diagnose with them and try to address stuff that wouldn’t have ever been a problem. Apparently lots of people die of old age and have tumors, cancer etc in their body - doesn’t mean they should have addressed these things type of deal. I’ve only seen one anecdotal story of benefit from someone I know whose wife found she had a brain tumor, a bad one, from one of these scans. Other than that it seems like these things just open a can of worms and they doctors using screening schedules based on age/life style etc are a better choice.
Curious to hear thoughts
In my case, I would have LOVED to have a full body mri. I highly doubt all 7 of the back surgeries I had were caused by a bad back, and not the tumor that was pressing on my brain. Won't know for sure for at least 7-8 months (time for body to get over next round of chemo). Consider me a .00000000000001% case though, I told my wife I would not have approved a brain scan if I was my insurance as the math wasn't there.I’m sure it was discussed while I was away but I suck at searching. Are these full body MRIs a scam? From my research it seems like they can tend to over diagnose with them and try to address stuff that wouldn’t have ever been a problem. Apparently lots of people die of old age and have tumors, cancer etc in their body - doesn’t mean they should have addressed these things type of deal. I’ve only seen one anecdotal story of benefit from someone I know whose wife found she had a brain tumor, a bad one, from one of these scans. Other than that it seems like these things just open a can of worms and they doctors using screening schedules based on age/life style etc are a better choice.
Curious to hear thoughts
This is a good take. It was really the conclusion I came to. The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze per se.
that's actually what I was trying to say (poorly) even though in my case it could have been worth it.
You probably want to do something like this to mitigate whatever damage's been done :
I had pretty bad reflux for a while when I was younger, it caused a heital hernia that I had an endoscopy to fix maybe 15 years ago. I was put on a pretty heavy Ranitidine presription for before and after the procedure, then an OTC amount later. Ended up taking those for around 3 years IIRC. Of course they discontinued it for increased cancer risk. Hooray.
