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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Acid Reflux help

(here is the disclaimer, I am NOT a doctor nor a nurse, I have not formally studied medicine)
I do tend to try things out on myself. I tried out calming my stomach issues with the baby gripe water which worked a little bit. Yesterday I started looking into Potassium because I had been getting cramps in my legs in the middle of the night and feeling faint with my heart doing some funny quick steps to add to everything else. I went to the chemist asked for Potassium, the chemist made me up a bottle of Potassium Chloride 600mg, I had one tablet when we got back at about 3 - 4 pm and another at about 2 am when I needed to get up. Get this I have not had acid reflux for over 12 hours now :-). I feel like I have hit the acid reflux jackpot. So ladies if you are thinking of copying please check with your doctor/ OB or midwife first. This is the first time I have felt so human for so long for at least 6 months. I still got a bit of leg cramp last night but it was shorter than the other few nights. I have found a link this morning showing others using Potassium for reflux since http://www.heartburnreliefblog.com/heartburn-relief/potassium-helpful-
for-heartburn-relief-21/

And I will let you know how I go :-)