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ugh! Heartburn!

ugh! Heartburn!

What is with the heartburn!? Holy crow, enough already!

Up until recently I never had heartburn except for during my pregnancies. In my first pregnancy it was my husband(who is a longtime heartburn sufferer) who clued me in as to what I was feeling, I had never had it before, I didn't know that's what heartburn felt like, had never really thought about it actually. As soon as that pregnancy was over the heartburn went away, and I meant instantly! As soon as I delivered I didn't feel it again until my next pregnancy, then the same thing again, it was gone as soon as I delivered. That was almost 9 years ago.

Fast forward to about a year or so ago and I suddenly started getting a little bit of heartburn if I had more than one glass of iced tea. Now our iced tea up here is not like the south iced tea that's actually made out of tea, it's the powdered stuff that actually doesn't even taste like tea. We drink it a lot though and always have, so I was a little puzzled as to why all of a sudden it was causing me problems. I have to admit I was a little scared at first since I had only ever had heartburn while pregnant, fortunately I was not pregnant again, but I was left with the question then of why was I getting heartburn?

Over the past year since then I still cannot have more than one glass of iced tea, I pretty much don't have it at all anymore. But then in the summer the heartburn started to become a little more frequent. Then about a month or so ago it started getting REALLY bad! In the past few weeks I have had heartburn almost every day and now along with it what I believe is acid reflux. Thank goodness the Rolaids soft chews work pretty good and can usually ease the discomfort, and on my husbands advice I've been drinking a bit of milk when I feel it coming and it seems to help a little bit too.

I still don't know why I'm getting it though. I can't seem to pinpoint certain foods or drinks contributing to it because it's pretty much every day, and besides, my diet has not changed at all, I eat and drink the same things I always have and they have never bothered me before. And it wasn't even all that gradual, it was like *poof* here's some bad heartburn for you.

The only thing I can think of is it being maybe stress related. I'm a stressed out sort of person, when I have no stress I'm stressed. Shortly after this bad heartburn started a little over a month ago, my husband got laid off and is still laid off, so right now I definitely have some stress and major worry. And for a couple of weeks before he got laid off I had that bad feeling thing telling me something was going to happen, just something that I felt. We've had enough bad luck in our years together that it's like I have this little radar that detects when something is going to happen, so even though his job loss was a complete shock to us, the fact that something happened was not a complete shock to me.

So, so far stress is the only thing that I can guess is the cause of my heartburn, whether I'm right about that I have no clue! I will go to the doctor, but until the hubby starts work again I have no prescription coverage, and I already know one prescription I'm pretty sure I will leave the doctors office with for other things. So I need to wait to see the doctor until we have coverage again, if I need meds because of the heartburn issue I have no idea how much it would cost without coverage, but I know the other prescription I need is very expensive without it.

My husband goes tomorrow for a supposed "final" interview with a company he's been in talks with for over a month. If he finally gets the job offer we've been waiting for I'm pretty sure they said his medical coverage would start in 30 days. So hopefully he gets this so we can get that 30 days gone and get ourselves to the doctor again! It's time for the yearly check-up anyway!


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ahem, hmm, umm, ok, well I guess I'm slowly figuring out what this is about, not completely clear yet. My friend Rene(subscribe to her, she's awesome :) ), she told me about this site, and well Rene and I are a little addicted to signing up for almost anything, so here I am!

I have a couple of other blogs, see the feeds to the side :), so I don't know how good I will be at keeping up with this place too LOL.


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