Exactly the same as me except more general health anxiety symptoms that turned into real painful symptoms. I learnt about Dr Sarno from Dan's channel on YouTube Pain Free You. So glad you found similar!
At the risk of discounting a genuine anecdote, I feel inclined to point out that the grandparent and parent post exactly model a very trendy type of spam that I've noticed appearing in YouTube comment sections at an ever-growing rate; especially in self-help and financial-advice areas.
I guess it's impossible to prove whether someone's anecdote is genuine or not. I'd at least suggest people try visiting a YouTube financial advice video, read the comments, and you'll see this pattern like every ten comments.
Uh, I wrote my post myself. I am not affiliated with Sarno or his books at all. His books actually offer no kind of treatment method. Their main message is simply that pain originates in the mind and focusing on it only makes it worse.
Edit: I'm pretty sure this is the post that first taught me about Sarno. Just based on my comment like history.
I need to similarly vouch here that I am a real human! I am just a software engineer in the UK with no financial ties to any of this stuff. I just found it the most effective thing after having countless diagnostics, treatments, psychotherapy visits and more. It’s real (at least for me) and I’m so fascinated by it because I’m annoyed it took me so long to discover. 8 years I suffered.
Reflux is solved by MORE acidity or promotion of stomach acid. Lower stomach acid PH means the LES doesn’t close properly. Seems counter intuitive but took me 8 years of symptoms to discover.
Not every case of reflux is caused by the same things. Some people's esophageal sphincter (such as mine does) just... decides to let go at random times. For me, that I can tell, the frequency of that happening isn't really affected +/- by the PH of my stomach acid, but the PH sure has an effect on the consequences.
I am assuming the best thing I can do for it is lose weight, but that's easier said than done.
If you've tried the traditional diet and exercise and couldn't stick to it, don't let the stigma around glp-1s keep you from taking to your doctor about them. They are a powerful tool. Really helped me
I think this is true for a long term solution, but the standard treatment to alleviate symptoms of reflux is to consume antacids, so I think parent's point is still valid.
So hard to teach this to people, even those who've moved past basic understanding. I keep acid/digestive pills near the bedroom in case I have problems with a late meal
They have long term health consequences and reduce your stomach acid quantity enough that the acid doesn't make it's way back up the throat. So it's masking the root cause. The knock-on effect of taking PPIs or H2-blockers is that you end up with lower acidity which means worse food digestion which means being more prone to bugs and bacteria in food not being wiped out before it gets to the small intestine where it can cause bigger issues like SIBO.
Having the right amount of stomach acid and low PH is crucial to keep the whole digestive system, gut motility and more running properly.
Yes they prevent acid but that's masking the root symptom (not enough and not low enough PH to stimulate closure of the LES). Not having enough might seem like it fixes it in the short term, but it causes knock-on effects that mean your food isn't being digested properly and you're more prone to bad bacteria making it's way to the small intestine. Once it gets there, it's very hard to get rid of so be careful on PPIs!
I absolutely can't stand this sort of drivel from people who have never had the pleasure of partaking in a truly creative activity and experiencing how that feels. To them it's just something to be optimised away and automated for the 'benefit' of bringing it to the masses.
I was absolute fuming when I got my letter from them demanding I pay them money. I knew I was closing my company down in the coming years and ignored them in the end. It's crazy this is allowed to be honest.
Well, that's what you get if you lower taxes on businesses. Otherwise some brick and mortar shop might rightfully complain why do I have to pay taxes for regulating companies that ruin my business.
Is it public knowledge how much FAANG companies pay?
>Is it public knowledge how much FAANG companies pay?
The highest tier of fee is £2,900 per year, but you're looking at the wrong regulator - major tech companies invariably use Ireland or Luxembourg as their European headquarters, so most or all of their data processing activities (and subsequent investigation or enforcement) would take place under that jurisdiction.
Yeah, when I got the ICO fee extortion letter, they were put in my total scam category. Even when I realised they had some actual official purpose in collecting fees, I still viewed them as a scam, so they have a PR issue more than anything.
We're being glib, but Jobs' extreme dietary predilections, regardless of whether they contributed to his cancer, definitely weren't motivated by anything that we'd classify as addiction.
I can't comment on all the shortcomings and this may be reflective on my lack of experience with different implementations, but doesn't using GraphQL basically just enable a tonne of unoptimised database queries to occur that, at scale, could cause some serious load issues?
If a certain arrangement makes it more likely to write bad queries, and it requires extra care to write optimal queries, then it’s a worse interface to a database. I bet for really database intensive applications graphQL adds more work than it saves.
You're talking about the implementation of the protocol, right?
That is a good implementation of it, called GraphQL Yoga[0]
However I'm concerned there is a slight disconnect here. I'm saying that the technical specification of GraphQL does not lend itself to being bad, rather its the failure of developers to really understand its purpose and what its for (its a giant aggregator, with various ways to optimally aggregate things together, depending on what is optimal for a given problem set)
For that, I recommend becoming more familiar with the specification itself[1] because thats what I'm talking about. The specification (and thus its technical nature) doesn't prescribe anything regarding how you get data on to the graph. Many people equate GraphQL with database problems[2]
This doesn't mean I don't understand that GraphQL has shortcomings, but all approaches to APIs have short comings. I have found GraphQL has the least amount
[2]: Common complaint I see all the time. I find it stems from a failure to understand how the entirety of GraphQL is meant to work, and some of the mechanics within. Like when to appropriately leverage DataLoader[3], for instance.
A guy on YouTube will help called Pain Free You. Recent studies suggest bad bacteria can continue to flourish if we are chronically stressed (which symptoms like this easily cause). Huge correlation between stress and flare ups for me.
In the short term whilst you work on the mind-body aspect, I recommend taking Digestive Enzymes with each meal along with a Betain HCL + Pepsin supplement. These are the only supplements that removed my symptoms (and trust me I’ve tried them all). They work by ensuring you have the right level of stomach acid to properly digest food, proteins, carbs and fats so that by the time it hits your digestive tract, there’s less undigested FODMAPs for the bacteria to feed off of.
There IS a light at the end of the tunnel.
Happy to chat about this and what I use since I know this can be hard to go through davzie at davzie dot com.
I really appreciate your post. I am still on this journey, and have been for almost a decade. It will not break my will. Digestive enzymes are one of the next things that I will be trying -- I noticed that small amounts of pineapple with my evening meal seem to quell some GI distress.
Anyways, I'm at work now, so hopefully my reply will serve as a nice bookmark to come back to this thread.
I'm tired of my doctors and specialists dismissing all of my attempts at curing myself. They are truly only interested in minimizing symptoms, and NONE of them believe there is a root cause to CURE.
Which brand did you end up using for the enzymes and supplement? It's my understanding that there's sometimes significant differences between brands because it's unregulated so I'm curious about the ones that did work for you.
I've been diagnosed with IBS for 10 years but that's hardly any help, I did notice that reducing fat and reducing wheat seems to help with my symptoms. I've tried a lot of different probiotics but they've been no help so far
I started out with Solgar brand. I found digestive enzymes with Ox Bile to be best and the Betaine I look for minimum 350mg Betaine HCL and minimum 50mg of Pepsin as that appears important to managing symptoms. Probiotics I found just make me feel worse.
I tried probiotics, tonnes of different types, none of them worked, most made it worse.
I tried fasting, a few days eating nothing and drinking only water with a bit of salt. It doesn't really work. The bacteria go into hibernation mode until you start eating again.
I don't drink milk anymore and I tried a low FODMAP diet. The latter helped, but I found it so hard to keep up and it was stressful.
I had every diagnostic under the sun. Chest xrays, stool samples, hydrogen methane breath tests (hydrogen positive). I am 99% convinced it was all caused by stress and the antibiotics I took was the straw that broke the camels back.
Stress triggers flight or fight mode. Chronic stress means you're always in this state which means your body isn't producing the digestive enzymes and stomach acid it needs to maintain correct bacteria levels since you don't need to digest food when you're being chased by a metaphorical tiger, better use that energy to run away instead.
The only probiotic I haven't tried that I would like to try is Symprove which is a refrigerated one that was recommended to me by quite a few pharmacists.
Once I am fully confident my stress levels are very low and I've learnt to manage them I will start to wean off the supplements and see if I get a recurrence of symptoms. I'm not yet fully cured but most importantly I'm on the right track.
Thank you. I'm also on this road. Stress, and inflammation in the body. What helped me was extra hemp-protein powder, forest-berries (=prebiotic) and keeping away from milk, gluten, oat, sugar, alcohol, CITRIC-ACID (this is everywhere! and if you google it, you find that it is causing brain fog like hangover)
And quite a lot of C-vitamin. keeping down the inflammation with tea made from ginger, tumeric and other herbs. Now found out that it can be leaky-gut, and started taking slippery-elm to protect+fix the gut lining. _Should_ also chew the food slowly, but that's not possible usually
Sounds like you've identified that histamine is an issue for you. Vitamin C will clear serum histamine, citric acid is bad since it's a fermented byproduct of black mold (likely triggers histamine release from impurities).
In my IBS journey I had a period where I had very strong histamine intolerance, and vitamin C (in the form of QBC vitamin, quercetin + bromelain + vitamin C) really helped stabilize me. Histamine intolerance often led to chronic insomnia, my heart just would not calm down at night.
thank you and God bless!
I found out about this histamine when drinking wine and after got cramps. But did not find cure for it. B12 which was one aid, normally makes my stomach bad imeadiately. Will try QBC
In my research trying to help myself I've come to the conclusion that histamine intolerance is really more of a symptom of a larger issue. It seems to suggest SIBO or any other sort of inflammatory process in the small intestine. Reason being that dysbiosis (of which SIBO is just one sort) has multiple synergizing effects: not only that often the bacteria associated with dysbiosis will produce lots of histamine through fermentation activity (there's a certain klebsiella type I've seen implicated) but also the dysbiosis causes a cascade of issues that degrades the gut lining which increases the amount of dietary histamine that crosses into the body.
Otherwise I've seen histamine intolerance also suggestive of Crohn's, etc. where the gut lining is chronically damaged.
Like you said wine often reveals it for people, also vinegar, aged cheese, meat or seafood. It's funny that now that I know what to look for I notice when eating with people when they get a stuffy nose right after eating that stuff.
Congratulations on finding stuff that's worked for you! I recognise a lot of similar things that I've tried to cut out or introduce. The body can heal, it's great at that, I think doing all this stuff can help give it the space to do so. I used to think alcohol helped (Gin) and was "killing" the bad bacteria off. But I actually think it just chilled me the fuck out for an evening. Good luck on your journey, we're going to make it! :D
Just as a counterpoint to your anecdote, I actually took a course of antibiotics for a week a few months ago and my stomach issues went away completely. Then they came back when I stopped :(
Probiotics didn't help either. Even the refrigerated ones.
Then I started drinking a half cup of unflavoured gelatin before each meal. Take half a tablespoon of the powdered gelatin, mix with half cup water, wait two minutes to dissolve a bit, down the hatch. It's helped like 75% of the way there.
Also, I started taking anxiety meds because my stomach issues get more triggered when I go out and it's early days but that may help.
Rifaximin / Neomycin has big impacts on it however I do believe if you have stress still, not got good stomach acid and / or not dealing with poor gut motility, it will slowly re-surface.
in case it helps, had a similar situation, one antibiotic helped, others didn’t. turns the one that did also had a anti inflammatory effect which seemed to be reducing a then unknown food allergy.
You can contact me here https://davidt.co.uk for more information but I went through similar issues for 8 years. Taking Betaine HCL and digestive enzymes before each meal has not only completely eradicated all digestive problems but also massively helped my mindset as a result. Essentially some people have chronically low stomach acid and stimulating more with Betaine HCL helps increase the amount of acid, the acidity of the acid and as a result actually closes the LES. When there's enough acid and acidity, the LES closes. If there's not enough it stays loose. This is why PPIs are awful in the long run. It seems like it solves it in the short term but wears off after a while. It also causes all sorts of issues further down the line like IBS and malabsorption of vitamins etc.
I think they benefited from slower runs across the course of days rather than sprints to chase game. Lots of animals are faster than humans, but in order to cool down they have to stop. From what I've read, humans' ability to run and stay cool through sweating allowed them to, over the course of days track and just simply wear out animals to the point the animal would just collapse from exhaustion.
