Stomach Problems?
Okay I know it sounds cheezy. I found that eating two tablespoons of HYDROGENATED crunchy Jiff peanut butter right before bedtime has helped me from having heartburn problems. :-))
No lame natural stuff, or it won't even work. It will have long digested before being a value. On the other hand, you can count of the hydrogenated oils to "hang around a spell." At least this will help you get you through the breakfast pill-taking ritual. Especially if you don't eat much (doesn't apply to me) for lunch, then you're stomach is virtually toxic with strong 'medicines.(including vitamins AND too may probiotics at once! They bloat you.) " Good to hit the probiotics DAILY and with STRONG, LIVE GLENDA THE GOOD WITCH BUGS to live comfortably in your stomach (better than DEAD ones, right??) The reason probiotics work especially well for me is the discovery I have Candida as well in my digestive system; and the probiotics cut the nausea effect of colitis seriously.
I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. But Hopefully those of you who suffer these digestive problems won't just rely on your doctor's advice. Do some food tests - do without an entire type of food for 3 weeks and see if you detect a difference. Ditch all the restaurants and cut the salt intake in half. You will see the need to put your own ailing system through double -blind tests for 2-3 weeks at at time to slowly eliminate the real problem causes. No case will be just the same as mine, but the advise works well with many related cases.
The downside: I have to prepare 95 % of ALL my own food to avoid any traces of wheat, soy sauce, yeast extract (it's in 99,9% of all packaged and canned foods), bread, flour, white sugar and all wheat-related products. In fact, I can't drink beer or wine because of the fermentation issue either. Even strong fermented cheese will make me sick. But as a result I eat better than most people and don't get sick. It just takes longer to prepare meals.
My condition was caused by several massive doses of antibiotics, without which I wouldn't have this problem in the first place. I suffered with Colitis for many years and no drugs had any effect. I had to double-blind test by diet to finally find the devil in the closet. I suffered off and on. NOT ONE DOCTOR HAD A CLUE BUT TO PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE THAT WAS USELESS.
The way it works for me is, although you may not have much acid in the tummy before you go to bed, but if you have to take old people pills when you wake up, and they give me heartburn, I immediately take a cup of goat's milk (highly underrated) and a bite of peanut butter. Don't use the natural kinds. I also knew that taking some form of fat bedlore bedtime was better on the stomach lining (also in the AM).
Don't do this if you have any allergies to peanuts!
Now I know you will all offer advice, some good some irrelevant, but may people suffer from this. And please don't send me a pamphlet. :_0)
Randy