Heartburn on the bike

Mountain Bike Mike said:
PRO TIP 🙂
Once you understand how your stomach digests different types of foods and understand what makes your stomach mad, you will be able to begin fixing the constant irritability.

Once you've pissed your stomach off, it takes a while for it to get back to a happy state.
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This is SOOOOOOO true. Indian food kilted my stomach and gave heartburn for two weeks.

After this advice, and research. I feel like a new man lol
 
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Dominos said:
Serious question here.

When doing intervals, or any hard effort, I get heartburn. If I'm doing intervals regularly, I'm getting heartburn morning, noon and night, even when I'm not on the bike.

Anyone else have this happen? Any one have any suggestions to make it go away?

Things I've tried :
Giving up coffee (didn't work, not worth the suffering)
Giving up beans (sort of worked)
Giving up spicy food (didn't work)
Eating tons and tons of Tums (works, but only temporarily)
Drinking less water on the bike (didn't work)
Proton pump inhibitor drugs (works, but there have been studies showing issues with taking these long term).

Nothing seems to make it better.
HELP!
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Holy Turd, me too. This kept me off the bike for the last month or so as I started to get scared turdless as heart disease runs in the family. I got checked out at the docs, he says I'm fine. But I hear ya.
 
Johnny Utah said:
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Holy Turd, me too. This kept me off the bike for the last month or so as I started to get scared turdless as heart disease runs in the family. I got checked out at the docs, he says I'm fine. But I hear ya.
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Dude - some of your food selfies had me thinking how my stomach would've hated me if I ate and drank all that.

This is THE reason I dont drink beer anymore or eat pizza .. Can you imagine how torturous that is?
 
Mountain Bike Mike said:
This is THE reason I dont drink beer anymore or eat pizza .. Can you imagine how torturous that is?
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Having a hard time wrapping my head around this concept.

-So what do put your pizza toppings on?

-Don't you have any respect for all those empty pint glasses?

-What do you eat late night at the pizza joint when you're not drinking all those beers?

-What do you drink before late night trips to the pizza joint after?? Why would you even go????
So confusing.
Brain hurts.
Kill brain with beer.
Think I'll have some pizza later.
 
MadisonDan said:
Having a hard time wrapping my head around this concept.

-So what do put your pizza toppings on?

-Don't you have any respect for all those empty pint glasses?

-What do you eat late night at the pizza joint when you're not drinking all those beers?

-What do you drink before late night trips to the pizza joint after?? Why would you even go????
So confusing.
Brain hurts.
Kill brain with beer.
Think I'll have some pizza later.
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You're tell me... THE STRUGGLE!

Speaking of how upset the toppings are

 
Mountain Bike Mike said:
THE STRUGGLE!!

What used to kill - Drinking beer with food, especially Bacon Cheeseburgers. BAD NEWS!!!! I loved me some heavy IPAs and Stouts[/QUOTE
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Mountain Bike Mike said:
THE STRUGGLE!!

What used to kill - Drinking beer with food, especially Bacon Cheeseburgers. BAD NEWS!!!! I loved me some heavy IPAs and Stouts
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I had two IPA's and a Burger last night......cause 'Merica.

Total respect, but I can't drop the stuff......I love it!
 
I get it if I had too much coffee before a ride.. I do find that the over the counter zantac works fine.. but if you don't want to take a pill, anf this may not be helpful while riding, and I don't even know if they make this anymore but Alka Seltzer used to work great for me.
 
So update after a couple weeks of keeping things in check.
At @Norm's suggestion, I started logging all my food. But that got old really quickly. So I stopped doing that.
But, I have made a few changes which really seem to help.
1) No seltzer, booze, juice or other carbonated drinks. I used to drink 2+ seltzers a day, not that much booze or juice but it all adds up.
2) Laying off the sweets. Probably should be doing this anyway! I had a cheesecake-related episode of heartburn that made me realize this might have been the culprit. Out of the diet has also been Chomps, GUs, sugary beverages.

Things I'm still eating/drinking : Coffee (sorry, I am not functional without it), beans/legumes, spicy food.
So far so good. I sometimes get a minor flare-up of heartburn, but it can be managed with a Tums or 2. Which is a huge improvement!

Thanks for all the input, I'm glad to be back on track and not doing permanent damage to my esophagus!
 
rick81721 said:
See a gastroenterologist. I had gastro-reflux for years - this is not good long-term, untreated can lead to esophagus erosion or cancer. They will likely do an endoscopy to see if there is any damage, then prescribe something to treat the problem. I've been on dexilant (a PPI) for years. My gastroenterologist has no issue with taking this as a permanent solution.
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Doesn't anyone ever think maybe they should not have to take a drug every day?

My wife was having stomach issues and multiple doctors said drugs was the only way. She methodically cut out different things food wise until she found the answer and gluten it was. Now this wasn't for heart burn so not much use to this thread but drugs shouldn't always have to be the answer, or at least not the first thing to try.
 
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stb222 said:
Doesn't anyone ever think maybe they should not have to take a drug every day?

My wife was having stomach issues and multiple doctors said drugs was the only way. She methodically cut out different things food wise until she found the answer and gluten it was. Now this wasn't for heart burn so not much use to this thread but drugs shouldn't always have to be the answer, or at leads not the first thing to try.
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I agree with this but sometimes drugs are the only answer - a lot of this is genetics. I've been on cholesterol medication for over 20 years . I tried diet changes, I get plenty of exercise, tried "natural" treatments - nothing made a difference.
 
rick81721 said:
I agree with this but sometimes drugs are the only answer - a lot of this is genetics. I've been on cholesterol medication for over 20 years . I tried diet changes, I get plenty of exercise, tried "natural" treatments - nothing made a difference.
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At the end of the day did you try being vegetarian? I know meat isn't the cause but just curious how far you took it
 
rick81721 said:
Not fully but ate virtually no red meat for months and made no difference. Kept going up!
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after you retire, re-evaluate your numbers, while following the same routine. you may be able to cut down on your med dosages, cause I'm sure you know those inhibitors really shit on your liver
 
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