The thing with the giant list of OMGNO foods, is that every one of them is a food that worsens someone's GERD, but they definitely aren't universally evil. Your diet does very little to determine how acidic your stomach is, so what you're worried about are foods that make your stomach gurglier and more prone to sploot acid out the top. You can test this. Have the evil food, and see if you have gut sorrow. Do this several times on different days, so you know it really is the food, and not random hernia fun times. If it really, consistently makes your gut sad, then you know it's one of the foods on your particular list. If it doesn't, yay, food can still taste good. Meanwhile if you do find a favourite food is making things worse, it's not 100% either. Have it in small amounts - I'm talking bulk, not calories, so the richest chocolate ever but not at the same time as a huge glass of milk - and then stay sitting upright or standing or just not doing power yoga afterward.
Meanwhile, stepping back from the food, if you've never been on a proton-pump inhibitor before, which is hopefully the kind of strong anti-acid they're deploying, you may be amazed what kind of difference it makes, and it may negate a lot of the need for diet modification at all. In some people the stomach contents are suddenly so much less acidic that it doesn't matter if their stomach is constantly spraying the esophagus with goo, it doesn't hurt any more. I had this experience when I had gross evil volcano reflux when I was pregnant - starting a PPI was just totally magical. I hope you have the same good luck with your meds.
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Date: 2012-03-27 02:28 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, stepping back from the food, if you've never been on a proton-pump inhibitor before, which is hopefully the kind of strong anti-acid they're deploying, you may be amazed what kind of difference it makes, and it may negate a lot of the need for diet modification at all. In some people the stomach contents are suddenly so much less acidic that it doesn't matter if their stomach is constantly spraying the esophagus with goo, it doesn't hurt any more. I had this experience when I had gross evil volcano reflux when I was pregnant - starting a PPI was just totally magical. I hope you have the same good luck with your meds.