Heart burn?

[Sugaree]

This just started today.

See my doctor put me on this little blue pill that's supposed to take down stress and when I took it this morning it turned out fine.

Then when I went to go down to school my chest started hurting and I thought that since I just woke up and I didn't stretch out so I thought that was it.

So then I go downstairs for school and the next thing I feel is what felt like a tiny crab claw pinching the inside of my throat. Then I took a cough drop to ease it for a while. After that failed it felt like my esophagus was on fire.

I think that it might be heart burn. Can anybody help me?

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Sounds rather like heart burn to me. A lot of medications can cause that, they can be hard for your stomach to digest. Try taking the pill will food, or a lot of water, to help neutralize the acid it's taking to digest the pill. Or there are over-the-counter medications such as Tagamet, or Pepto Bismol (take the pill form of Pepto though, the liquid is all chalky and nasty), that can really help. If it doesn't get better, or having to take heartburn stuffs whenever you take your pills is a hassle, talk to your doctor about switching medications.

[Sugaree]

Ok then thankyou Teeny's Sis. I really appreciate that :)

[Sapphire]

Yea, that's most probably heart burn. Heart burn is caused by excess stomach acid. Stress may/may not be causing this but either way, get some stuff to sort it out over the counter. I know for definite that you can get capsules and chewy tablets for this.

[Gumleaf]

i find that dairy foods help me a lot when i have heart burn occassionaly. drinking milk and eating ice cream helps, it sought helps reduce that high amount of acid that causes the heart burn.

[RaisingSand]

It's heart burn. Go to the supermarket and get some Gaviscon, you'll be fine.

Also, eating ice cream and drinking milk sure works fine. If you want to vomit. While it's true that milk products line your stomach (this is why the antacid Mylanta looks and tastses milky) and can help indigestion, it's really not recommended to just consume normal milk products, as they can actually make you feel worse due to all the additives that's put in them these days. just stick with something Gaviscon or Pepto Bismol (from memory, I think that's the name of a common antacid over there?).

[Gumleaf]

It's heart burn. Go to the supermarket and get some Gaviscon, you'll be fine.

Also, eating ice cream and drinking milk sure works fine. If you want to vomit. While it's true that milk products line your stomach (this is why the antacid Mylanta looks and tastses milky) and can help indigestion, it's really not recommended to just consume normal milk products, as they can actually make you feel worse due to all the additives that's put in them these days. just stick with something Gaviscon or Pepto Bismol (from memory, I think that's the name of a common antacid over there?).


okies lauren. but drinking milk etc has worked for me fine so its just a suggestion.

[RaisingSand]

What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for everybody. :P

[byee]

No, I'd bet that the heart burn is a reaction/side effect of that 'little blue pill' the doctor just started you on. Medications have side effects, this might be one of them, he needs to determine how serious it is and what to do. You need to call your doc and tell him so he can properly advise the best course of action.

Call your doc.

[RaisingSand]

That sort of goes without saying, but why call the doctor? He probably already knows that the medication has side effects. Heart burn is managable with stuff you already have at home and can get from the supermarket. There's not really anything he can do about it that you can't already do yourself.

[Sapphire]

I must say, I agree with Lauren. Don't bother calling your doctor as they will just tell you to take something for the heartburn which you can buy over the counter.

[byee]

Since pain is an indication of something being somewhat wrong (to what degree we do not know), and the OP was just started on medication, the prudent thing to do is assume the symptom is caused by the medication. We also should assume that he was told of any side effects at that time, too. So, since we don't have all the info here, the OP is complaining of pain of some significance, and we are hardly in the position to make a diagnosis and offer treatment, it seems the most prudent thing to do is make a quick telephone call to at least alert the doc of the symptom and let him decide if it warrants further investigation or some OTC remedy.

FWIW, the safest thing to do is to check with the doc.

[Sapphire]

If it is caused by the medication then he should have been told about it and it will be mentioned in the information leaflet that comes with the medication.
It could be completely unrelated.

[Sugaree]

okies lauren. but drinking milk etc has worked for me fine so its just a suggestion.
That's what I did yesterday. I drank a good portion of milk etc. It helped a lot.

No, I'd bet that the heart burn is a reaction/side effect of that 'little blue pill' the doctor just started you on

The strange thing is that she didn't say that there were any types of side effects. Well I took it this morning and nothing has happened as of now.

[Sapphire]

Check the information leaflet that came inside your packet of medication. If it is listed as a possible side effect then that's probably what it is. If not then it's not related to the medication you are on.
Either way, the over the counter remedies for heart burn will help.

[Maverick]

Or if you can't find it go look at the medicine bottle and see what the name of the pill is and check for info online.

What have you eaten in the past couple days? Anything spicy?

[RaisingSand]

What Ant said. And Sam, he doesn't really need to call the doctor. GP's are usually busy enough without having to deal without a patient who's having a minor side effect (which could also be totally unrelated), especially one that can be treated at home with over the counter antacids. IMO you are overreacting. We don't need to make this any more serious that it already is and create more hypochondriacs.
I agree that if this continues he should consult his doctor, but not for just an one off thing. He's not dying or in any serious harm. If this continues for more than three days or so, that's when you call your doc and ask whether or not it's being caused by the medication.

[Sugaree]

What have you eaten in the past couple days? Anything spicy?

Well I have eaten nothing spicy. Last night I had some roast chicken for dinner with some mashed potatoes and gravy but nothing spicy. I'm not a big fan for that.

[[EDIt for today]] It's come back and I'm trying to drink all the milk I can. It's worse than before.