Indigestion

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Aaargh. Crippling. Like a stab in the heart everytime I breathe in and swallow.

Nobody has Rennies or equivilant.

It's making my head swim, geez I can hardly concentrate.

My office is in the middle of nowhere, there's no option to 'pop out to the shop'. I feel like a wuss, it's ONLY indigestion after all, but it's killing me.

Or is it something more sinister?

Anyone else ever get bouts of this - or heartburn - out of the blue?

I'm not a regular sufferer...

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Chew gum, especially if it's peppermint?

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

This place is deserted. I've found one piece of Wrigleys in my bag, I'm chewing it now.

It tastes of perfume.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, someone at work must have mints.

Or glugging down some fizzy mineral water helps too.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also, get tepid (i.e. not cold) water, and sip it very slowly. This will dillute the acid in your stomach. But be sure to sip it very slowly.

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I'm going to try the water thing. (It'll taste mental now after the chewing gum)

Is it true that lying down makes it worse?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have indigestion pretty much all of the time. It's because I don't know how to eat properly. And possibly because I have mild allergies or intolerances that I haven't been bothered to find out about.

I don't have any cures, sorry. Have some sympathy instead.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Cathy. I couldn't imagine having this all the time!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

try ginger ale more

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

You poor baby. I know indigestion very well, being a delicate sort. Kate is OTM about the water. Lots of it, about a liter, usually does the trick for me. Dilute it, wash it through.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sipping water and it seems to be easing. Thanks for that tip, I'd never have thought of it, I feared swallowing more air and making it worse.

Does winding work as well for adults as it does for babies, or would it be a waste of time asking for a back rub the next time I get this?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I get indigestion a lot and the best cure is a nice glass of milk.
We always have milk in the office fridge in great quantity, people say don't use it for cereals and drinking etc. but my desire to cure my (crippling) indigestion surely has to take higher priority than their need for coco-pops, no?
Anyway, fuck 'em.
George x

― George C, Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought milk was short term relief for long term pain. Isn't it difficult to digest?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Back rub would help, but I wouldn't suggest asking any of your colleagues, unless you're completely comfortable with them! Rubbing you're belly clockwise (as you look down, if that makes sense!) might help, too.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Why clockwise?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Because that's the way the food goes through your intestines?

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

And the milk thing doesn't work if you're lactose intolerant!

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the milk thing didn't work because it was full of proteins and fats that make your stomach produce more acid, even if you aren't lactose intolerant.

(when did 'lactose intolerance' get invented? Everyone drank milk when I were a lad)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Gah. I am plagued by sneak attacks of this in the middle of the night and occasionally in the afternoon. Exacerbated by sweets (particularly ice cream), too much tea, and alcohol. Slow-sipping water works. Milk makes it worse for me.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

We always have milk in the office fridge in great quantity, people say don't use it for cereals and drinking etc.

What else are you supposed to use it for besides drinking? Aesthetic completion of the fridge? This is like when my mom would buy delicious fruits and forbid her family from eating them because they looked pretty in the kitchen. They didn't look so pretty when they rotted, did they?

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Only weird freaky mutant Northern Europeans have the ability to digest milk as adults. Most of the normal, unmutated people in the world lose the ability to drink milk as they grow past the age that they would normally be getting it.

― I ate myself. I want a pie. (kate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think of drinking milk when I'm sick because I imagine the gastric juices curdling it nastily in my stomach. The thought just makes me sicker.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I blame Margaret Thatcher for lactic intolerance ;)

― George C, Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Was about five mins from wheezing to herself to order me an ambulance a while back. Roiling like a ewe with triplets, extremeties tingling, no breath, fairly unable to speak

Mixture of ginger tea, rennies, glugs of warm water and deep breathing sorted me out after a very dodge half hour or so

This is what i get for wolfing down a bag of Tesco licorice isnt it

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 December 2020 21:45 (four years ago)

yes. take it easy on that stuff. licorice in large quantities is a known health risk.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, 13 December 2020 21:47 (four years ago)

Excessive consumption of liquorice (more than 2 mg/kg/day of pure glycyrrhizinic acid, a liquorice component) may result in adverse effects,[6] such as hypokalemia, increased blood pressure, muscle weakness,[7] and death.[8]

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 December 2020 21:50 (four years ago)

You werent fuckin kidding

Tho i guess i didnt presume (even had i known) that tesco version would be purrrrraaaa

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 December 2020 21:51 (four years ago)

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