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Irish Grand National

Have to say trainer had a smashing double yesterday so were in red hot form.
Mc Loughlins steeped in Irish National history through Dreaper connection.
Dam sire is Mister Lord who stood locally at Clongeel Stud and got sturdy staying types ; proper NH horses.
 
Slim - don’t get taken in by those Nexium marketing types. They work for the same people who write on your shampoo bottle “rinse and repeat”. I take one Nexium once every TWO days, and it does me.

Apparently, DO, most people either take the Gaviscon or Nexium: you either suffer from one type of acid reflux or the other; and one works, if the other one doesn’t.

My surgery is open all week.
 
Dear Doctor Len,

I've been through the lot. I started off with I-can't-remember-cos-it-must-have-bin-40-years-ago (might have been Zantac?), then moved on to Nexium, then something else, then something else-plus-Gaviscon, then Omeprazole, then double doses of Omeprazole, and following my last stomach scope about two years back was put on to Pantoprazole (which I thought quite appropriate considering the panto that the NHS has been turned into by this government) along with Gaviscon Advance, the surgeon advising me that Gaviscon tablets and the proprietary liquid version are "a waste of time".

At least with Pantoprazole I'm down to one tab per day but I'm also supposed to take GA after meals and at bedtime. It only comes in aniseed flavour, which I don't particularly like, but it's - touch wood - suppressing a fair bit of the problem.

So, no spicy food or neat strong alcohol and I don't eat anything after about 6pm. I can just about manage a korma but I need to cut it a bit with Greek fat-free yoghurt.
 
Dear Patient DO,

You’re doing everything a proper doc tells you to do. If all else fails, I’d stick a Nexium (same as an Omprazole) up my ars; just to adjust the angle, you understand.
 
Len Madeiros said:
Dear Patient DO,

You’re doing everything a proper doc tells you to do. If all else fails, I’d stick a Nexium (same as an Omprazole) up my ars; just to adjust the angle, you understand.
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"Doctor, see those suppositories, see for all the good they done me, I'd be as well sticking them..."
 
Len Madeiros said:
Slim - don’t get taken in by those Nexium marketing types. They work for the same people who write on your shampoo bottle “rinse and repeat”. I take one Nexium once every TWO days, and it does me.
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I could probably get away with one every two days but by day 3 I'd throw myself off a bridge.
 
Also, as emergency relief from heartburn, a glass of water and/ or slice of red apple do a job. Or we could all stop eating and drinking stuff that isn’t not good for us. But that actually defeats the object of being alive. So I won’t be doing that, thank you.
 
Go on flax seeds; no need for expensive over the counter ulcer/reflux remedies, helps keep cholesterol low and puts a shine in your hair better than any rinse and repeat shampoo bottle!

A farmer client of mine who had severe heartburn issues after being attacked by a bull swears by it; he got relief after ten days and has not looked back since.
 
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edgt said:
Go on flax seeds; no need for expensive over the counter ulcer/reflux remedies, helps keep cholesterol low and puts a shine in your hair better than any rinse and repeat shampoo bottle!

A farmer client of mine who had severe heartburn issues after being attacked by a bull swears by it; he got relief after ten days and has not looked back since.
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It's a hiatus hernia I have. Any idea if it would work for that?
 
My good buddy, Gavin, died yesterday. He'd worked in R&D for Reckitt for years on their stomach acid remedies.

I still can't believe that Gav is gone.
 

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