Finding Help When You Suffer From Acid Reflux

It is important to surround yourself with resources and support when you are dealing with acid reflux especially when you are newly diagnosed with acid reflux.Your doctor can steer you in the...

It is important to surround yourself with resources and support when you are dealing with acid reflux especially when you are newly diagnosed with acid reflux.

Your doctor can steer you in the direction of some general helpful resources including some community support groups. You can also find some great online support forums and Websites with useful information about living with acid reflux. You are not the only one living with acid reflux so get out there and find others who can relate to what you are going through and can tell you what methods have worked for them when dealing with acid reflux. Read on to discover some useful resources and support networks for when you are dealing with acid reflux.

When you network with others who also have acid reflux you can share tips for how to eat and stay comfortable, find medications that others are taking that do not aggravate their symptoms of reflux, and discover other alternative treatments that you can explore with your doctor including lifestyle changes that may benefit you. Google the keywords, “GERD forum” or “acid reflux forum” in order to find some online networks.

There are lots of places on the world wide web that contain very useful information for those who have acid reflux, here are just a few places that you can explore:

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/ now at the top of the site in the search box type the words, “acid reflux” and you will see a listing of links to explore.

Go to this URL and then chose from the links on the left in the white box:

http://www.gerd.com/consumer/

http://forums.healthcentral.com/discussion/acid-reflux/forums

At the above link you will find the AcidRefluxConnection.com at HealthCentral.com explore the My-AcidReflux Boards on the page.

Books to help you cope:

Eating for Acid Reflux: A Handbook and Cookbook for Those with Heartburn by Jill Sklar, and Annabel Cohen

Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Acid Reflux: Nutrition You Can Live With by Elaine Magee

Chronic Heartburn: Managing Acid Reflux and GERD Through Understanding, Diet and Lifestyle — Includes More than 100 Recipes by Barbara E. Wendland

How To Stop Heartburn by Anil Minocha

Healthy Digestion the Natural Way by D. Lindsey Berkson

Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies by Carol Ann Rinzler

Check out better nutrition: The shopping magazine for natural living and what Emily A. Kane, ND, LAc has to say about Aloe for acid reflux by going here:

http://www.betternutrition.com/document/629

A list of acid reflux forums:

http://www.reflux1.com/forum/index.cfm?cas_checked=1&userid=0

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/gastro/messages/36766.html

http://www.revolutionhealth.com/forums/digestive/acid-reflux

Use this article to get you started on the road to finding good resources and support locally and online. Don’t forget to get any information your doctor has for you regarding support groups and resources.

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