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Julie Bove[_2_]

"barbie gee" > wrote in message
crg.pbz...
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> On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> wrote:
>>> I'll point you back to your previous post:
>>>
>>> "Nonsense! I have GERD. Spicy food is not a problem".
>>>
>>> That is just untrue and you would know that if you truly had it.
>>> Granted, not everyone who is diagnosed with GERD has a problem with
>>> spicy foods. That's probably because a lot of people diagnosed with
>>> it don't really have it. You say you were diagnosed with it, yet you
>>> seem to not have any of the typical symptoms. Just like you claim to
>>> have been diagnosed with all kinds of maladies.
>>
>> Actually some people have GERD and no symptoms or none that they relate
>> to
>> it. I did have symptoms for all of my life but my mom kept telling me
>> that
>> they were allergies. The symptom being my frequent throat clearing.
>> Turns
>> out that the reason I was doing that was to clear out the bile that was
>> coming up. It didn't have a burning feeling and I did not otherwise
>> notice
>> it.
>>
>> I did have what I thought was heart pain once following being forced to
>> eat
>> pepperoni which I hate. I was probably around 12 or 13 at the time. We
>
> pepperoni = greasy AND spicy!
>
> so which was it, the spicy or the greasy that gave you GERDy symptoms?

Or the fact that it was meat. I eat very little meat and very little greasy
foods. Both sit in my stomach like a lead weight. Again, I was 12 or 13.
I am 54 now. That is the *only* time I have ever had a symptom like that.
So really, no worries there.