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Take care of it before it's too late

by  Randy Elliott
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Randy Elliott

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I suffered from acid reflex for 10 or more years. I should also say I never smoked or drank. Just a 50 year old heavy coffee drinker.

 

After explaining my condition to my primary doctor, he ordered an endoscopy for me. The test showed a possible tumor, but the initial biopsy was ...

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    Vicki M
    Friday, April 11, 2008 at 04:56 PM

    Hi Randy,

     

    What a wonderful story!! Thank you for sharing. You are correct, esophageal cancer is one of the ugly ones. Mostly because people do not catch it as quickly. There is also a pre cancerous condition called Barrett's Esophagus that is caused by acid reflux.  

     

    Good luck and keep us in the loop on how you are doing! Congrats on the weight loss and all of it's good side effects!

    Vicki M


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    virginia crooks
    Friday, May 02, 2008 at 03:55 AM

    thank you im starteing to wake up with the burning  fills like im going to through up.It burns .i takeprilic perc. tonight 2 & 2800 mg of Tagment  it was real bad . i had the tub in my stomit to see how bad .Now its comming back wit vengiens


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