hi, My Grandmother use to say the that food would to digest well do to junkfood, it would get stuck to your digestive track. So she would give us Castor oil (Laxative) every other month to clean us out, my husband started to get a bad, realy bad smelling burp, sick. so the second time he had that smell i gave him some Castor oil, and been giving him some every month, and he has not had that problem any more.
Castor oil works on the small intestine.
hope this helps.

Yesterday I had my endoscopy. They found some polyps in my stomach and removed them, I'll know more about that situation when I see the GI doctor again the first of next month.

Today the asthma is acting up a little, AND my voice is all weak and crackly from the steroids. I'm tempted to go back on the Advair, then I remember how awful my stomach was while I was on it.

I'm just so tired of this. I've been sick for more than three months now, with the occasional afternoon...

He had lots of questions, and he listened to the answers, which is good.

He didn't actually say much, other than that 24-hour-a-day reflux is not a normal side effect of allergy and asthma meds, my symptoms aren't fitting together neatly for him, and he wants to do a new endoscopy to figure out what exactly is going on there. (The last one was 4 years ago in another state, when I had somewhat different symptoms, so yeah, repeating the test is reasonable.)

While we...