What do you recommend?
How do you avoid it?

Drink some milk or eat some rolaids.
Don't eat too much spicy stuff.

e'eeerrrr.

No way I could do either of those. Trying to kill me or something?

let me know when you find out. My insurance has me grabbing my ankles right now over the krap I was taking. I love those POS insurers. "I see you've been taking drug X for a few months. I think that's too expensive, you should be taking drug Y". Since when did those SOBs have their MDs?

Cure:
Drink a cup of the pickling juice from a jar of pickled jalapenos.

How to avoid:
Don't eat the jalapenos.

prilosec otc, once a day. my doctor put me on it about 5 years ago and i have literally not had one second of heartburn since. i used to get it very badly, especially bothersome at night.

Quit dipping Copenhagen, stop the caffeine, not so much spicy stuff. I haven't eaten a rolaid or tum's in 15 yrs. since i have did this.

I usually take Zegerid once a day, if I forget to and have a bout of heartburn, I will grab some baking soda, and eat about a tablespoon of it, and swallow it with a glass of water. Makes for some good burps, and gets rid of the heartburn pretty quick.

Milk is one of the worst things to cure it.

Seriously give this a try, as a old school pharmasist told me about it a few years ago, and damed if it did work.

Eat some celery.

Also, once I was in a bar, and had a terrible case of heartburn. I asked the bartender if they sold Tums, she said no, but then poured me a drink, I seem to recall it being about 3/4 club soda, 1/4 Worcestershire sauce. It tasted terrible, but it worked.

Celery. It works

Hard to swallow a whole stalk of it at once. Took me almost a gallon of milk to get it down. Next time I am gonna cut it up and chew the pieces.

What TexDawg said. I get by with taking one every other day. Celery doesn't work for me.

This works in most cases.

Prop the head of your bed up about four inches.

lay off the caffeine

from the recommendations here I tried celery. didn't really do much. LIVESTRONG.com said celery is somewhat caustic but not anywhere near strong enough to neutrailize stomach acid. there are people who have reported that it worked for them though.

+1, works for me too.

i took a prilosec once and had a headache for 2 solid days but no heart burn

You can always get a cute redhead to rub your breastbone against hers. I bet you wont feel anymore heartburn...

women have breast bones?

By George he's got it !

It's da carbs.

Lay off the bread, pasta, cheese and potatoes for a week and see how you feel.

Nut

It depends on how bad it is. Prilosec may or may not work for you. I have acid reflux and it laughs at Prilosec. I would start out trying it once every other day and if that doesn`t work once a day. If that doesn`t cut it go to the Dr.

it aint for ugly folk

Try Zegrid once a day, that means everyday

i got the ugliest dawg this side of hades

Aids. You're sorry worried about it, you don't even think about the Heatburn.

I had it bad for several years,cut back on drinking beer and dropped about 35lbs.,now i never have it unless I eat something really really hot!

Peppermint tea works pretty well too. I'm gonna have to try the celery trick...

A teaspoon of baking soda mixed with a cup of water can help.

Just don't ever fall in love.




Oh, you said heartburn, not heartache. Carry on.

Saltine crackers, stalk of fresh celery, and a bottle of water.

That was Bitters not worcestershire. It is also good for headaches and hang-overs.

If you sleep on your left side, acid reflux will be reduced

Tums for quick/temporary relief. The purple pill for non-prescription relief. I take omeprazole by prescription and it works pretty well for Gird. On occasion I still have to get up in the middle of the night and chew about 3 Tums....

I have been doing the Prylosec, Omeprazole and Tums thing for a couple of years now. About a week ago, I read online somewhere about the benefits of eating an apple to prevent heartburn. Nothing to lose, so I figured "what the hell". I have been eating a quarter of an apple once or twice a day since and have had no incidence of heartburn. I don't like to take drugs of any kind if I can avoid it.
I happened to have an appointment with my Dr. on an unrelated issue, so I asked him about it. He said "if it works, do it". He mentioned that several of his patients drink apple cider with good results.
I will give celery a shot. Thanks for the tip.

Is it heartburn or is it a heart attack?

Knowing the difference is priceless.

Some of these remedies I have seen can make you DRT if you are having a heart attack.

Dr.Pepper