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"Domenic" <arabia1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I really get the sense that doctors really haven't got this Gerd
> figured out at all yet. I honestly believe that one day it will be
> common knowledge that it has a lot to do with arrhythmia and anxiety.
> For eg. when I mentioned to the doc that when I get the feeling to
> burp and I hold it in so as to not make the noise in public I'll
> sometimes throw my heart into tachycardia. He just shrugged, and said
> I don't think its related. Well I don't see how its not if everytime
> I've gone into tachycardia, its been after some sort of burp. I don't
> mean just over 100bps, I mean 170bps range for up to half an hour. If
> that's ever happened to you, you know how scary it can be. I can
> usually get down with breathing and cold air. I don't blame him for
> anything, its just what they're teaching him in the schools. My family
> doctor with a lot more grey believes there is a relationship however.
> Oh well, must be boring you guys.
>
> Thanks for the responses.
>
It doesn't seem so crazy if you consider that the cardiac nerves branch off
of the vagus nerve. If repressing the burp puts pressure on the nerve....
Then there is the poor guy in the Reflux Surgery Support group at Yahoo
whose heart stopped when he swallowed and had to have a pacemaker installed.
Apparently his vagus nerve was damaged by a fundoplication.
I think if you need to burp, you should let it rip and then say "excuse me".
I wish to heck I could burp. I'd probably have a lot less flatulence.
Pam
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