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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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333 points glasscannon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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mattgreenrocks ◴[04 Jul 25 13:53 UTC] No.44464592[source]▶
I’ve been dealing with chronic reflux for about 8 mos now. On PPIs and they don’t seem to do much. But once I get away from my typical routine of work/dadding then all the symptoms vanish, even to the point of being able to eat foods that are not good for reflux: spicy things, tomatoes, a bit of coffee. In my case, this is absolutely a downstream symptom of something mind-body. Already been scoped and got a diagnosis of visceral hypersensitivity, which is medical speak for “nerves in esophagus are too sensitive.”

The question of why is out of scope.

In this case, docs just don’t know why. (I think it kinda pisses them off not know, tbh). And finding out is not really in their wheelhouse.

I’ve made some life changes (new job) to see what happens here. But I also have to be prepared for the possibility that it doesn’t fix it. Been working through The Body Keeps The Score as well.

Looking forward to seeing what the author discusses here.

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PixelForg ◴[04 Jul 25 14:53 UTC] No.44465088[source]▶
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9550520/

This exercise fixed it for me. I was diagnosed with GERD last year, I already had it for 2-3 years before that, but it got worse last year. I got ppis for a couple of months and when I finished all of them it came back worse. Fortunately I found this article, and I started doing the exercise daily morning after I woke up(and still do it). I can now eat tomatoes, food with mint, spicy food etc etc :) I have shared my experience with others and it helped them too

Edit - Changed the link, had posted something else by mistake

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vjk800 ◴[04 Jul 25 20:20 UTC] No.44467575[source]▶
How did you implement this? I can't figure out what these instructions in the article mean: "Exercises of dry swallowing in the bridge posture lasted for 4 weeks and were performed ten times per day (Fig. 2). The exercise was performed with 10-s intervals between swallows."

Does this mean that total number of daily dry swallows in bridge position was 10 or 10 times 10 (100)?

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1. PixelForg ◴[04 Jul 25 23:48 UTC] No.44468952[source]▶
You get in the bridge position. And then swallow, wait 10 seconds, and swallow again. So total of 10 times, I'm not sure if I could have kept up with it if I had to swallow 100 times :)