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What meds are you on for anti-anxiety and sleep? Do they bother your reflux??
I go back to the doctor on Tuesday and I want to try and get an idea of something that I think would help with my anxiety and sleep but not irritate my reflux like the Remeron and Elavil did. I slept like a baby on Remeron. I slept 12 hours at the least!! I never woke up in the middle of the night with stomach problems when I was on this stuff. Problem is is made me severely C and nauseated!! As soon as I woke up in the morning I was a walking panic attack. It made my anxiety and my reflux sooo much worse!!! But, while I was asleep, I was fine. Does not make sense to me at all.
The Elavil would wake me up in the middle of the night with bad reflux and stomach upset!!!! Cannot do that one at all!!!
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Hi Jaime
#230098 - 12/08/05 10:11 AM
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Cyndy
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I have a question about your spelt bread. All I can find is the dark spelt, not the white. Have you ever tried the dark? Is only the white type safe?
What brand do you buy and where do you find it? Not that I'll be able to find it...but if I had a name I could call around.
thanks for your help
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So squash gives y'all trapped gas as well?
*sigh*
I'm finding more and more that ALL foods do something negative to my poor bod 
For trapped gas...yoga and pilates do more than fennel tea or even the heating pad...just a thought for my po' friend jamie *hugs*
Hope you don't mind me barging in (sheesh I don't even post here regularly) but I peeked in and thought I'd share...
This a.m. the gas was soooo bad but the pilates took it away and even landed me an almost normal BM!!!
Score!  
*hugs* Ruch
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hey cyndy. i actually just finished my bread, so the label's gone with the trash. it is, in fact, white spelt - the dark stuff is most likely whole grain which is, of course, not safe. but edible, if eaten safely. i got mine in the frozen section of a small health food store... it's a place by my mom's house, so, unfortunately, i can't even swing by to check. sorry. good luck.
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no worries about butting in at all!
what yoga poses are especially helpful for trapped gas? (just asking about yoga rather than pilates, too, because i have a background in yoga but not the other.)
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For GAD, I take Buspar. Splitting the pills/crushing them helps tons. Heck, I'll even mix it in some food.
For sleep, I'm taking Temazepam. These will really knock me out for a few hours, but I wake up with that hang-over, fuzzy head feeling.
Kate.
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Hey Kate!
I have 2 bottles of Buspar, but I only took it for a couple of days. My doctor thinks that it might have irritated my IBS. He told me to go off of it. Maybe he might put me back on it, again. Did you have any side effects from it?? Does it help you??
I haven't heard of the other one....I need a good sleep med. I need sleep!!!
I bet you're grumpy, today, huh??? I bet. You quit right around christmas, too! How did you do that??? I always started back up at christmas and would quit again on New Year's Day!! LOL!!!
You Go girl!
Michelle 
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Squash not good for you, either??? What's up with squash!?!? LOL!!
I know how you feel, girl. It seems like sooo many foods affect my body, too. Reflux City! IBS-D attack city!!!
What are we gonna do???
Hey, HAPPY DANCE, HAPPY DANCE!!! (ALMOST NORMAL BM!!) GOOD FOR YOU!! AND KATE, TOO. I saw that she posted somewhere that she's almost normal, too!! WHOOOO HOOOO!!!
I used to do pilates! Maybe I should drag out the DVD's again. I haven't done pilates in like a year!!! It really helps that much??? I never noticed. But, I was stable when I was doing it last year, I think. Thanks for the info. Maybe I will try it out, again......
((((Hugs))))
Michelle
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Honestly, I feel like I'm a character in "Snow White & the Seven Dwarves," except a post-modern version.
I'm definitely Grumpy and going through a lot of Sleepy & Sneezy moments. However, I am Happy, too. It's so weird. Mornings are the worst, no, pardon me--the most challenging.
Re: Buspar
Crushing/breaking the pills and mixing it with food (hiding it in the food) really makes taking it a breeze. If I don't take it with SF food, I will have one of those nauseated reactions. Strangely, I think that Buspar & the Nicoderm Patch are contributing the success of my lifestyle change. BREATHING/yoga exercises and meditation help tons, too.
Kate.
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I don't know how you do it, but keep doing it!! I was so overly anxious when I quit, I could never sleep...not even at night when I was supposed to!! It was very hard for me. I was taking Tylenol PM all the time. Well, until I quit most recently in September. I was on the Remeron then and slept just fine. Da!n, I miss that med!! I slept forever!!! But, I just cannot handle waking up the next day and being so C, overly anxious and nauseated. I wish the doc could find another med that made me sleep just as well without all the side effects. Until then, I just rely on my Unisom. It doesn't put me to sleep until like 6:00am!! Then when I get up at 9:00, I'm groggy and ready to sleep till 12:00 but I can't. Have a starving hubby to fix breakfast for!! LOL!!!
Michelle
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