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Jun. 24th, 2018 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe ended up going over to a friend's place in the evening yesterday. The original plan had been to go to a metropark, play games in the afternoon/evening, and then watch fireworks, but the weather prediction was rain, so plans shifted.
I wouldn't have gone to the fireworks. Something that long and out of doors would be too much. For the indoor gathering, we were in a place that we could leave pretty easily if I got overwhelmed or headachy or whatever.
Scott and I got food at Zoup on the way. I got what I usually do, the chicken pot pie soup, it tasted different, though, and I started having reflux trouble right after I started my pre-levothyroxine fast. I don't know if they changed the seasoning and now include something I can't have, or if they cross-contaminated with something I couldn't have. The soup tasted as if it had traces of curry which seems like a weird idea for a soup that's supposed to be so basic and bland, and there were curry based soups in the set of offerings.
After I took my levothyroxine and had waited for it to absorb, I had four dates. That stopped the reflux. Apparently, what I need when this happens is more food. I knew that vanilla ice cream would work, but we were halfway through a movie and would have had to leave in order to get some. Water doesn't settle the problem. In general, it makes things worse once the reflux starts.
When we were at Kroger on Friday evening, I looked at something my gastroenterologist recommended-- Gaviscon tablets. She thought that they wouldn't have the same issues with regard to interfering with my meds that, say, Tums do. The liquid version isn't an option for me because things that texture trigger my gag reflex. Sadly, the tablets contain sugar alcohols. It doesn't take very much of those to make me quite sick. I wonder if the liquid version would be damaged by freezing it? If I could get it more solid (or a lot more liquid), I could swallow it more safely.
I wouldn't have gone to the fireworks. Something that long and out of doors would be too much. For the indoor gathering, we were in a place that we could leave pretty easily if I got overwhelmed or headachy or whatever.
Scott and I got food at Zoup on the way. I got what I usually do, the chicken pot pie soup, it tasted different, though, and I started having reflux trouble right after I started my pre-levothyroxine fast. I don't know if they changed the seasoning and now include something I can't have, or if they cross-contaminated with something I couldn't have. The soup tasted as if it had traces of curry which seems like a weird idea for a soup that's supposed to be so basic and bland, and there were curry based soups in the set of offerings.
After I took my levothyroxine and had waited for it to absorb, I had four dates. That stopped the reflux. Apparently, what I need when this happens is more food. I knew that vanilla ice cream would work, but we were halfway through a movie and would have had to leave in order to get some. Water doesn't settle the problem. In general, it makes things worse once the reflux starts.
When we were at Kroger on Friday evening, I looked at something my gastroenterologist recommended-- Gaviscon tablets. She thought that they wouldn't have the same issues with regard to interfering with my meds that, say, Tums do. The liquid version isn't an option for me because things that texture trigger my gag reflex. Sadly, the tablets contain sugar alcohols. It doesn't take very much of those to make me quite sick. I wonder if the liquid version would be damaged by freezing it? If I could get it more solid (or a lot more liquid), I could swallow it more safely.
