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distancia
Registered: Aug 30, 2009
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    Nov 17, 2009 at 06:26 PMReply with quote#1
I don't THINK my D has a medical problem because her tummy doesn't always hurt after eating. However, she has complained--on and off-about heartburn, bloating, and swollen feeling about half the time.

I have noticed that this seems to occur when she has a) eaten a meal   AND b) had a copius quantity of beverage during or directly before/after the meal.

We do restrict the carbonated beverages in the home but when she is out she will occasionally pick up a 20 oz Perrier or iced tea and then walk in and sit down to dinner and eat, all the while drinking her beverage and then helping herself to a 2nd beverage.

Today we were out and daughter complained of extreme thirst so she drank not 1 but 2 diet Root Beers, each 20 oz...then we got home 10 minutes later and d ate a full lunch and she has been in discomfort ever since, 2 hours later.

Also I remember this used to happened when she first had an ED 2 years ago, when she was in recovery we would stop at Starbucks every day for her to get a drink, she would get an iced latte decaf something, the big one, and she would guzzle the whole drink by the time we had pulled into the driveway, a mere 1.4 miles (3 minutes) away from Starbucks.  She literally guzzles these drinks, she doesn't sip at all...

Can this be the cause?  How can we get her to stop/slow down?
   
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