Has anyone else experienced this? I have never in my life (52 yrs.) had any problem with heartburn or acid reflux. But often when I'm doing my swim practices, and pushing hard, I get something like acid reflux - a slight burning in my esophagus. At times it persists throughout the day. I never have a problem on days I don't practice. I've thought of experimenting with calcium pills before workouts, since I know working muscles hard uses a lot of calcium, but I have no basis for thinking that is related.
I'd be interested in any thoughts on its cause, remedies, etc. It's a minor annoyance, but striking for me since I've never had problems of this nature ever before.
Thoughts? Experiences? Solutions?
I have had a couple teammates over the years with the same problem. Gull's advice is no doubt wise, but I personally would tend to agree with your self-diagnosis. If you can get relief from something like Tums, I would go this route instead of the stomach acid blockers like Tagamet.
The more I travel through life's veil of tears, the more I think the less medical intervention you get, the better off you generally are.
Within reason, of course.
Sudden onset of extreme symptoms merit checking out. But vexations like this are probably best self-treated until they become truly significant.
As Arthur Barsky wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1988: " Each producer tries to convince the public that something is dangerously wrong, or about to go wrong, and that immediate steps must be take to remedy the situation...as a result, many come to feel less secure about their health, more worried about the possibility of disease, more absorbed in trivial symptoms."
Turn back from well-meaning advice for further investigations!
Your initial sense of things is almost assuredly correct!
I have had a couple teammates over the years with the same problem. Gull's advice is no doubt wise, but I personally would tend to agree with your self-diagnosis. If you can get relief from something like Tums, I would go this route instead of the stomach acid blockers like Tagamet.
The more I travel through life's veil of tears, the more I think the less medical intervention you get, the better off you generally are.
Within reason, of course.
Sudden onset of extreme symptoms merit checking out. But vexations like this are probably best self-treated until they become truly significant.
As Arthur Barsky wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1988: " Each producer tries to convince the public that something is dangerously wrong, or about to go wrong, and that immediate steps must be take to remedy the situation...as a result, many come to feel less secure about their health, more worried about the possibility of disease, more absorbed in trivial symptoms."
Turn back from well-meaning advice for further investigations!
Your initial sense of things is almost assuredly correct!
