From the Blog Posts of MSI Press Authors: Elizabeth Mahlou shares a cautionary tale about Nexium
From an older blog post at Clan of Mahlou by Elizabeth Mahlou -- Donnie has a theory that once you start seeing a doctor for one problem, it is all downhill from there. One problem becomes two, two become three... I am not sure that I agree with this theory of progression, but I am not surprised that medicines -- chemicals we were not born with -- can have some unhappy side effects. Recently, I was diagnosed with Barrett's Esophagus, a pre-cancer of the esophagus. Nexium, which controls GERD (apparently, half of my friends suffer from this; my own situation is that the GERD is a result of my 37-year-old hiatal hernia) and usually does a pretty good, at least for me, has some side effects, about which my doctor did not warn me, so I found out in an unpleasant way. A few months ago, I had to have a root canal redone. The endodontist is unsure whether some of the root that had been resorbed would grow back up. Time will tell. Then, during a routine cleaning and x-ray, the dentist d