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Anyone else on Flecainide and taking famotidine/Pepcid for GERD?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Feb 6 6:57pm | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Dear Gloaming, Happy new year. I’m very interested in your comments about taking ACV. I’m a happy-to-be-alive, 2+year pacemaker person on Eliquis and low dose Famotodine twice a day for silent reflux and (very infrequent) paroxysmal AF. I also have a small hiatal hernia, so am wondering if you know whether the valve you’ve mentioned still works to protect the esophagus in that case?
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I don't have any experience or expertise in the matter of hiatal hernias. My dad had a fundo/whatever-it-was wrap procedure four years ago because of a hiatal hernia, and he feels it was either botched or a waste of time and resources. The pyloric valve is atop the stomach and may, but probably not, protrude through the diaphragm like the hiatal hernia. does. Again, I don't know. But the point is, if it IS the pyloric valve that is not functioning well and you have GERD, it might be worth running ACV past your care provider and seeking his/her concurrence to try it for a week or more.