Hormonal heartburn

nikismithwin

I think mother nature is trying to prevent me from getting pregnant by giving me indigestion on the day of the month I'm supposed to be ovulating. Its been happening for about a year now. I had never experienced heartburn before and maybe that's not even what this is. It hurts so bad and there's so much pressure i throw up. It only lasts for one day and only once a month. When it first started I tried Pepto, acv, baking soda, then tums, then gaviscon, none of it helps. I'd rather not go to the Dr for a pill I have to take every day for a symptom that only happens once a month. I'm sure it's hormones I just don't know what to do about it. Anyone else? Suggestions?

Sabine_Stroehm

Gosh, I hope you get an answer to this! In my 40s I used to get morning sickness during ovulation. Nausea, a real desire to barf, inability to hold food except crackers down. Fortunately it only happened every few months.

nikismithwin

Thanks, @Sabine_Stroehm I turned 43 this year and it seems to have come with the birthday lol. I'm not really sure what it is. I just know I've been tracking it for awhile now and it comes right about the same time every month, on about the 12th day of my cycle. So I think it's got to be hormone related and because of my age I just sort of thought maybe it was a perimenopause thing. I wake up fine in the morning and then a few hours later my tummy starts to feel upset and I think I must be hungry but then the food doesn't seem to want to go past my diaphragm and no matter how much or little I eat the pressure just builds until I'm miserable and vomiting. And then the next day or even later that night it miraculously disappears and I'm fine. Not really worth going to the dr for but I would like to prevent it from happening every month.

Sabine_Stroehm

nikismithwin wrote: »

Thanks, @Sabine_Stroehm I turned 43 this year and it seems to have come with the birthday lol. I'm not really sure what it is. I just know I've been tracking it for awhile now and it comes right about the same time every month, on about the 12th day of my cycle. So I think it's got to be hormone related and because of my age I just sort of thought maybe it was a perimenopause thing. I wake up fine in the morning and then a few hours later my tummy starts to feel upset and I think I must be hungry but then the food doesn't seem to want to go past my diaphragm and no matter how much or little I eat the pressure just builds until I'm miserable and vomiting. And then the next day or even later that night it miraculously disappears and I'm fine. Not really worth going to the dr for but I would like to prevent it from happening every month.

That does sound like what I experienced, at around that age or a couple of years later, maybe 45. You just get it more often than I did. I'm pretty sure it IS hormone related. A surge of something, or lack of expected surge of something. Ultimately, my doc gave me an anti nausea med, but frankly, crackers helped more.

MostlyWater

Yuck!