Keeping A Stomach Heartburn Journal

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Keeping A Stomach Heartburn Journal

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It might not seem like the greatest idea for a book, but if you have stomach heartburn, than keeping a journal about your attacks can prove to be the best thing you ever wrote. Stomach heartburn is a complex condition with a variety of triggers. If you can spot these triggers, then you can avoid painful heartburn attacks by just avoiding the triggers. A stomach heartburn journal can also greatly help your doctor trying to get the bed treatment for you.

A Borrowed Idea

Keeping a journal or written record of your heartburn attacks is an idea borrowed from other medical conditions with very complex triggers. Keeping a journal is also recommended for migraineurs (those who suffer from migraines) or chronic headaches (different from migraines). Keeping a food journal is considered a helpful method for dieting. Keeping any kind of journal about yourself is highly recommended for any psychological disorders.

The Nitty Gritty

Your stomach heartburn journal doesn’t have to be fancy. It doesn’t even have to be hand-written. It could also be a computer program consisting of a template where you fill in the blanks. There are many such forms available for headache and migraine sufferers on the Internet. With a couple of word changes, you can alter those ready-made forms for your stomach heartburn records.

The National Heart Burn Alliance also has a downloadable form for stomach heartburn sufferers on their website at www.heartburnalliance.org/reflux_record.php. You need to have Abode Acrobat PDF reader in order to access these forms. If you have Microsoft Word XP or higher, than you already have Abode Acrobat installed in your computer.

All you need to do is note a few things about your attacks. You need the date, the time of the attack (even just day or night will do), what you ate or drank last and any other factors that you think may have contributed to the attack. These factors could include bending over from the waist, wearing tight clothing or severe emotional upset. You could also note if any medicines seem to bring some relief.

You need to keep up with your stomach heartburn journal for a couple of weeks at least before you start to see patterns emerging. This is a long-term form of treatment instead of just taking a heartburn tablet and getting some instant relief. If you forget to make a record of an attack, don’t worry about it. Do the best you can do.

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