Hi Everyone,

I am new to the site and am seeking some advice. I have Thoracic Degenerative Disc Disease, it is from repetitive stress related to my job. Unfortuately I cannot get away from the type of bending I do since I am quite tall and most things I work with don't take this into account or are not very ergonomically friendly. I am hoping to stay at my job. I was on Viox at one time until it was no longer available and it was the only thing that seemed to work for me. My doctor has tried many different things but I have gastro-esophageal reflux and also cannot take meds that cause constipation so am very limited. I have read a lot about Arnica but are there other natural pain /anti-inflammatory drugs that would be effective and not upset my stomach or cause constipation? I have also tried physio and am seeing a chiropractor along with massage therapy but not responding. I am at a loss, any help would be appreciated.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, that's a surgical condition once the pathology has advanced that far.

They call that acid-reflux disease now, but we've always called it constriction or stricture of the esophagus because that's what it is. The cardiac orifice at the juncture of the esophagus and stomach is a ring of _______ muscles. (I can't ever remember that damn word! It so rarely comes up, though. I think it's "circular" muscles, but I don't have time to look it up.) It is supposed to flex and relax as needed to keep the stomach's acids out of the esophagus and yet open up for the passage of boluses of food -- and it's so amazing that we can actually swallow standing on our heads -- but it doesn't in some people. Gastric acids strong enough to dissolve a copper penny thus ooze up into the esophagus when people lay down or burp. It burns like Hell and is constant. They literally can't eat because the cardiac orifice won't open. Allopaths then stick this tool down their throats and physically stretch those muscles. This is cure? No, that's typical allopathy. Patients describe both the burning and the procedure in agonal terms. The below link lists some of those people, for their remedy describes their mentality and everything about them. For example, Hitler needed Anacardium orientale. Snap your fingers, it's that fast we all know important things about that drug's mentality (odd expression, huh?), and it's like that with all of them so long as those are accurate homeopathic prescriptions.

The allopathic fix for that is ghastly. In the United States, that's called a gastroduodenoscopy, but patients call it Rotto Rootering of their throat, and it becomes called for every six months. It links with heart disease, and many patients with both conditions die because those gastrointestinal pains bring on a heart attack. Likewise, many patients so troubled also have gastric ulcers, but antibiotics neutralize that additional complication of such complex conditions.

Incidentally, antibiotics are the only effective allopathic drugs (of course, that's pitifully just 0.01% of all deadly illnesses in industrialized countries), which have inherent and insoluble problems we don't face with homeopathics (our drugs), but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with taking antibiotics so long as they're not abused. Specifically, allopathic protocols call for a "course" of antibiotics, meaning a particular length of time, but I've found that even just one or two doses does the trick since my organism works well. I advise that application, too, so long as one knows what they're doing.

Link: KENT0465. Lots of drugs prove to be remedies in symptom complexes that include that disease-diagnostic category, but Phosphorus perhaps ranks highest for unknown reasons. Phosphorus is also, incidentally, one of several hundred drugs that's called for in heart disease.

That's only one symptom, though, and it's not an uncommon one, either, so it's probably no go for you this way. You'll need someone to prescribe for you long term, dear. Where are you?

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