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As a side sleeper with GERD. It's accurate as fuck. Before I found a medication that worked properly, I always slept on my left side.
Thankfully Omeprazole keeps me from choking on my own acid now, but yeah, that sucks.
My wife has GERD but she can only take omeprazole for a certain period of time and has to take time off from it, though I forget the reason for it
It can tank your B12 and other nice things your body needs. At the end of the day, I
Your bones. It's not good for osteoporosis IIRC.
I just take it once a week and it keeps it in check. Before I started, I would wake up every night literally drowning in stomach acid and unable to breathe. When I first started taking it, I was taking it daily, but I always felt REALLY bloated, like I was going to explode. I cut off of it and found that the effect lasted for a week or more, and I started just taking it once a week, and I've been fine ever since.