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Concerned with Acid Reflux, Barrett's Oesophagus, associated conditions, treatments and management. Website: Barretts.org.uk and DownWithAcid.org.uk

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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 18h
The world says it is time for America to replace Trump as leader
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I only remain on X as some people still follow us there: I post about once a week but apparently I have broken their rules and been suspended. My most recent posts were: 1. Herbal remedy "RefluxCare" does not repair Barrett's (today) 2. Has Trump had read Revelation 13, 3-8 (last week)
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Does Trump's Bible contain Revelation 13 vs 3-8? "And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months." How much longer still to run? www.bible.com/bible/1/REV....
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Bible - Bible App
Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THIS IS NONSENSE! Ridiculous advert which I didn't open, suggests LPR somehow avoids the oesophagus! 48% of women, 22% of men with Barrett's don't get heartburn (2023 survey of 200). LPR is described here: sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Unusual symptoms (that could be reflux): That pain behind the eyes can be sinusitis from aspirated refluxate. You don't need expensive sinus rinses. Snorting clean drinking water can help. See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unusual symptoms. Ringing, drumming or buzzing sounds in your ear? Tinnitus can be caused by reflux. See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our parents' association bought half a dozen for the school. I often ended up with them all, plus my own 2, in use and my children were the first to send an email to another school using Prestel, in the days before the internet, which led us to being featured on TV AM in February 1984.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can relate to that. Reading "1983" and the teacher who brought in his own ZX Spectrum. That was me. I was teaching then and took in my Spectrum. And then there's so much more I identify with, reading it is a nostalgia fest.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unusual symptoms. Dry and gritty eyes can be a symptom of extra-oesophageal reflux. "Studies showed a correlation between GERD/LPR and ocular discomfort," sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unusual symptoms. Smell burnt toast but it's only your imagination? Phantosmia can be a symptom of extra-oesophageal reflux. sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 10. Barrett's isn't that rare. According to research, probably 1 person in every 20 actually has it, though only 1 in 20 of them know. drive.google.com/file/d/1-1fF...
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X How common is Barrett's.odt
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 9. PPIs do not cause osteoporosis. During child-bearing years, oestrogen protects women's bones and protects against acid refux. As they lose oestrogen, they may start PPIs for acid reflux. See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Oestrogen
Oestrogen helps protect the oesophagus against acid erosion. The purpose of this is probably protection during pregnancy when acid reflux is more likely to occur as the growing foetus pushes the stoma...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 8. Various studies notice a correlation between PPI use and dementia. However, when studies look for a connection, they find none. Dementia is found in older people; they are more likely to use PPIs. It's an umbrella conundrum.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 7. It used to be thought PPI induced hypochlorhydria meant malabsorption of essential minerals but they are absorbed in the duodenum, not the stomach. PPIs don't cause anaemia. See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - PPI safety
Proton Pump Inhibitors are amongst the most prescribed drugs in the world but how safe are they? Controversy over long term medication
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Navigating around a tricky spot (where I should have dismounted) a few weeks ago, my heavy panier made me lose balance and fall grazing my elbow requiring a visit to the drop-in centre who were keen to ascertain it was an e-bike I was riding at the time, though it had no bearing on the accident!
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 6. If you have Barrett's, you still need PPIs once oesophagitis has healed. They can reduce cancer risk by inducing apoptosis in mutating cells. See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Reducing Cancer risk
Oesophageal AdenoCarcinoma is invariably a mutation of cells of Barrett's Oesophagus.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 5. Anti-reflux surgery does not reduce risk of cancer. Barrett's cells remain and can still mutate. sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Surgery & Cancer risk
This is updated from a page originally provided by Barrett's Wessex charity.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 4. Barrett's doesn't change into cancer over time. Its cells can mutate like any other cell but PPIs help reduce the risk. sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Reducing Cancer risk
Oesophageal AdenoCarcinoma is invariably a mutation of cells of Barrett's Oesophagus.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 3. Barrett's Oesophagus is not a disease. There is nothing to cure. It is the permanent addition of acid resistant cells to the lower oesophagus to protect against erosion. sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Barrett's Oesophagus
A perceived possible progression Acid Reflux -> Oesophagitis -> Barrett's Oesophagus -> Oesophageal cancer Acid refluxing into the oesophagus may wash aside the mucous lining and attack the squamous c...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Things people get wrong (even some doctors)! 2. Acid suppressant medicines (e.g. PPIs) do not stop reflux. They only stop acid. Reflux must be controlled by lifestyle modifictions as described here: sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Reflux remedies
To prevent reflux naturally. Think of the stomach as a balloon full of liquid. The Lower Oesophageal Sphincter should hold the neck tight shut. However, for some people it doesn't work as well as it s...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They erected one amidst war damaged walls near Southampton Station but it doesn't have the same view through it. (Picture from Google Maps)
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Things people get wrong (eve some doctors)! 1. Trigger foods don't cause reflux. (Some may cause heartburn in some people.) Learn about reflux here: sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Down With Acid - Reflux explained
Reflux is the backflow of anything through a sphincter, which acts like a valve in the human body. There are around 60 sphincters in the human body, six of which are part of the digestive tract but th...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Since stopping my statins, my swallowing has improved and my chest pain (stitch type that becomes angina if I ignore it) is absent. Might my micro-vascular dysfunction have been from aspirated microparticulates that resolving my cricopharyngeal dysfunction has solved?
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I stopped taking statins a few weeks ago and now my cricopharyngeal dysfunction appears to ave improved. I can swallow again. And I found this study; pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (12/60 members on statins in the FB group also notice reduced motility.)
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A tough pill to swallow: Two cases of statin-induced necrotizing autoimmune myopathy manifesting as dysphagia and transaminitis
Although 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are well tolerated, a small subset of patients may develop autoimmune myopathy, classified as immune-mediated necrotizing...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A member of our Facebook group is running in next year's London Marathon to raise funds for @OPA charity. He is looking for sponsors here: 2027tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/phil-miller
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Phil’s Road from Recovery to 26.2
Running the London Marathon for OPA Cancer Charity ❤️ In 2027, I’ll be taking on the London Marathon to raise money for OPA Cancer Charity, with a fundraising target of £2,000 — although I’m hoping to
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not in UK but if you search for Lake America, it takes you to Lake Ontario.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Did you know reflux can affect your eyes? See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's not just heartburn! From surveys conducted in 2023 with 200 refluxers who had developed the potentially pre-cancerous condition, Barrett's Oesophagus, 48% of women and 22% of men did not experience heartburn, whence it may be called "Silent Reflux". www.academia.edu/105279189/Id...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's not just heartburn! "Even once he’d developed an unexplained cough and had lost interest in food, doctors continued saying the cough was nothing to worry about." "Dan died six weeks after the diagnosis" www.gbnews.com/health/cance...
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Widow shares warning signs of cancer that killed husband, 42, six weeks after diagnosis
The Briton was dismissed by doctors for months despite taking daily antacids and suffering from a persistent cough
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In last week, many new members realising tinnitus, dizziness, hearing problems, earache etc due to their reflux. It also affects throat, mouth, nose. See sites.google.com/view/down-wi...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How about police issuing a "Verified Legal" sticker when they have their "register it" stalls?
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Having written factual texts, I decided to try my hand at fiction. It is not easy. I did complete one book and paid to have a few copies professionally printed but gave up when trying a couple of sequels. For me, it was easier compiling an encyclopaedia on a subject I've studied.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I live in part of Southampton called Bitterne - but unfortunately it's not named after the bird but two turns of the river.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Taking a statin break because: 1. Restless legs worse 2. LDL never high in summer 3. No heart problem (confirmed by cardio) 4. Only "stroke" was minor lacunar infarq caused by angiogram Should I tell my doctor? Also this: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Statin discontinuation in older adults: changing the conversation, not the default
Few questions in preventive cardiology are more common, or more difficult to address, than deciding when preventive therapy should be stopped. For adults who reach their late seventies after years of ...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I used to donate blood, then one day, for some reason I don't remember now, I was tested (negatively) for polycythemia. Although the test was negative, the fact they'd tested for it meat they said I couldn't donate any more. How can having had a blood test that showed nothing be bad?
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The power of charities together. In 2020, Wales got RFA (to remove Barrett's mutating to cancer) thanks to Barrett's Wales charity. Now, an easier way to detect Barrett's and cancer thanks to HCUK charity. nation.cymru/news/pill-on...
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‘Pill-on-a-thread’ cancer screening trial rolled out to Welsh communities
Mark Mansfield People who suffer from long-term heartburn, indigestion or acid reflux are being invited to take part in a cancer screening trial using a pioneering “pill-on-a-thread” test. The BEST4 S...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"I am happy to be in this group could already get a lot of information for me Information that I would not get from the doctor" www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"When I was diagnosed last January, I immediately went to a dark place. What good fortune to find this group ... Always calming us and there with nothing but helpful info." www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'd say there's a strong case for use of technology in elementary school classrooms. In 1982 I introduced 6 computers to my class of 9 and 10 year olds. Years later a number of them are running their own tech companies.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"I am most grateful for this group. You get more help and suggestions here than from the medical profession. You have helped me understand my barratts [sic] a lot more" www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Is there anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere below the arctic circlel that isn't experiencing excess temperatures and wildfires?
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is a very informative group. Keep up the great work you all do. Thanks [x] for all the information you have passed on to me since I was diagnosed with Barrett’s in 2019. www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"I don’t know what I would do if I hadn’t found this group I was at such a low point when I was diagnosed last year I was terrified." www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"massive future things to do with corruption are appening now" ??!! Time travel?
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
i am so thanksful for this group because it is easy to feel so isolated in time of need so thank you. www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Big Brother is watching you.
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"This group and the knowledge you have shared with us has lessened the amount of stress that I was experiencing from my diagnosis of Barrette's. I'm very thankful I found this group." www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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Barrett's Support @barrettssupport.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"I appreciate ALL the research and Info you share. All of the moderators have helped me to understand and how to enjoy my life." www.facebook.com/groups/barre...
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