I had put thoughts of that gurgling sound behind me. Then sometime in March of 2009, after taking the kids to a school function, we had a late evening meal from McDonalds. I don't usually do fast food so this was a particularly high-fat, greasy meal for me and we were eating around 9pm, later than I would usually eat such a quantity of food. And when we got home I had a craving for peanut butter, so I had a slice of bread with lots of peanut butter. Then I felt like there was a golf ball in my throat. And there was pain radiating through my chest. While Tammy dialed 911, I took my blood pressure over and over. Each time it went up by about 10 points until it topped out around 200/100. Again to the ER at the heart hospital and again they said I had not had a cardiac event. Maybe it was an esophageal spasm.
By June I started having symptoms like reflux and I started regurgitating food. I would sometimes regurgitate food in the middle of the night. Waking up as food enters my mouth is a great disincentive for eating. My weight had been hovering in the mid 180s. My weight loss that extended through the end of 2009 started here.
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