Sideaffects - Acid Reflux

[Bigfoot1974]

I've been vaping for a few weeks now and love it. Its now been four days since I last had an analog. I really do enjoy vaping and believe that the flavors are great compared with smoking and I am just a fool for cool gadgets, got my Icon from puresmoker last thursday and thats when I completely gave up on analogs.

That said i am having one annoying sideaffect that I wanted to mention and wonder if anyone else is experiencing the same thing and might have some suggestions about how to remedy the sitiuation. I'm getting a slight bit of acid reflux. When I say a slight bit its more like an acidic feeling in the back of my throat that only feels bad down in my chest later in the evenings if at all.

I don't have any history of chronic acid reflux, just every now and then when I might have eaten something that didn't agree with me. I do drink alot of Mt. Dew and am thinking the mix of that and vaping might have something to do with it. I need to cut down on the Dew consumption but one thing at a time right.

Thanks for listening.

 

[WomanOfHeart]

Someone else had asked about this very same thing the other night and they were having a problem similar to yours. I've had just the opposite effect. I had horrible acid reflux before I started vaping and it's gone away since I started. Perhaps cutting down the amount of Dew you drink might help. Then again, maybe there's some Prilosec in your future!

 

[Tiari]

Try sipping more ice water while you vape, that helps me a lot as I get this issue as well. I find that juices that have sweetener added are the biggest offenders, as well as mints. (Menthol seems to be okay, just not mint). If your nic level is higher, try lowering it a bit as well.

 

[Beandip]

I already had a bit of a reflux problem, but it seems to have gotten worse since vaping.

 

[spirits3250]

When I was an analog smoker, the cigarettes stopped me from getting heartburn. Every time I quit analogs, I would get extreme acid reflux....one of the reasons I would start smoking again. When I started vaping and quit analogs, I experienced heartburn when I first started vaping, but after several months it has disappeared for the most part. I still get heartburn occasionally from vaping but not every day as I did before. I'm not sure why the heartburn decreased. I didn't really change anything as far as nic or flavor or pg/vg. Maybe at the beginning the heartburn came from analog withdrawal and now my system has acclimated to the vaping. Just a guess.

 

[SuZamme]

Are you vaping PG or VG or a mix? Some vapers find that one or the other doesn't work well in their system. I don't have a problem with either.

Are you drinking lots of water or just Mt. Dew?
When I started, I continued to use the coffee instead of adding more water. As soon as I drank more plain water, everything mellowed out.

Once those 4,000 chemicals got cleared out of my body and my mind got so in love with vaping it forgot about analogs, everything really mellowed and not problems of any kind.

Good luck on your journey. Sounds like you are off to great start with asking questions about your concerns.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Vaping. It gets better and better.

 

[kpax]

I have noticed this too. This is actually one of the first things I had a problem with when starting vaping. You may need to make some adjustments as stated above; that is the only thing that helped me. Unfortunately I did need to cut back from chain vaping also.
I don't think it it is a coincidence with the Mt Dew. Did you drink Mt Dew before and experience this? Do a search on "indigestion" and you will see many, many threads. I have prescription strength Zantac and that did not alleviate it for me so I had to adjust my vaping.
Good Luck.

 

[MarvelSlasher]

prilosec is your friend, i have been using it since i started vaping 8 months ago, take one in the morning and it should last all day. I also have stomach ulcers so yea i know all about acid reflux. =P

 

[Bigfoot1974]

I've been vaping 100% vg from Alien Visions. I tried some VG/PG mix I got as a sample with my Icon and still have the same problem. I have not added more water, I tend to live off of Dew, really bad habit that I intend to tackle soon. I'll try to drink more water and hope that helps. I'll continue to update on my progress. Thanks

 

[rolygate]

It seems from various reports that acid reflux can be a symptom of tobacco withdrawal for some people.

To get you through it I recommend Gaviscon liquid, it's about 1000 times more effective than over the counter pills like Rennies. I can eat two whole strips of those things and they don't make a blind bit of difference. Two swigs of Gaviscon and it's problem solved. It has some kind of seaweed extract or something that coats the gullet just above the stomach and stops the acid eating at you. Simple but so effective. Don't drink anything after you take the Gaviscon or you'll wash off the coating, if you need to rinse your mouth out then spit the water out. Yeah it's a bit slimy but that's the point.

Maybe the name will be different where you are, perhaps you can google it. I don't have shares but maybe I should...

 

[Mazunga]

Any time I've quit cigarettes for any reasonable amount of time, I get bad acid reflux for a few weeks or month. After vaping now for 3 weeks (no cigarettes in that time, smoked 5-7 per day up till I started vaping) heartburn is gone. It lasted about 10 days or so for me.

 

[dave8944]

Are you sure it is acid reflux? When I get too much nicotine in my system too fast I get a similar feeling in my chest. I would describe it as a "dirty" tight feeling in my chest, though I don't think it's exactly the same as acid reflux. What strength nicotine do you use? I got that feeling a lot when I was vaping 36mg liquid and got the stuff on my skin.

 

[Maast]

Odd, I've got BAD (on medications kind of bad) acid reflux and I've noticed I've actually had less of a reflux problem that I did before I switched to vaping. I'm not off my meds but its a lot better than it was.

 

[silkakc]

Certain flavors give me heartburn: some fruity ones and cinnamony ones The rest do not though

 

[NewLou]

I had terrible, chronic acid reflux before I switched from smoking to vaping. I still need to take Zantac occasionally, but it is more dependent on what I eat than it used to be. I am a compulsive (I was going to say "addicted") Diet Coke drinker, and have had to change that habit since I have started vaping. Here is what has helped me:

1) Almost ALL physical problems that I have had from vaping have been improved or completely cured by drinking much more water than I have been drinking.

2) Since caffeine is a diuretic, no beverage containing caffeine can count in my liquid intake for the day. To ween myself off of the Diet Coke, I have forced myself to drink twice as much water as I consume of Diet Coke.

3) Carbonated drinks always make acid reflux worse, so going with non-carbonated alternatives is better if I need/want caffeine (but I still need to drink at least twice as much water as the caffeinated beverage.)

I know how uncomfortable this problem is, but I also have found drinking more water than I think I need (and probably more than I would have wanted before I got used to it) has really helped me. I hope you find relief soon!

 

[Monda]

I have had this issues twice since switching to ecigs. Both times it followed me accidentally getting ejuice in my mouth and not getting it all spit out.

 

[spudboy]

Interesting. I experienced the opposite--- I got tons of heartburn while smoking analogs--- but now that I only vape I pretty much never get it or headaches which occured frequently as well. I guess every body is different (pun intended).