Must've loosened the hiatal hernia a bit. Mainly, made it easier to breathe and expand my diaphragm. Hanging/pull-up bar: This I accidentally found out slightly reduced my symptoms. Water/heel dropping: Never worked for me personally. This is not legitimate medical advice from a licensed physician. I am simply stating what has worked for me. I thought I would give you guys some feedback on my experience with these methods AND my own personal method which has helped me the most! It may not work for everyone. I have had a sliding hiatal hernia for what I estimate to be 11 years. But for most people the main symptom is acid reflux. As the only medication available for hiatal hernia is acid suppression medication I will probably have to undergo surgery at some point. My symptoms only consist of nausea, regurgitation of food and the occasional chest tightness. My hiatal hernia has never caused me acid reflux. The latter isn’t as popular.įunny you should ask this. But my motivation and concentration have definitely reduced from the minor depression and anxiety that is caused by its undesirable and prolific symptoms.Įndoscopy is the best way to diagnose a hiatal hernia and most common but specialized X-ray study is available that allows visualization of the esophagus and stomach. This condition in itself hasn’t caused cognitive impairment. I have a hiatal hernia that was diagnosed by endoscopy and I’ll answer your questions as best as possible. I know how horrible it is to live with a hiatal hernia. So give it a shot! And hopefully I will have helped some of you peeps. I don't know if I have pulled mine out completely, but I have drastically reduced my symptoms. As a warning, do not suck in your stomach and puff out your chest while doing any of these as it seems to have the reverse effect.
This seems to do a very good job of pulling the stomach down. One thing you can do is to make a pile of pillows on your bed and lay on it with your back, so, again, it arches your back backwards as much as possible, with the sternum being the peak of the arch.
Using this position, you stretch the upper belly area and chest as much as you can.Īny other thing you can do to stretch your upper midsection seems very beneficial. My modification to this technique is to hold on with both hands but have your feet on the ground and lean your mid-section all the way forwards, so your back is arched backwards as much as possible. When you do it, make sure you breathe all the way out and give it time to let your body stretch downwards. You may have also heard of this one(the exercises from here on out are best done on an empty stomach) if you have a pullup bar anywhere or somewhere you can hang from your hands, try holding on to it with one hand while relaxing your entire body, do both hands each, then both hands at the same time. You may have heard of the method of drinking a glass of water and dropping on on your heels to pull it down, however, if the hernia is larger, the upper thoratic stomach (the hernia) will have trouble being pulled down through the diaphragm. I have had a hiatal hernia for quite some time now, I was diagnosed during an endoscopy, and I have discovered some possible ways of pulling it down, that I have not seen online.