Published on 12, July, 2020
I have been doing a lot of reading about this recently, and I am finding more and more that there are potentially significant links between people with autism and people who have gastrointestinal (GI) issues such as gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
I am a 32 year old male. I have suffered from acid reflux my whole life due to being born with a hiatus hernia. I am medicated for it, and I have been told that I will always be on medication for it due to the severity of my condition. It gets worse with stress, sleeping in a different position, changes in diet... all sorts of things can trigger it to be worse.
Does anyone else, formally or self-diagnosed with autism, have any issues like this?
I have Barrett's oesophagus.
I have that too, as a result of my acid reflux. I was diagnosed with that at 20.
Do you have other GI issues?
Not that I'm aware of,but I've never tried anything like an elimination diet..
That is certainly something that I have experienced in the past.
Does anything in particular trigger that for you?
Does chronically going from constipation to the opposite end of things count as such?