I am eight months into Gastritis.
I have seen several doctors at my local practice. They have examined me, sent me for blood tests, even an endoscopy. That’s all great, but the advice remains to just keep taking PPIs and wait it out. Nothing beyond the basics when it comes to dietary advice.
My flareups and their accompanying setbacks have been greatly reduced because I keep a megathread chat going with Gemini. I have pasted in a symptom diary, all my medications, and I check any alterations to my food or drink with it before they go anywhere near my mouth. I have thus avoided foods that are high FODMAP, slow digesting, or surprisingly high in fat or acidity.
This has really helped. I am trying to maintain my calories, so advice like “don’t risk X, increase Y instead” is immediate and actionable.
The presumption that asking a LLM is never a good choice assumes a health service where you can always get a doctor or dietician on the other end of the phone. In the UK, consultations with either for something non-urgent can take weeks, which is why people are usually pushed towards either asking a Pharmacist or going to the local Emergency department (which is often not so local these days).
So the _real_ choice is between the LLM and my best guess. And I haven’t ingested the open web, plus countless medical studies and journals.
My flareups and their accompanying setbacks have been greatly reduced because I keep a megathread chat going with Gemini. I have pasted in a symptom diary, all my medications, and I check any alterations to my food or drink with it before they go anywhere near my mouth. I have thus avoided foods that are high FODMAP, slow digesting, or surprisingly high in fat or acidity.
This has really helped. I am trying to maintain my calories, so advice like “don’t risk X, increase Y instead” is immediate and actionable.
The presumption that asking a LLM is never a good choice assumes a health service where you can always get a doctor or dietician on the other end of the phone. In the UK, consultations with either for something non-urgent can take weeks, which is why people are usually pushed towards either asking a Pharmacist or going to the local Emergency department (which is often not so local these days).
So the _real_ choice is between the LLM and my best guess. And I haven’t ingested the open web, plus countless medical studies and journals.