Best Amazon Prime Day deals: Mumsnet favourites

Best Amazon Prime Day deals:
Mumsnet favourites

Shop now

Please or to access all these features

General health

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

H pylori treatment

1 reply

QueenBanrigh · 05/12/2020 22:29

Hi all, I posted twice about this before. I took my antibiotics and today is my last day of them. I have stopped vomiting and I am now eating again. However, I asked my GP if she would retest me to see if H pylori is gone and she point-blank refused and told me 99% of people are better and if i get sick again then i'll know... but I do not want to wait for myself to get sick again and I don't want it to be even worse than now... did anyone else not get retested and were fine?

OP posts:
TheSilentStars · 06/12/2020 23:07

I think they don't retest routinely because (iirc) you might get false positives.
I was retested in the August when I'd had the antibiotics in April because I still didn't feel right- I still had it so had another round of antibs. That seemed to clear it (though I was never retested) the GP did say that if I was still positive after the second lot of antibs I'd have to learn to live with it and just take omeprazole forever which I was a bit Hmm about.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page