emeprazole

[candyfluff]

any one on these ?
they are making me feel sick and jittery ,or is it just me ?

HelenHighwater .. if you are getting recurrent thrush. have you been to docs with it

thanks alypaly, that's really helpful!

unfortunately my gp does not monitor me. i haven't been seen for probably 3 years. he has never suggested stopping it, although gaviscon is a waste of money for me. only thing that helped was zantac but i was going through about 6 a day.

Yes I've been to gp. Not partner related. No diabetes

More recently doc gave me 2 week course in case fungal infection living elsewhere. Only really started after having ds and always before period so he seems to think hormone related and I may just have to live with it unfortunately

warthog have you had a test for diabetes..are you thirsty alot. If you get thrush more than three times in quick succession you pharmacist is supposed to advise u t c GP.

Have you tried treating your partner as unfortunately they carry the fungus under their foreskin and they are nearly always asymptomatic, but they re infect you. worth treating him with fluconazole capsules as well.
cant be nice for you getting it all the time but i doubt its linked to omeprazole as it is not your gastro intestinal tract

Oh yes I've been tested for diabetes and dp has been treated as I'm aware men are usually asymptomatic.

Gp said I have done everything right but is scratching his head about it and all he can think of is hormones.

Thanks for info about the tablets anyway. I think I'll try and get off them for a while myself.

eh? thrush? i have acid reflux. no thrush. not thirsty all the time, not tested for diabetes but think am low risk...

I am on 40mg omeprazole after a an acute 'episode' involving paramedics etc a month ago. No-one is sure what the problem is and to be honest they haven't helped my pain much (although to be fair I don't know how bad it would be if I wasn't taking them).

I have had lots of boods taken and my liver function tests were found to be way out plus a raised sedimentation rate suggesting infection somewhere. I have now been referred to a gastroenterologist, booked in for a gall bladder and liver scan and had repeat bloods taken (I will get the results of the repeat bloods next Monday).

I have done a fair bit of research online and my concern is that its actually the omeprazole that is causing the liver problem and the stomach/epigastric episode was something different entirely.

I had a red hot rash that came up on my face and neck within half an hour of taking my pill for the first two days (gp said to persevere as I am breastfeeding and can't take anything else ) and have had awful insomnia since I've been on them, which is making life very tough with it being the summer holidays and having 3 dcs to take care of.

I have been on omeprazole before, after experiencing a similar episode a few years ago, but was on a much lower dose and didn't have any side effects that time.

So, sorry I've been rambling haven't I. In response to your question candyfluff imho I think it is quite possible that your symptoms are down to the omeprazole. In my experience I think the 40mg pills seem to hit the body a lot harder than the lower dose pills. I would definitely go back to your GP and ask either to split the dose or try an alternative such as lansoprazole.

'maybe its your gall bladder and not acid. what are your symptom'

symptoms are hideous burning acid coming up my throat all the time and burning pain in my tummy. I can taste the acid and my eosophagus hurts.
Barium meal showed no obvious haitus hernia and H.pylori tests are negative.
I have to take rennie and gavisocn and have done for 20 years. I'd give anything to br free of acid reflux
I follow all the advice and have tried ranitidine, omeprazole, reglan and a few other things. Nothing works

HelenHighwater only do it if your gp says so...please dont take my word for it. Has he done a swab to find out what bug is causing it,as that is really simple and conclusive.

warthog 6 ranitidine /Zantac sounds like an awfully high dosage...what strength were they?Ranitidone is a H2 receptor antagonist which is different from a prtoton pump inhibitor like omeprazole and lansoprazole. They have the same end result but work in different ways. ranitidine works best when taken at night.

HelenHighwater you dont have to live with it...it can be treated if you find the right consultant gynae

moosemama i had one of those episodes about 4 months ago. Thought it was really bad heartburn ,which wouldnt go away. got worse whilst i was on the phone to my BF and then i told him i thought i was having a heart attack. He told me to call the ambulance as i had collapsed on the floor with the pain. They took me to hospital and kept me in overnight to do proper tests for heart attack. After morphine the pain subsided and disappeared. I felt a complete fraud until they scanned me a few weeks later and told me that my gall bladder was absolutely full of stones. It accounts for an episode of pancreatitis 2 years earlier which made me seriously ill. I dont drink alot so i new it wasnt alcohol related,but my consultant said it was probably a small stone that had escaped into my pancreatic duct from the gall bladder. Really worrying as pancreatitis can be fatal and i was in agony. it took 2 years to find out the cause and gps saying "oh its IBs or stress" . If your amylase comes back raised it is related to gall bladder and pancreas.so get checked. I reckon its saved me from being seriously ill having my gall bladder removed....no more episodes

alypaly, it was the normal zantac you can buy otc in the uk. don't know the dosage i'm afraid. my reflux does get very bad!

I was on Lansoprazole and had really bad stomach cramps and diarrhoea. I couldn't tolerate it at all.

My GP has told me to take omeprazole long term (if necessary- and if the h.pylori doesn't get zapped by the latest round of antibs)
I don't take them all the time though- as I doubt anything is good for you long term...
If I get cramps I take something called kolanticon gel- not nearly as well known (marketed??) as gaviscon, but seems to work for me much better.

I just want something that will stop this awful acide reflux. 20 years is too long

warthog the maximum daily dose is 300mg and the otc version is 75mg so if you were taking 6 you were taking more then the recommended therapeutic dose. You were tainkg 450mg........

thankyou all for your good advice and having looked at the websites regarding helicobacter pylori i think it all rings true for me.
im going back to my gp thses tablets making me feel really sick.
going to ask him to split the dose or try something else- am glad that my constant sore throat is better though.

i took something called gastrocote to help with mine before gall bladder op and they were fantastic but they dont mess so much with all the ph balance. they are about £8 a bottle or you can get then on prescription,but u can buy if u want to try first

Hi alypaly, interesting, the episode you had does sound very similar. I was rushed to a&e and put on morphine the first time it happened (7 years ago) but this time it had begun to subside when the paramedics arrived and they were very dismissive and rude. (All 3 GPs I've seen since then have said I should put in a complaint about them as I was obviously seriously ill even several days afterwards.) I lost a stone in the four days following the attack and am still losing a couple of pounds every few days (every cloud huh!? .

I only know one other person that has had something similar and she was told it was most likely oesophageal spasm.

My GP told me my symptoms are all wrong for gallbladder but they will be checking for it anyway. Back for yet more bloods this afternoon.

Riven if you've had acid reflux for that long they really need to do something about it as long term erosion of the oesophagus can lead to more serious problems and permanent damage to the tissue. My dh's aunt has just had an op to tighten the sphincter at the top of her stomach/bottom of her oesophagus after years of suffering with reflux and it has literally changed her life. First thing I would do is ask for a referral to a gastro consultant who would probably have a look into your stomach with a camera and take it from there. Don't let them fob you off, 20 years is far to long to have suffered.

moosemama ,i lost 18 lbs with mine and i felt like i wa going to pass away. I was loosing a pound a day even after my op....like u say every cloud....
I had all the tests for oesophageal spasm, camera down throat, barium meal and the docs kept sending me home... i felt like a real hypochondriac.
The classic thing with passing a gall stone is horrendous pain ( i got the sweats and was vomting with it) which is rel..ieved with morphine and it normally subsides to absolutely nothing within a 2 hour period) it honestly makes u feel a real fraud in hospital as the docs are there giving u aspirin, GTN sparys under tongue...which obviously dont work. Get a blood test a see if amylase is raised,it shud be between 90 and 120 units...if it is higher than that then you could have a problem...also the liver enzymes go a bit haywire too.
Try and avoid all fatty foods,including eggs and see if it helps, because if it is your gall bladder..anything with fat in it makes it work harder and could bring on another episode. Also if you have got gall stnes you wil not be digesting fat properly...hence weight loss and to be blunt i found gall stones made wind really smelly and poo too (sorry TMI)

Riven i saw the op for that sphicter procedure on the telly,and it changed the persons life. But i would get a gall bladder scan for stones first as you may have 100's of small ones that just niggle all the time...I did. And it took 3 years and a bout of pancreatitis to finally get the proper dignosis... bloody doctors... the symptoms for gall stones are so obvious..dont know why it gets misdiagnosed so frquently...IBS stress hypochondria...live with it...acid...why did they qualify. When you read some of the posts on people with problems and they say they have pain in their right shoulderalong with tummy pain...this is a classic symptom as there is a nerve from gal bladder to shoulder...why dont gp's recognise this....go back to med school rather than playing with our lives...it nearly cost me mine with pancreatitis

Thanks alypaly, they are checking amylase in the run of tests I will be getting the results for on Monday.

My poo is still totally normal, and no smelly wind, although I have read that both of those symptoms are common with gallstones. The pain is pretty central and when the gp pressed my solar plexus I nearly shot through the roof. I don't have pain in my shoulder or on my right side anywhere either. I have also tested negative for helicobacter.

I suppose I will just have to wait for my scan appointment and take it from there really.

I know what you mean about feeling like a hypochondriac. The paramedics were so rude and dismissive they made me feel like a real fraud despite the fact that they had been delayed by 25 minutes and that 10 minutes before they arrived I had been in screaming agony with crushing chest pain, high fever, rigours, retching etc etc. They tried to do a did an ecg but I had the rigours so badly they couldn't get a reading because of the shaking and I still couldn't get enough breath to speak! Then they said "its probably indigestion, we could take you to hospital but if you don't go you'll have to sign a form"! Like I wouldn't know the difference between a bit of indigestion and what I had just been through! Obviously I wasn't going to go to hospital then though, as they had made me feel like an idiot who was making a fuss about nothing and I just wanted to curl up and sleep.

My poor dh was stood in the corner holding my 7 month old dd throught the whole thing and scared to death that I was going to die in front of him before the paramedics even got there. He was still in shock when they arrived and as a result failed to defend me when I couldn't speak for myself.

It was a horrible, horrible experience and so different from the first time it happened. At that time I lived in Lancashire and was rushed to A&E, treated with the utmost concern and dignity, given morphine for the pain and totally respected and listened to. Couldn't have be more different really.

hi moosemama - how do they check for helicobacter?

mpaoosemama .....pain in the shoulder is only one of the myriad of symptoms.. not everyone gets this.If you have pain when solar plexus is depressed you may well have an infected gall bladder. You dont necessarily have to have stones for an infected gall bladder, it can just become diseased.
funnily enuf thats exactly what the paramedics said to me after one of my episodes. You feel like u r wasting their time when the pain starts to ease dont you.the paramedics i had werent dismissive of me they were actuallly quite nice..but my gp and some of the hospital doctors made me feel a if i just come for the morphine trip.They really do have a bad bedside manner.After 3 years and my recent gall bladder removal ,several hospital visits and hundreds of tests i now feel like getting my gall bladder and rubbing it in their faces....and saying" i told you i was ill".
You know your own body better than they do and you know when there is something wrong.But if your abdo is so tender i reckon you have got stones in gall bladder, pancreato-biliary duct or a simmering infection. dont take no for an answer becos if you get a small stone lodged in the pancreas as i did,believe me it is pain like you have never experienced b4...10 times worse than childbirth