Lansoprazole and Linx operation
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After a long wait I have finally had the new Linx operation to control my severe acid reflux. This is the 5th day after the operation and the swelling has gone down and I am feeling much better but still a long way to go. I have been told it will be about 10 weeks before I can say that I am "back to normal" but I can live with that if it means.....no more Lansoprazole and their evil side effects. It has never ceased to amaze me that a tablet is prescribed for acid reflux that can cause severe heart palpitations, terrible cramps, breathlessness and hair loss all because they suppress the absorbsion of vitamins and magnessium. Magnessium is needed for the absorbsion of calcium so our bodies end up being short of calcium and this is turn affects our bones and it is a known fact that PPI's can cause brittle bones. Unfortunately I had all of the above symptoms, in some way being female, the worst was loosing my hair, but thankfully I was seeing a brilliant consultant in Glasgow and he offered me the chance of having the operation. So, here's hoping everything goes on the way it is and in 10 weeks I will have forgotten what it was like having to take tables every day.
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AmandaFA avis
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I am so glad that I've just read your forum page. I have been on Lansoprazole since January for acid reflux problems. I am too went through a phase of having palpitations and breathlessness which still happens now and again and my doctor put it down to stress/anxiety. Did you have these symptoms since you started the medication and how long was you on it for? Have you ever tried to come off it before and if so what happened? I just take 1 30mg tablet a day ans its the type that melts on my tongue because I cannot swallow tablets since all of this as my main issue was a lump in the throat feeling! Are you able to eat solid foods yet aftet the operation?
Thanks for your forum input and for the information a great help.
Hope that you continue to recover well.
Amanda.
avis AmandaFA
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I was on Lansoprazole for 10 years and was constantly trying to juggle them so that I could control the acid but avoid the side effects.....very difficult. I also had the lump in the throat feeling, I insisted on going to the hospital for a check up and it turned out to be acid burn in my throat! The side effects started not long after my Doctor put me on the tablets and like you I was told it was every and anything but the tablets to blame but then I went on the internet and found that I was not the only one trying to cope with these unwanted side effects. If I stopped taking them I could only go for about 8 days and then the acid returned with a vengance so I kept trying. Then I heard about a consultant in Glasgow and asked to be referred to him and he is the one responsible for me having this new operation where a band of titanium beads with positive and negative magnets inserted into each end of the titanium beads, it apparently looks a little like a tiny necklace. This is inserted and wrapped around the base of the esophagus and when food passes down the magnetics field breaks and allow the food into the stomach then connects again stopping any acid from escaping. It will about 10 weeks before I can eat a "normal" diet but at the moment the only item I can't eat is meat as it is too "hard". I am a semi solid diet and I have to chew thoroughly and sip water all through my meal. I can live with that if the end result is everything I hear. I get my staples out tomorrow and that will help.
Avis
AmandaFA avis
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Thanks for getting back to me. You are the only person that has experienced the same symptoms as me! So its very useful us being in touch if you don't mind me picking your brains ha, ha! When did you start with the lump in the throat feeling and what tests have you had done for it? I started in December so mine wasn't long ago. It all started when I was put on some uncoated steriod tablets with two different types of antibiotics when I had a chest infection and an ear infection and I too have asthma and I staterted with bad heartburn so was put on Omeprazole which helped at first then after 10 days on that I stopped it - big mistake as I then had a day of bad acid reflux and could feel it coming up to my throat, two days after thatn my throat as so bad I could hardly get water down and felt like I had severe tonsilitus. I was then put on omeprazole tablets that melted in water which helped for about a week and then my throat flared up again and think it was cetain medications that didn't help as my throat must have been burnt badly and was very sensitive. Then mid-january my doctor started me on Lansoprazole the ones that melt on your tongue and it has very slowly got a bit better since then, well I used to have a continuous feeling of a lump in my throat but that has done now its just when I was swallow now and then now but through January I was mainly on water and lost alot of weight! I am now still mainly on liquids but I am slowly introducing soft wet foods when Im feeling ok.
Did you struggled with eating foods with your throat too and did Lansopraozle help with the acid problem, although you have side effects? How did you know its the tablets that cause the side effects, do you feel better now that you have come off them?
Also is the operation a way where you definitely won't need medication anymore?
Sorry for all the questions! Thanks for your help and hope that it goes ok having your stiches out.
Amanda.
avis AmandaFA
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Hi Amanda
No problem. The feeling that I had a lump in my throat started about 2 years ago and I was sent to the ENT department at the hospital. There I had a camera put down my throat (Not very nice) and it was found that I had severe burning and scare tissue from the acid reflux. I was told that there was very little that could be done unless the acid could be stopped so in this instance the tablets were innocent. All the other symptoms though were down to them and there was no way I could come off them for good as after 8 days I was literally in agony with acid burn and then yes I had to be very careful what I ate because food would feel like it was raking my throat. Apparently my back teeth were also a
shuanger avis
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I'm a guy suffered GERD these days, 28 years old, from China. In my country, there is no LINX surgery in any hospital. I saw you accepted this surgery 7 months ago, could you share some experience in these months, especially
the benefits after the LINX surgery, and the side effects, it may help me and my friends with GERD who want accept the LINX. thank you very much!!
avis shuanger
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The operation has been very successful. I can now eat anything I want without any acid reflux. Very, very occassionally I get a feeling like something is stuck down by the band that has been fitted but I have been reassured by my specialist that this can happen for the first twelve months so as it only happens maybe once or twice a week I am not too bothered. I know that there are only about 8/9 hospitals in the UK that offer this operation so I was very lucky to be in the area of The Royal Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland when the NHS decided to allow my specialist to trial it and even more lucky that he asked if I would like to be the first person in Scotland to have the operation. I can only say that I believe that the discomfort and weigh loss (through not being able to eat as much) is well worth going through to feel this well and I would recommend this procedure to anyone able to have it carried out.
lorray64454 avis
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